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Paper frames autonomous cyber defence as multi-objective RL balancing defence against service disruption

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A paper in Applied AI Letters argues that single-objective RL defenders built on hand-weighted rewards cannot adapt at inference time to competing goals such as stopping intrusions versus avoiding downtime. It presents a simple multi-objective network defence game in which defending against red agents must be balanced with preserving network services.

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It formalises the trade-off between defensive action and operational disruption that any autonomous defender must manage.

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  • The authors contrast single-objective RL with a handcrafted weighted reward against a multi-objective formulation that keeps competing objectives separate.Abstract

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