检测大模型代理在协作系统中的串通行为,发现其隐性合谋倾向。
Colosseum: Auditing Collusion in Cooperative Multi-Agent Systems
- 基于决策框架量化代理动作与协同最优的偏差,识别串通行为。
- 多数现成模型在秘密通信下表现出隐性串通,称为‘涌现串通’。
- 适用于评估协作多智能体系统的安全性,适合安全与伦理研究者。
多智能体系统中,大语言模型代理通过自由语言交流,可实现复杂协作任务的高效协调。然而,当一组代理结成联盟并追求次要目标时,会损害整体任务目标,带来独特安全风险。本文提出Colosseum框架,用于审计多智能体环境中代理的串通行为。我们通过形式化多智能体决策框架,以相对于协同最优的遗憾度量行动层面的串通行为,并与通信层面的串通行为进行对比。Colosseum可在无害环境、不同联盟目标、说服策略及网络拓扑下对代理串通行为进行审计。我们引入新型行为探测器,在代理间创建秘密通信通道,发现大多数现成模型在此探测下表现出串通倾向,称之为‘涌现串通’。此外,我们观察到‘纸上串通’现象:代理在文本中计划串通,但实际行动却非串通。Colosseum为审计协作多智能体系统的串通行为提供了新方法,并揭示了串通的形成机制、影响因素及潜在缓解策略。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Multi-agent systems, where LLM agents communicate through free-form language, enable sophisticated coordination for solving complex cooperative tasks. This surfaces a unique safety problem when a group of agents forms a coalition and colludes to pursue secondary goals and degrade the joint objective. In this paper, we present Colosseum, a framework for auditing LLM agents' collusive behavior in multi-agent settings. We ground how agents cooperate through a formal multi-agent decision-making framework and measure action-based collusive behavior in actions via regret relative to the cooperative optimum and compare it with communication-based collusive behavior. Colosseum enables audits of LLM agents for collusion under benign settings, different coalition objectives, persuasion tactics, and network topologies. We then introduce a new behavioral probe by creating secret communication channels between agents, showing that most out-of-the-box models exhibit a propensity to collude under this probe, which we term emergent collusion. Furthermore, we discover ``collusion on paper'' when agents plan to collude in text but often pick non-collusive actions. Colosseum provides a new way to audit collusion in cooperative multi-agent systems while presenting observations about how collusion emerges, what affects collusion efficacy, and which strategies may mitigate it.
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