让强化学习决策更懂情绪、更负责任,避免不恰当干预。
Towards Emotionally Intelligent and Responsible Reinforcement Learning
- 将情绪与伦理约束融入强化学习决策过程,构建受约束的马尔可夫决策模型。
- 通过多目标奖励函数平衡短期参与度与长期用户福祉,提升干预安全性。
- 适用于心理健康、数字治疗等需要共情和责任的个性化系统。
医疗与行为支持中的个性化决策系统常依赖静态规则或仅追求用户参与度的启发式方法,忽视用户情绪状态与伦理限制,可能在严重心理疾病、物质滥用或抑郁等场景中推荐不敏感甚至危险的干预措施。为此,本文提出一种负责任强化学习(RRL)框架,将情感与情境理解、伦理考量融入序列决策过程。RRL将个性化建模为约束马尔可夫决策过程(CMDP),在优化参与度与依从性的同时,确保情绪一致性与伦理安全。引入多目标奖励函数,显式权衡短期行为参与度与长期用户福祉;设计情绪感知的状态表示,捕捉情绪准备度、情感状态及风险波动。该架构可适配任意强化学习算法(如DQN、PPO),并加入安全约束或拉格朗日正则化。该框架在机器学习策略优化中实现了共情与责任,连接了安全强化学习、情感计算与负责任AI。论文讨论其在行为健康、教育、数字治疗等以人为中心领域的应用前景,并提出基于仿真的验证路径。旨在推动面向情绪智能与可信个性化的伦理对齐强化学习的方法论对话。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Personalized decision systems in healthcare and behavioral support often rely on static rule-based or engagement-maximizing heuristics that overlook users' emotional context and ethical constraints. Such approaches risk recommending insensitive or unsafe interventions, especially in domains involving serious mental illness, substance use disorders, or depression. To address this limitation, we propose a Responsible Reinforcement Learning (RRL) framework that integrates emotional and contextual understanding with ethical considerations into the sequential decision-making process. RRL formulates personalization as a Constrained Markov Decision Process (CMDP), where the agent optimizes engagement and adherence while ensuring emotional alignment and ethical safety. We introduce a multi-objective reward function that explicitly balances short-term behavioral engagement with long-term user well-being, and define an emotion-informed state representation that captures fluctuations in emotional readiness, affect, and risk. The proposed architecture can be instantiated with any RL algorithm (e.g., DQN, PPO) augmented with safety constraints or Lagrangian regularization. Conceptually, this framework operationalizes empathy and responsibility within machine learning policy optimization, bridging safe RL, affective computing and responsible AI. We discuss the implications of this approach for human-centric domains such as behavioral health, education, and digital therapeutics, and outline simulation-based validation paths for future empirical work. This paper aims to initiate a methodological conversation about ethically aligned reinforcement learning for emotionally aware and trustworthy personalization systems.
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