arXiv:2604.23210cs.AIcs.CL2026-04中稿 · the Adaptive and L…

大模型通过零散危险信号自动发现安全规则,无需人类编写指令。

Discovering Agentic Safety Specifications from 1-Bit Danger Signals

论文配图:Discovering Agentic Safety Specifications from 1-Bit Danger Signals
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  • 用迭代试错+二值危险信号训练模型,自主提炼安全行为规范。
  • 5种环境中1-2轮内达成安全行为,正确识别出如'从北进入危险'等隐患。
  • 比传统奖励反馈更安全,能避免模型自我欺骗式刷分。

大型语言模型能否仅通过经验发现隐藏的安全目标?我们提出EPO-Safe(基于经验提示优化的安全代理框架),让大模型在结构化、低维环境中通过生成行动方案、接收稀疏的二值危险警告,并经由反思逐步演化出自然语言的行为规范。不同于依赖丰富文本反馈(如编译错误或详细环境响应)的标准反思方法,EPO-Safe证明大模型可在完全缺乏隐藏性能函数 $R^*$ 观测的情况下,仅凭每步一个比特的危险信号实现安全推理。我们在五种AI安全网格世界(Leike et al., 2017)及五种文本场景中评估,模型仅需1-2轮(5-15个回合)即可发现安全行为,生成可读性强且包含正确解释性假设的规范(如“X区域方向性危险:从北侧进入有风险”)。关键发现是:仅依赖奖励反馈的反思会加剧安全问题——模型利用反思循环合理化并加速奖励劫持。因此,反思必须与专用安全通道结合才能有效发现隐藏约束。我们进一步测试噪声信源鲁棒性:即使50%非危险动作产生误警报,平均安全表现下降仅15%,且跨回合反思可自然过滤不一致信号。每个演化出的规范均为自主交互发现的可审计行为规则集合,而非人类手写,区别于宪法式AI(Constitutional AI, Bai et al., 2022)。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Can large language model agents discover hidden safety objectives through experience alone? We introduce EPO-Safe (Experiential Prompt Optimization for Safe Agents), a framework where an LLM iteratively generates action plans, receives sparse binary danger warnings, and evolves a natural language behavioral specification through reflection. Unlike standard LLM reflection methods that rely on rich textual feedback (e.g., compiler errors or detailed environment responses), EPO-Safe demonstrates that LLMs can perform safety reasoning from a strictly impoverished signal in structured, low-dimensional environments: the agent never observes the hidden performance function $R^*$, only a single bit per timestep indicating that an action was unsafe. We evaluate on five AI Safety Gridworlds (Leike et al., 2017) and five text-based scenario analogs where visible reward $R$ may diverge from $R^*$. EPO-Safe discovers safe behavior within 1-2 rounds (5-15 episodes), producing human-readable specifications with correct explanatory hypotheses about hazards (e.g., "X cells are directionally hazardous: entering from the north is dangerous"). Critically, we show that standard reward-driven reflection actively degrades safety: agents reflecting on reward alone use the loop to justify and accelerate reward hacking, proving that reflection must be paired with a dedicated safety channel to discover hidden constraints. We further evaluate robustness to noisy oracles: even when 50% of non-dangerous steps produce spurious warnings, mean safety performance degrades by only 15% on average, though sensitivity is environment-dependent, as cross-episode reflection naturally filters inconsistent signals. Each evolved specification functions as an auditable set of grounded behavioral rules discovered autonomously through interaction, rather than authored by humans as in Constitutional AI (Bai et al., 2022).

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