Papers with Safety-Utility Trade-off
MADRA: Multi-Agent Debate for Risk-Aware Embodied Planning (2026.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Existing safety alignment methods, such as RLHF, fall into a Safety-Utility Trade-off, resulting in severe over-rejection of benign household instructions. |
| Approach: | They propose a meta-cognitive Critical Agent that evaluates peer debates using a structured argumentation framework derived from the Toulmin Model. |
| Outcome: | The proposed architecture outperforms existing systems in the SafeAware-VH benchmark. |