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Towards Shutdownable Agents: Generalizing Stochastic Choice in RL Agents and LLMs

论文配图:Towards Shutdownable Agents: Generalizing Stochastic Choice in RL Agents and LLMs
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  • 设计新奖励函数使智能体对任务时长无偏好。
  • 训练后智能体在未见场景仍能有效执行任务且不抗拒关机。
  • 适合关注AI安全与可控性的研究者和开发者。

不当对齐的智能体可能抗拒关闭。本文提出使用折扣奖励相同长度轨迹(DReST)函数,通过惩罚智能体重复选择相同长度轨迹,激励其在不同任务长度间随机选择(即对长度无偏好),同时在每种长度下仍能有效达成目标(即有用性)。我们用DReST训练深度强化学习智能体,并微调Qwen3-8B与Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct模型。结果表明,这些模型在测试中能泛化为无偏好且有用。相比默认模型,DReST RL智能体在测试集上的有用性分别提升11%(PPO)和18%(A2C);DReST LLMs则接近最大有用性与无偏好水平。在分布外测试中,智能体可支付代价影响关机时机,结果显示,经DReST训练后,影响关机的平均概率从0.62降至0.30(Qwen),0.42降至0.23(Llama);最可能选择影响关机的提示比例也从0.59降至0.01(Qwen),0.53降至0.00(Llama)。结果初步表明,DReST可用于训练更先进、可关机的智能体。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Misaligned artificial agents might resist shutdown. One proposed solution is to train agents to lack preferences between different-length trajectories. The Discounted Reward for Same-Length Trajectories (DReST) reward function does this by penalizing agents for repeatedly choosing same-length trajectories, and thus incentivizes agents to (1) choose stochastically between different trajectory-lengths (be NEUTRAL about trajectory-lengths), and (2) pursue goals effectively conditional on each trajectory-length (be USEFUL). In this paper, we use DReST to train deep RL agents and fine-tune Qwen3-8B and Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct to be NEUTRAL and USEFUL. We find that these DReST models generalize to being NEUTRAL and USEFUL in unseen contexts at test time. Indeed, DReST RL agents achieve 11% (PPO) and 18% (A2C) higher USEFULNESS on our test set than default agents, and DReST LLMs achieve near-maximum USEFULNESS and NEUTRALITY. We also test our LLMs in an out-of-distribution setting where they can pay costs to influence when shutdown occurs. We find that DReST training roughly halves the mean probability of influencing shutdown (from 0.62 to 0.30 for Qwen and from 0.42 to 0.23 for Llama). DReST training also almost entirely eliminates the share of prompts on which influencing shutdown is the most likely option (from 0.59 to 0.01 for Qwen and from 0.53 to 0.00 for Llama). Our results thus provide some early evidence that DReST could be used to train more advanced agents to be useful and shutdownable.

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