Paper tackles unobserved confounding in human-AI collaborations.
problem Unobserved confounding undermines human-AI collaboration effectiveness.
method Combines sensitivity analysis from causal inference with AI-driven statistical modeling.
result Enhances robustness and reliability of collaborative outcomes.
Experiment shows cognitive biases impact human-AI collaboration, highlighting the need for diverse evaluator samples.
problem Cognitive biases affect human-AI collaboration, leading to suboptimal outcomes.
method Randomized experiment with 2,784 participants, manipulating AI suggestion quality, task burden, and financial incentives.
result Individual attitudes toward AI are the strongest predictor of performance, influencing accuracy and overcorrection.
New approach to algorithmic fairness for human-AI collaboration considers compliance with human decisions.
problem Current fairness approaches assume perfect human compliance, but real-world compliance is often poor.
method Defines compliance-robustly fair algorithms and proposes an optimization strategy to improve fairness.
result Algorithmic recommendations can improve fairness even if humans do not fully comply with fair algorithms.
This work advances collaborative decision making by combining human and AI strengths in uncertainty quantification.
problem Current AI lacks robust decision-making capabilities under uncertainty, especially in high-stakes contexts.
method Introduces Human AI Collaborative Uncertainty Quantification (HACUQ) framework, formalizing AI-human collaboration and developing calibration algorithms.
result Optimal collaborative prediction sets follow a two-threshold structure, and online adaptation algorithms can adapt to evolving human behavior.
Partner-aware algorithms improve AI collaboration in multi-agent settings.
problem Improving AI cooperation in teams with shared rewards.
method Proposed Partner-Aware strategy extending Upper Confidence Bound for decentralized MAB.
result Achieves logarithmic regret in collaborative decision-making.
Framework uses human judgment to distinguish algorithmically indistinguishable cases.
problem Clarifying human-AI collaboration in prediction and decision tasks.
method Integrates human judgment to distinguish algorithmically indistinguishable cases.
result Improves performance of any feasible algorithmic predictor.
Bayesian principles improve agentic AI decision-making.
problem Decision-making under uncertainty in agentic AI systems.
method Bayesian decision theory applied to the orchestration layer of agentic AI.
result Bayesian principles enhance agentic AI's ability to make decisions under uncertainty.
Enhances BO with expert preferences about abstract properties.
problem Lack of expert knowledge in BO for black-box experimental design.
method Human-AI collaboration to incorporate expert preferences into surrogate modeling.
result Superior performance compared to baselines in synthetic and real-world datasets.
CoExBO optimizes lithium-ion batteries with user input, enhancing trust and efficiency.
problem User distrust in Bayesian optimization due to opacity and lack of user input.
method Preference learning and iterative explanation to integrate user insights.
result Algorithm converges to optimal solution even with adversarial user inputs.
ShapleyBO explains BO's decisions, enhancing human-AI collaboration in robotics.
problem Lack of explainability in BO's black box nature, especially in human-in-the-loop applications.
method Uses game-theoretic Shapley values to quantify and interpret BO's parameter contributions.
result ShapleyBO identifies exploration and exploitation contributions, disentangling aleatoric and epistemic uncertainty.
Optimal allocation of human effort to correct AI assessments in decision-making.
problem How to allocate costly human effort to correct noisy or biased AI-generated assessments.
method Decision-theoretic framework treating AI assessments as signals and human judgments as costly information. Developed estimation procedures under nonparametric and linear models.
result Our approach substantially outperforms LLM-only predictions and achieves performance comparable to full human review while using only 20-30% of the human information.
Framework for responsible LLM deployment with human involvement and decentralized technologies.
problem Challenges in deploying LLMs for high-stakes decisions, including data security and accountability.
method Interactive human involvement through multiple iterations, decentralized technologies, and automated auditing.
result Enhanced security and accountability in LLM deployment for financial decisions.
Study causal effects on humans in mixed human-AI systems with unobserved unit types.
problem Estimating causal effects on humans in systems with unobserved unit types and interaction networks.
method Assumed human-AI prior, causal message passing (CMP) framework, subpopulation analysis.
result Consistently recover human-specific causal effects using subpopulations with varying expected human composition and treatment exposure.
