arXiv:2607.15282cs.HCcs.AI2026-07

将共情定义为容忍预测偏差的能力,提出动态容错机制

Empathy as Predictive Misalignment Tolerance: A Co-Regulation Framework and the Regime Structure of Dialogue Repair

论文配图:Empathy as Predictive Misalignment Tolerance: A Co-Regulation Framework and the Regime Structure of Dialogue Repair
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  • 将共情重构为预测偏差容忍,而非情绪同步
  • 在不同噪声水平下,修复策略分别侧重精确检索或整体语义保留
  • 适合研究长对话中人机共情交互的系统设计

共情常被理解为对他人即时情绪或认知状态的共鸣,这一同步视角主导了人工智能系统设计,使共情表现为情感识别与响应对齐。我们主张,对于持续性对话而言,这种目标不恰当——理解是随时间通过预测、分歧与修复逐步展开的。因此,我们将共情重定义为预测性偏差容忍:即预见并调节跨时序分歧的能力,而非消除分歧。为此提出解释误差容忍(Interpretive Error Tolerance, IET),一种动态阈值启发式方法,将共情建模为在对话双方间维持一个可接受的分歧区间。在受控噪声条件下,用两个计算探针评估该框架。IET更新规则未优于固定基线。但发现稳健的依赖于环境的修复结构:修复在低噪声下降低检索精度,在高噪声下保留语义主旨,揭示了噪声水平、修复行为与评估指标之间的交互关系。基于IET的解释表明,持续对话中的共情并非消除分歧,而是调控其动态。这推动共情型AI设计从追求一致转向管理解释距离。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Empathy is most often theorized as resonance: a mirroring of another's present emotional or cognitive state. This synchronic framing has shaped artificial systems, where empathic behavior is defined as affect recognition and response alignment. We argue this is the wrong target for extended dialogue, where understanding unfolds over time through prediction, divergence, and repair. We reframe empathy as predictive misalignment tolerance: the capacity to anticipate and regulate divergence across time rather than collapse it. We formalize this as Interpretive Error Tolerance (IET), a dynamic-threshold heuristic that models empathy as maintaining a viable band of divergence between agents. We evaluate this framework with two computational probes under controlled noise. The IET update rule does not outperform fixed baselines. Instead, we find a robust regime-dependent structure: repair trades discriminative fidelity for gist preservation. At low noise, repair degrades retrieval accuracy; at high noise, it preserves gist meaning, revealing an interaction between noise level, repair, and evaluation metric. We interpret this structure through IET, suggesting that empathy in extended interaction is not eliminating divergence but regulating its dynamics. This motivates a shift in empathic AI design from convergence toward managing interpretive distance.

共情计算对话修复动态容错

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