arXiv:2607.13172cs.AIcs.LG2026-07

用人类偏好和理由训练安全智能体,避免真实环境试错。

Learning Safe Agent Behaviour from Human Preferences and Justifications via World Models

论文配图:Learning Safe Agent Behaviour from Human Preferences and Justifications via World Models
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  • 通过世界模型模拟环境,让人类在虚拟中提供行为偏好与理由。
  • 结合偏好与理由训练奖励模型,部署时性能更优且更安全。
  • 适合安全关键场景,尤其需要人类干预的复杂任务。

针对环境动态未知且缺乏合适奖励函数的安全关键场景,传统强化学习难以应用。本文提出DROPJ方法,先从真实轨迹数据中学习一个世界模型(即学习到的模拟器),再由人类在该模拟器中生成若干有信息量的仿真轨迹。从中采样轨迹片段对,收集人类对其的偏好及选择理由。基于这些带理由的偏好训练奖励模型,并结合世界模型,使用模型预测控制直接部署智能体。实验证明:在模拟器中生成有信息量的轨迹可显著降低训练计算成本,提升部署表现;相比其他反馈方式,使用偏好能大幅提高部署性能;且附带安全理由的偏好可显著增强部署安全性,优先实现用户指定的安全目标。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

We address the problem of safely training an agent policy and deploying a good and safe policy, in settings where the environment dynamics are unknown and no suitable reward function is available. In the context of safety-critical environments, we consider traditional reinforcement learning impractical and resort to the resource of human input. We introduce DROPJ, a human-centred method for both safe training and deployment. We first learn a world model (a learned simulator) from a dataset of prior real-world trajectories. A human then plays the game in this learned simulator to extract several informative simulated trajectories. From these, we sample pairs of simulated trajectory segments and elicit from a human their preference over these segments, as well as a reason (justification) for their choice. We then train a reward model from these justified preferences and use it, together with the world model, to directly deploy the agent using model predictive control. Running real-user experiments, we find that generating informative simulated trajectories from a user significantly reduces the computational cost during training compared to other strategies, and can also improve the performance during deployment. In the context of training within a learned simulator, we show that the use of preferences rather than other types of feedback substantially improves the performance during deployment. We further demonstrate that safety justifications accompanying preferences can significantly enhance safety or prioritise user-prescribed aspects of safety associated with them during deployment.

安全智能体人类偏好世界模型强化学习

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