3 papers
physics.hist-ph2026
Scientific understanding across disciplines: in varietate concordia?
Henk W. de Regt, Milo D. Cornelissen, Vincent Coumans +7
Understanding is a generally acknowledged aim of science, but the way in which understanding is pursued and criteria for when it is achieved differ widely across scientific discipl…
cs.CY2024
Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback: Whose Culture, Whose Values, Whose Perspectives?
Kristian González Barman, Simon Lohse, Henk de Regt
We argue for the epistemic and ethical advantages of pluralism in Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) in the context of Large Language Models (LLM). Drawing on social…
cs.AI2023
Towards a Benchmark for Scientific Understanding in Humans and Machines
Kristian Gonzalez Barman, Sascha Caron, Tom Claassen +1
Scientific understanding is a fundamental goal of science, allowing us to explain the world. There is currently no good way to measure the scientific understanding of agents, wheth…