AlphaZero reveals new chess concepts learnable by top experts.
problem Extracting and understanding hidden knowledge from AI systems.
method Proposed method to extract new chess concepts from AlphaZero.
result Top chess grandmasters show improvements in learning new concepts.
Alpha-GPT mines new trading signals with human-AI interaction.
problem Mining new alphas for effective trading signals.
method Human-AI interaction and prompt engineering algorithmic framework.
result Demonstrates Alpha-GPT's effectiveness in generating creative, insightful, and effective alphas.
Human-AI teaming suffers from calibration issues.
problem Human-AI teaming
method Assume calibrated models and humans
result Existing methods for combination do not preserve human's calibration.
Crowdsourced wisdom improves causal learning.
problem Improving causal learning through collective intelligence.
method Crowdsourcing, expert knowledge elicitation, aggregation techniques, and LLMs.
result Collective contributions enhance global causal structure.
This work shows fine-tuning improves LLM uncertainty estimates efficiently.
problem Ensuring high-stakes predictions from large language models.
method Fine-tuning on a small dataset of correct and incorrect answers.
result Fine-tuned LLMs produce good generalization and tractable uncertainty estimates.
FST.ai 2.0 improves Taekwondo decision-making with AI, reducing review time and increasing trust.
problem Fair, transparent, and explainable decision-making in Taekwondo.
method Pose-based action recognition, epistemic uncertainty modeling, interactive dashboards.
result 85% reduction in decision review time, 93% referee trust in AI-assisted decisions.
Designs algorithms to assist humans without affecting their decisions.
problem Algorithms often fail to improve human decisions.
method Formalizes algorithm design using potential outcomes framework and monotonicity assumption.
result Derives minimax optimal recommendation algorithms for limited data.
The paper tackles AI advice giving by considering adherence levels and defer options.
problem Inadequate consideration of human adherence to AI recommendations.
method Sequential decision-making model that considers adherence levels and incorporates a defer option.
result Specialized learning algorithms provide better convergence and empirical performance.
AI systems are being deployed to support human decision making in high-stakes domains. In many cases, the human and AI form a team, in which the human makes decisions after reviewing the AI's inferences. A successful partnership requires that the human develops insights into the performance of the AI system, including …
Reinforcement Learning AI commonly uses reward/penalty signals that are objective and explicit in an environment -- e.g. game score, completion time, etc. -- in order to learn the optimal strategy for task performance. However, Human-AI interaction for such AI agents should include additional reinforcement that is impl…
New algorithms reduce communication costs in collaborative learning.
problem Reducing communication costs in collaborative learning.
method Distributed boosting and adaptation to classification noise.
result Communication-efficient algorithms for collaborative PAC learning robust to noise.
AI system narrows human decision options for better outcomes.
problem Improving human decision-making in sequential tasks.
method Developed a decision support system using a pre-trained AI agent to limit human action choices.
result Participants outperformed AI and solo play in a wildfire mitigation game.
Supply Chain Management often requires independent organizations to work together to achieve shared objectives. This collaboration is necessary when coordinated actions benefit the group more than the uncoordinated efforts of individual firms. Despite the commonly reported benefits that can be gained in close relations…
This paper considers the problem of high dimensional signal detection in a large distributed network whose nodes can collaborate with their one-hop neighboring nodes (spatial collaboration). We assume that only a small subset of nodes communicate with the Fusion Center (FC). We design optimal collaboration strategies w…
The excellent performance of representation learning of autoencoders have attracted considerable interest in various applications. However, the structure and multi-local collaborative relationships of unlabeled data are ignored in their encoding procedure that limits the capability of feature extraction. This paper pre…
Firms' collaboration networks can decline but remain resilient.
problem Resilience of firms' collaboration networks during decline.
method Analysis of 21,500 R&D collaborations over 25 years, simulating drop-out cascades.
result Firms' collaboration networks can adapt to mitigate decline and recover.
Study collaborative learning among multi-agents in multi-armed bandits.
problem Minimizing group cumulative regret in a heterogeneous multi-agent setting.
method Developed decentralized algorithms for collaboration between N agents learning M stochastic multi-armed bandits. result Proved near-optimal behavior of proposed algorithms for group regret.
