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most citedOn the Effect of Robot Errors on Human Teaching Dynamics

3 citations · 4 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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7 papers

cs.AI2026

AI Safety via Debate is Compromised by Cognitive Biases

Gefei Liu, Sonya Rashkovan, Sophia Lloyd George +2

Reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) has played a central role in making large language models responsive to human instructions. However, human evaluators often favor…

cs.RO2026

How Users Understand Robot Foundation Model Performance through Task Success Rates and Beyond

Isaac Sheidlower, Jindan Huang, James Staley +4

Robot Foundation Models (RFMs) represent a promising approach to developing general-purpose home robots. Given the broad capabilities of RFMs, users will inevitably ask an RFM-base…

cs.RO2024★ 3 cited

On the Effect of Robot Errors on Human Teaching Dynamics

Jindan Huang, Isaac Sheidlower, Reuben M. Aronson +1

Human-in-the-loop learning is gaining popularity, particularly in the field of robotics, because it leverages human knowledge about real-world tasks to facilitate agent learning. W…

cs.RO2024★ 1 cited

Online Behavior Modification for Expressive User Control of RL-Trained Robots

Isaac Sheidlower, Mavis Murdock, Emma Bethel +2

Reinforcement Learning (RL) is an effective method for robots to learn tasks. However, in typical RL, end-users have little to no control over how the robot does the task after the…

cs.RO2024

Towards Interpretable Foundation Models of Robot Behavior: A Task Specific Policy Generation Approach

Isaac Sheidlower, Reuben Aronson, Elaine Schaertl Short

Foundation models are a promising path toward general-purpose and user-friendly robots. The prevalent approach involves training a generalist policy that, like a reinforcement lear…

cs.RO2024

Imagining In-distribution States: How Predictable Robot Behavior Can Enable User Control Over Learned Policies

Isaac Sheidlower, Emma Bethel, Douglas Lilly +2

It is crucial that users are empowered to take advantage of the functionality of a robot and use their understanding of that functionality to perform novel and creative tasks. Give…

cs.RO2023

Modifying RL Policies with Imagined Actions: How Predictable Policies Can Enable Users to Perform Novel Tasks

Isaac Sheidlower, Reuben Aronson, Elaine Short

It is crucial that users are empowered to use the functionalities of a robot to creatively solve problems on the fly. A user who has access to a Reinforcement Learning (RL) based r…