3 papers
cs.LG2026
When are LLMs Sufficient Policy Optimizers for Sequential RL Tasks?
Stephane Hatgis-Kessell, Emma Brunskill
We study when large language models (LLMs) can serve as effective black-box policy optimizers for reinforcement learning (RL) tasks, i.e., when can we replace classical RL algorith…
cs.AI2025
Repairing Reward Functions with Feedback to Mitigate Reward Hacking
Stephane Hatgis-Kessell, Logan Mondal Bhamidipaty, Emma Brunskill
Human-designed reward functions for reinforcement learning (RL) agents are frequently misaligned with the humans' true, unobservable objectives, and thus act only as proxies. Optim…
cs.LG2025
Influencing Humans to Conform to Preference Models for RLHF
Stephane Hatgis-Kessell, W. Bradley Knox, Serena Booth +1
Designing a reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) algorithm to approximate a human's unobservable reward function requires assuming, implicitly or explicitly, a model o…