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The Alignment Waltz: Jointly Training Agents to Collaborate for Safety research paper by Meta, 2025

Meta · Alignment and safety · Oct 9, 2025 · 13 citations · 41 upvotes · unverified

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WaltzRL, a multi-agent reinforcement learning framework, improves LLM safety and helpfulness by collaboratively training a conversation agent and a feedback agent, reducing unsafe responses and overrefusals.

By Jingyu Zhang, Haozhu Wang, Eric Michael Smith and 7 more · arXiv 2510.08240 · PDF

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13, 1 influential · Semantic Scholar
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41 · Hugging Face
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CitationsNov 2, 2026Citations rose from 11 to 13.
CitationsOct 5, 2026Citations rose from 10 to 11.
CitationsSep 25, 2026A first count of 1 influential citations.
CitationsSep 25, 2026A first count of 10 citations.
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