arXiv:2512.17373cs.AI2025-12

AI可自主发现可演化的概念,通过信息结构与动态竞争实现无监督认知。

Dialectics for Artificial Intelligence

  • 将概念视为经验中的信息结构,依赖可逆性约束防止脱离实际。
  • 用冗余度衡量概念拆分合理性,驱动自然概念的形成与演化。
  • 提出概念竞争机制,支持跨智能体低成本对齐与传播。

人工智能能否从原始经验中无监督地发现人类已知的概念?挑战在于人类概念本身是流动的:概念边界会随探究进展而变化(如冥王星不再被视为行星)。为推进研究,需定义一种非字典式的“概念”——即可被修订、比较与对齐的结构。我们提出算法信息论视角,将概念视为仅通过其与智能体整体经验的结构关系定义的信息对象。核心约束为“决定性”:一组部分构成可逆一致性关系,即任意缺失部分可由其余部分恢复(允许标准对数松弛,符合柯尔莫哥洛夫式恒等式)。该可逆性防止“概念”脱离经验,使概念存在成为可验证的结构性断言。为判断分解是否自然,引入“超额信息”度量,衡量将经验拆分为多个独立描述部分所引入的冗余开销。在此基础上,我们将辩证过程形式化为优化动力学:当新信息片段出现(或被争议)时,竞争性概念通过更短的条件描述来解释它们,推动系统性的扩展、收缩、分裂与合并。最后,我们通过小规模基底/种子形式化低成本概念传输与多智能体对齐,使另一智能体能在共享协议下重建相同概念,将通信转化为具体的计算-比特权衡。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Can artificial intelligence discover, from raw experience and without human supervision, concepts that humans have discovered? One challenge is that human concepts themselves are fluid: conceptual boundaries can shift, split, and merge as inquiry progresses (e.g., Pluto is no longer considered a planet). To make progress, we need a definition of "concept" that is not merely a dictionary label, but a structure that can be revised, compared, and aligned across agents. We propose an algorithmic-information viewpoint that treats a concept as an information object defined only through its structural relation to an agent's total experience. The core constraint is determination: a set of parts forms a reversible consistency relation if any missing part is recoverable from the others (up to the standard logarithmic slack in Kolmogorov-style identities). This reversibility prevents "concepts" from floating free of experience and turns concept existence into a checkable structural claim. To judge whether a decomposition is natural, we define excess information, measuring the redundancy overhead introduced by splitting experience into multiple separately described parts. On top of these definitions, we formulate dialectics as an optimization dynamics: as new patches of information appear (or become contested), competing concepts bid to explain them via shorter conditional descriptions, driving systematic expansion, contraction, splitting, and merging. Finally, we formalize low-cost concept transmission and multi-agent alignment using small grounds/seeds that allow another agent to reconstruct the same concept under a shared protocol, making communication a concrete compute-bits trade-off.

概念学习无监督认知信息结构多智能体对齐

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