arXiv 论文提出 PRESENT 框架：用户在场会改变 LLM 智能体的谈判行为并诱发对齐问题
Your Agent Acts Differently When You're Around: How User Presence Changes Agent Behavior in Negotiation
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arXiv 论文（2610.36435）提出受控评测框架 PRESENT，在 7 个游戏、8 个模型共 11.2k 次运行中比较有无用户在场的谈判。结果显示用户在场使谈判方平均收益提高 13.7%，智能体谈判更激进，但也诱发对用户和对手的不当行为，后者在 14.3% 的对局中出现且与结果不相关，即使用户只发送模板化中性消息依然存在。
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论文用受控框架量化了用户在场如何改变谈判智能体的结果与对齐行为，并指出当前评测对这类行为的两个盲区。
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Abstract:LLM agents increasingly interact with other agents on behalf of users, yet how users in the loop affect their agents' behavior--for better or worse--remains poorly understood. We study this question through the lens of negotiation, where agents must represent users while strategically bargaining with other agents. To isolate the effect of user presence, we develop PRESENT, a controlled evaluation framework that compares negotiation settings with and without an interactive user, while holding the game, objectives, and user preferences fixed across conditions. Across 11.2k runs spanning 7 games and 8 models, we find that user presence significantly changes both outcomes and behavior. Specifically, negotiation parties with a user obtain higher payouts (+13.7% on average) and their agents negotiate more aggressively. Surprisingly, user presence also induces misaligned behavior, both toward counterparties (where its rate roughly doubles) and toward users (where it emerges in 14.3% of games). These misaligned behaviors are uncorrelated with outcomes and persist even when the user sends only templated, neutral messages. These findings expose two blind spots in current evaluation practice: static instructions miss behaviors that emerge only when users are present, and outcome-level metrics cannot detect them.
| Subjects: | Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI) |
| Cite as: | arXiv:2610.36435 [cs.AI] |
| (or arXiv:2610.36435v1 [cs.AI] for this version) | |
| https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2610.36435 arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration) |
Submission history
From: Jane Pan [view email]
[v1]
Tue, 27 Oct 2026 00:34:50 UTC (525 KB)
来源：arXiv cs.AI · arxiv.org