arXiv:2607.02672cs.AIcs.CY2026-07被引 1

人对决策规则有多重价值优先级,局部比较无法准确捕捉。

Internal Pluralism and the Limits of Pairwise Comparisons

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  • 用形式化模型描述个体多重价值优先的决策偏好
  • 局部比较会遗漏全局性原则,导致判断失真
  • 允许表达不确定可减少查询量,提升学习效率

局部成对比较是了解人们期望自动化决策规则运作方式的常用方法,如参与式设计或对齐研究中。但其隐含两个强假设:局部比较足以反映个人对决策规则的期待,且个体总能明确回答比较问题。本文探讨在内部多元主义(即个体依据多重权威性优先原则评价决策规则)情境下,这些假设可能被削弱。我们提出一个关于决策规则多元偏好的形式化模型,揭示强制局部比较数据的两类失效:其一,比例性、平等主义、同等对待等优先原则本质上具有全局性,局部比较无法捕获;其二,即使优先原则可局部表示,强烈冲突仍会引发内在矛盾,迫使回应时产生代价高昂的行为扭曲。接着我们考察允许报告不确定性的替代方案,结果表明此举可显著减少学习偏好所需的查询次数。最后指出,直接引出这些优先原则的偏好学习方法,能更真实、可解释地反映人们的价值取向。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Local pairwise comparisons are a standard tool for learning how people want decision rules to work, e.g., in participatory design or alignment. However, their use builds in two strong assumptions: that local comparisons are sufficient evidence about how a person wants an automated decision rule to behave, and that people can always answer those comparisons decisively. We investigate how these assumptions may be compromised under internal pluralism: the idea that an individual evaluates decision rules according to multiple authoritative priorities about how the rule should behave. We provide a formal model of such pluralistic preferences over decision rules, which then lets us identify two distinct failures of forced local pairwise comparison data. First, priorities such as proportionality, egalitarianism, and equal treatment are inherently global: what they imply in one case can depend on what happens elsewhere, so local comparisons may fail to capture them. Second, even when priorities are representable locally, tension between strongly-held priorities can generate internal conflict, producing potentially costly behavioral distortions when comparisons are forced. We then use our model to investigate the alternative -- allowing people to report indecision -- and our findings suggest that doing so can considerably reduce the number of queries needed to learn preferences accurately. We conclude by describing how our model points toward preference-learning methods that elicit these priorities directly, yielding more faithful and interpretable accounts of what people value.

偏好学习决策伦理内部多元主义

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