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Safety Training May Persist Through Helpfulness Optimization in LLM Agents
Benjamin Plaut
Safety post-training has been studied extensively in single-step "chat" settings where safety typically refers to refusing harmful requests. We study an "agentic" (i.e., multi-step…
Check Yourself Before You Wreck Yourself: Selectively Quitting Improves LLM Agent Safety
Vamshi Krishna Bonagiri, Ponnurangam Kumaragurum, Khanh Nguyen +1
As Large Language Model (LLM) agents increasingly operate in complex environments with real-world consequences, their safety becomes critical. While uncertainty quantification is w…
Learning When Not to Learn: Risk-Sensitive Abstention in Bandits with Unbounded Rewards
Sarah Liaw, Benjamin Plaut
In high-stakes AI applications, even a single action can cause irreparable damage. However, nearly all of sequential decision-making theory assumes that all errors are recoverable…
Safe Learning Under Irreversible Dynamics via Asking for Help
Benjamin Plaut, Juan Liévano-Karim, Hanlin Zhu +1
Most learning algorithms with formal regret guarantees essentially rely on trying all possible behaviors, which is problematic when some errors cannot be recovered from. Instead, w…
YRC-Bench: A Benchmark for Learning to Coordinate with Experts
Mohamad H. Danesh, Nguyen X. Khanh, Tu Trinh +1
When deployed in the real world, AI agents will inevitably face challenges that exceed their individual capabilities. A critical component of AI safety is an agent's ability to rec…
Getting By Goal Misgeneralization With a Little Help From a Mentor
Tu Trinh, Mohamad H. Danesh, Nguyen X. Khanh +1
While reinforcement learning (RL) agents often perform well during training, they can struggle with distribution shift in real-world deployments. One particularly severe risk of di…