arXiv AI
Aug 26

RePolicy: Reinforcement Learning for Safety-Policy Invocation in Agent Safeguards

RePolicy is a reinforcement learning approach designed to invoke safety policies for language model agents by evaluating entire execution trajectories within context-dependent policy libraries. It generates policy-grounded rationales and safety judgments, and is initialized with the PolicyTraj-20K dataset before fine-tuning via GRPO with verifiable rewards and policy-context perturbation. Experiments on six safety benchmarks demonstrate strong safety-detection performance and robust policy invocation across varying contexts.

By Houcheng Jiang, Boxuan Zhang, Qiyong Zhong, Junfeng Fang, Xiang Wang, Xiangnan He
arXiv AI
2d ago

RePolicy: Learning to Select and Apply Safety Policies for Agent Safeguards

RePolicy is a safeguard that learns to both select the appropriate safety policy from a library and assess agent behavior against it. It processes an agent trajectory and a set of candidate policies, chooses the best-matching policy, applies its requirements, and predicts safety. The authors created PolicyTraj-20K, a dataset of over 20,000 annotated trajectories, and trained RePolicy with supervised and reinforcement learning, achieving top performance on six benchmarks and 19 baselines.

By Houcheng Jiang, Boxuan Zhang, Qiyong Zhong, Junfeng Fang, Xiang Wang, Xiangnan He
arXiv Machine Learning
Oct 23

PROACT-Agent: Progressive Runtime Oversight and Active Circuit-breaking for Real-Time Safety

PROACT-Agent is a framework designed to provide proactive runtime oversight for large language model agents, aiming to prevent irreversible environmental harm by enabling real‑time guardrails. It introduces three key components: Progressive Trajectory Unrolling, Reasoning‑Augmented Causal Rectification, and Culturally‑Aware Data Localization, which together address safety drift and enforce temporal consistency. The accompanying PROACT‑Bench, a bilingual safety benchmark with 155,780 labeled states, demonstrates the framework’s effectiveness, achieving high unsafe‑class F1 scores and significantly reducing attack success rates in AgentDojo.

By Ding Jia, Wei Liu, Xianglong Du, Yingjie Li, Yingqing Yang, Huili Yu, Zhangsong Zhan, Chu Zhou
arXiv AI
Aug 11

SHE: Trajectory-driven Safety Harness Evolution for LLM Agents

arXiv:2608. 09885v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The safety of large language model (LLM) agents depends not only on model weights but also on the agent harness that manages context, memory, tools, permissions, and runtime control.

By Wanying Qu, Qinghua Mao, Yu Li, Jiyao Liu, Xin Zhang, Dadi Guo, Yanxu Zhu, Qingyu Liu, Leitao Yuan, Xi Lin, Shanfeng Zhu, Yanwei Fu, Jing Shao, Xia Hu, Dongrui Liu