arXiv:2605.10754cs.AI2026-05

用控制论为大模型智能体构建理论框架,解决长期运行中的失控问题。

The Agent Use of Agent Beings: Agent Cybernetics Is the Missing Science of Foundation Agents

论文配图:The Agent Use of Agent Beings: Agent Cybernetics Is the Missing Science of Foundation Agents
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  • 将控制论六大定律映射为智能体设计原则
  • 提出可靠性、持续运行、自我改进三大工程目标
  • 适用于代码生成、计算机操作等复杂任务场景

基于大语言模型的基座智能体在开放、长周期复杂任务中迅速成为主流,但该领域仍以工程实践为主。尽管实践中已形成工具循环、记忆库等有效组件,但其组合依赖经验试错,缺乏基本原理支撑。核心问题包括:智能体如何保持任务聚焦?环境超出表征能力时如何响应?安全自我提升需要何种架构特性?本文主张,20世纪中叶的控制论——研究复杂系统中控制与通信的科学——可作为基座智能体缺失的理论基础。通过将经典控制论的六条定律转化为六项智能体设计原则,并整合为可靠性、持续运行、自我改进三项工程要求,提出「智能体控制论」框架。三个应用领域(代码生成、计算机使用、自动化研究)验证了该框架的分析能力,识别出失败模式并给出具体工程建议。期望智能体控制论能开辟新研究方向,为基座智能体提供可信赖的科学基础。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

LLM-based foundation agents that perceive, reason, and act across thousands of reasoning steps are rapidly becoming the dominant paradigm for deploying artificial intelligence in open-ended, long-horizon complex tasks. Despite this significance, the field remains overwhelmingly engineering-driven. Engineering practice has converged on useful primitives (tool loops, memory banks, harnesses, reflection steps), yet these are assembled by empirical trial and error rather than from first principles. Fundamental questions remain open: under what conditions does a long-running agent remain on-task? How should an agent respond when its environment exceeds its representational capacity? What architectural properties are necessary for safe self-improvement? We argue that cybernetics, the mid-twentieth-century science of control and communication in complex systems, provides the missing theoretical scaffold for foundation agents. By mapping six canonical laws of classical cybernetics onto six agent design principles, and synthesizing those principles into three engineering desiderata (reliability, lifelong running, and self-Improvement), we arrive at a framework termed Agent Cybernetics. Three application domains, code generation, computer use and automated research, exemplify the analytical framework of agent cybernetics by identifying failure modes and concrete engineering recommendations. We hope that agent cybernetics opens a new research venue and establishes the scientific foundation that foundation agents need for principled, reliable real-world deployment.

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