arXiv:2604.08276cs.AIcs.CR2026-04

解决智能体通信中的认知不对称问题,实现稳定隐秘传输。

ACF: A Collaborative Framework for Agent Covert Communication under Cognitive Asymmetry

  • 用分层结构解耦语义推理与隐写通信,不再依赖相同前缀。
  • 在严重认知不对称下仍保持通信可靠性与语义一致。
  • 适合构建抗干扰的智能体隐秘通信网络,尤其适用于动态环境。

随着生成式AI的发展,自主智能体网络为交互式隐秘通信提供了强大范式。然而,由于智能体通过环境交互动态更新内部记忆,现有方法面临核心结构性缺陷:认知不对称。传统方法要求编码器与解码器具有严格认知对称性,即相同的序列前缀;但在动态部署中,不可避免的前缀差异会破坏同步,导致信道严重退化。为此,我们提出非对称协作框架(ACF),通过正交统计层与认知层,从结构上解耦隐秘通信与语义推理。采用无前缀依赖的解码机制,由共享隐写配置控制,彻底消除对认知对称性的依赖。在真实记忆增强工作流上的评估表明,在严重认知不对称条件下,对称基线遭受严重信道退化,而ACF在语义保真度与隐秘通信性能上均表现卓越,维持计算不可区分性,支持可证明误差边界,为现代智能体网络提供稳健的有效信息容量保障。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

As generative artificial intelligence evolves, autonomous agent networks present a powerful paradigm for interactive covert communication. However, because agents dynamically update internal memories via environmental interactions, existing methods face a critical structural vulnerability: cognitive asymmetry. Conventional approaches demand strict cognitive symmetry, requiring identical sequence prefixes between the encoder and decoder. In dynamic deployments, inevitable prefix discrepancies destroy synchronization, inducing severe channel degradation. To address this core challenge of cognitive asymmetry, we propose the Asymmetric Collaborative Framework (ACF), which structurally decouples covert communication from semantic reasoning via orthogonal statistical and cognitive layers. By deploying a prefix-independent decoding paradigm governed by a shared steganographic configuration, ACF eliminates the reliance on cognitive symmetry. Evaluations on realistic memory-augmented workflows demonstrate that under severe cognitive asymmetry, symmetric baselines suffer severe channel degradation, whereas ACF uniquely excels across both semantic fidelity and covert communication. It maintains computational indistinguishability, enabling reliable secret extraction with provable error bounds, and providing robust Effective Information Capacity guarantees for modern agent networks.

隐写通信智能体网络认知不对称

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