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
What it shows
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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About this paper
- Venue
- arXiv.org
- Citations
- 13, 1 influential · Semantic Scholar
- Upvotes
- 41 · Hugging Face
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