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Show or Tell? Demonstration is More Robust to Changes in Shared Perception than Explanation
Theodore R. Sumers, Mark K. Ho, Thomas L. Griffiths
Successful teaching entails a complex interaction between a teacher and a learner. The teacher must select and convey information based on what they think the learner perceives and…
Learning Rewards from Linguistic Feedback
Theodore R. Sumers, Mark K. Ho, Robert D. Hawkins +2
We explore unconstrained natural language feedback as a learning signal for artificial agents. Humans use rich and varied language to teach, yet most prior work on interactive lear…
Using Machine Teaching to Investigate Human Assumptions when Teaching Reinforcement Learners
Yun-Shiuan Chuang, Xuezhou Zhang, Yuzhe Ma +3
Successful teaching requires an assumption of how the learner learns - how the learner uses experiences from the world to update their internal states. We investigate what expectat…
Resource-rational Task Decomposition to Minimize Planning Costs
Carlos G. Correa, Mark K. Ho, Fred Callaway +1
People often plan hierarchically. That is, rather than planning over a monolithic representation of a task, they decompose the task into simpler subtasks and then plan to accomplis…
The Efficiency of Human Cognition Reflects Planned Information Processing
Mark K. Ho, David Abel, Jonathan D. Cohen +2
Planning is useful. It lets people take actions that have desirable long-term consequences. But, planning is hard. It requires thinking about consequences, which consumes limited c…