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6 papers

cs.RO2026

Belief-Aware Influence and Trust (BAIT): Shaping Human Belief During Repeated Human-Robot Interaction

Ye-Ji Mun, Mahsa Golchoubian, Shahabedin Sagheb +4

Repeated human-robot interaction (HRI) requires proactively accounting for humans who continually adapt to evolving beliefs about the robot. Prior frameworks often treat encounters…

cs.RO2025

CIVIL: Causal and Intuitive Visual Imitation Learning

Yinlong Dai, Robert Ramirez Sanchez, Ryan Jeronimus +4

Today's robots attempt to learn new tasks by imitating human examples. These robots watch the human complete the task, and then try to match the actions taken by the human expert.…

cs.RO2025

Counterfactual Behavior Cloning: Offline Imitation Learning from Imperfect Human Demonstrations

Shahabedin Sagheb, Dylan P. Losey

Learning from humans is challenging because people are imperfect teachers. When everyday humans show the robot a new task they want it to perform, humans inevitably make errors (e.…

cs.RO2025

Should Collaborative Robots be Transparent?

Shahabedin Sagheb, Soham Gandhi, Dylan P. Losey

We often assume that robots which collaborate with humans should behave in ways that are transparent (e.g., legible, explainable). These transparent robots intentionally choose act…

cs.RO2025

A Unified Framework for Robots that Influence Humans over Long-Term Interaction

Shahabedin Sagheb, Sagar Parekh, Ravi Pandya +4

Robot actions influence the decisions of nearby humans. Here influence refers to intentional change: robots influence humans when they shift the human's behavior in a way that help…

cs.RO2025

RECON: Reducing Causal Confusion with Human-Placed Markers

Robert Ramirez Sanchez, Heramb Nemlekar, Shahabedin Sagheb +2

Imitation learning enables robots to learn new tasks from human examples. One fundamental limitation while learning from humans is causal confusion. Causal confusion occurs when th…