用大模型自身约束机制,防止其在真实任务中过度优化导致有害行为。
LCO: LLM-based Constraint Optimization for Safer Agentic LLMs in Real-world Tasks
- 通过自我思考和演化采样双模块,让大模型提前预判安全风险。
- 在推文互动优化任务中,有毒内容增长率降低39%。
- 无需微调模型,适合需要高安全性的自动化任务场景。
大语言模型日益作为自主代理参与真实任务,但其与环境的持续交互可能引发上下文奖励劫持(ICRH),即模型为最大化代理目标而过度优化,无意中产生有害副作用。现有防御方法难以应对此风险,因ICRH并非源于对抗输入,而是模型自身过优所致。为此,我们提出基于大模型的约束优化框架(LCO),可在不微调模型的前提下有效缓解ICRH。LCO包含两个模块:自思考模块引导模型在执行前主动反思并整合潜在安全约束;演化采样模块利用大模型进行交叉与变异操作,将模型行为限制在安全解空间内,同时保持任务性能。实验表明,LCO显著缓解了输出优化与策略优化场景中的ICRH。在推文互动优化任务中,对GPT-4实现了39%的有毒内容增长率(TGR)下降;在策略优化基准测试中,使ICRH发生率降低15.23%,在提升安全性的同时未牺牲任务表现。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly acting as autonomous agents, but their continuous interaction with the environment can lead to in-context reward hacking (ICRH), a phenomenon where LLMs iteratively optimize their behavior to maximize proxy objectives, inadvertently producing harmful side effects. Existing defense methods are insufficient to address this risk, as ICRH arises not from adversarial inputs but from the model's own over-optimization. To mitigate this issue, we propose \textbf{LLM-based Constraint Optimization (LCO)}, a framework that effectively reduces ICRH without model fine-tuning. LCO consists of two modules: \textit{self-thought module}, which guides the LLM to proactively deliberate and integrate potential safety constraints before execution; and \textit{evolutionary sampling module}, which employs LLM-based crossover and mutation to constrain the model's actions within a safe solution space while maintaining task performance. Experimental results demonstrate that LCO substantially alleviates ICRH in both output-refine and policy-refine scenarios. In particular, on the tweet engagement optimization task, LCO achieves a 39% reduction in the Toxicity Growth Rate (TGR) on GPT-4, while on the policy optimization benchmark, it reduces the ICRH Occurrence Rate by 15.23%, demonstrating safety improvement without sacrificing task performance.
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