Much of the research on learning symbolic models of AI agents focuses on
agents with stationary models. This assumption fails to hold in settings where
the agent's capabilities may change as a result of learning, adaptation, or
other post-deployment modifications. Efficient assessment of agents in such
settings is critical for learning the true capabilities of an AI system and for
ensuring its safe usage. In this work, we propose a novel approach to
"differentially" assess black-box AI agents that have drifted from their
previously known models. As a starting point, we consider the fully observable
and deterministic setting. We leverage sparse observations of the drifted
agent's current behavior and knowledge of its initial model to generate an
active querying policy that selectively queries the agent and computes an
updated model of its functionality. Empirical evaluation shows that our
approach is much more efficient than re-learning the agent model from scratch.
We also show that the cost of differential assessment using our method is
proportional to the amount of drift in the agent's functionality.

本文提出了一种新的方法来 “差异” 评估已经漂移了的黑盒 AI 代理，包括珍稀观测和其初始模型，以生成一个主动查询策略，并计算其功能的更新模型，我们的方法比从头重新学习代理模型要有效得多，使用我们的方法进行差异评估的成本与代理功能的漂移程度成正比。