DEMVC improves multi-view clustering with collaborative training and deep autoencoders.
problem Existing multi-view clustering methods have high computation and space complexities or lack representation capability.
method DEMVC learns embedded representations of multiple views individually using deep autoencoders and collaboratively trains all views.
result DEMVC achieves significant improvements over state-of-the-art methods on multi-view datasets.
Advances in collaborative filtering and ranking methods.
problem Improving recommendation systems efficiency and accuracy.
method Graph information encoding, pairwise and listwise approaches, regularization techniques, personalization.
result New methods significantly improve recommendation system performance.
PCL tackles collaborative learning for diverse agents, reducing sample complexity.
problem Balancing collaborative speedup with personalization for heterogeneous agents.
method AffPCL, with bias and importance correction mechanisms.
result AffPCL reduces sample complexity by a factor of max{n−1,δ}, where n is the number of agents and δ∈[0,1] measures heterogeneity. In this paper we examine the effect of applying ensemble learning to the performance of collaborative filtering methods. We present several systematic approaches for generating an ensemble of collaborative filtering models based on a single collaborative filtering algorithm (single-model or homogeneous ensemble). We pr…
Collaborative recommendation is an information-filtering technique that attempts to present information items (movies, music, books, news, images, Web pages, etc.) that are likely of interest to the Internet user. Traditionally, collaborative systems deal with situations with two types of variables, users and items. In…
Collaborative filtering (CF) has been successfully employed by many modern recommender systems. Conventional CF-based methods use the user-item interaction data as the sole information source to recommend items to users. However, CF-based methods are known for suffering from cold start problems and data sparsity proble…
The way developers collaborate inside and particularly across teams often escapes management's attention, despite a formal organization with designated teams being defined. Observability of the actual, organically formed engineering structure provides decision makers invaluable additional tools to manage their talent p…
Meta clustering categorizes learners for collaborative learning.
problem Filtering out unqualified collaborators in collaborative learning.
method Select-Exchange-Cluster (SEC) method to classify learners by their supervised functions.
result SEC can cluster learners into accurate collaboration sets and enhance single-learner performance.
Optimal algorithm found for collaborative learning in bandits with optimal regret bounds.
problem Minimizing regret in collaborative multi-agent bandit problems.
method Proposed an algorithm with optimal regret bounds for collaborative multi-agent multi-armed bandit model.
result First algorithm with order optimal regret bounds for collaborative bandit model.
A new privacy-preserving deep learning scheme for asymmetrically collaborative machine learning.
problem Privacy and efficiency in collaborative machine learning across different data owners.
method Decomposes neural network steps for privacy-preserving training; novel protocol for information leakage.
result Efficient training with stable performance and significant speedup.
Today, the prominence of data science within organizations has given rise to teams of data science workers collaborating on extracting insights from data, as opposed to individual data scientists working alone. However, we still lack a deep understanding of how data science workers collaborate in practice. In this work…
A new method for online personalized learning reduces gradient variance by dynamically selecting peers.
problem Online personalized decentralized learning with statistically heterogeneous clients.
method Gradient-based collaboration criterion allowing clients to dynamically select peers with similar gradients.
result The method acts as a variance reduction method, achieving optimal performance in certain conditions.
New algorithms for collaborative learning in uncertain, decentralized environments.
problem Byzantine collaborative learning in uncertain, decentralized environments.
method Two asynchronous solutions to averaging agreement, each optimal according to some dimension.
result New algorithms achieve optimal Byzantine resilience and collaborative learning.
New algorithms balance collaboration and adversarial behavior in linear bandits.
problem Minimizing regret in a collaborative linear bandit problem with adversarial agents.
method Robust collaborative phased elimination algorithm with tight analyses.
result Achieves near-optimal regret bounds of $O\left(α+ 1/\sqrt{M}
ight) \sqrt{dT}$ for good agents.
Game theory models incentivizes honesty in collaborative learning among competitors.
problem Incentivizing honest updates among competitors in collaborative learning schemes.
method Formulated a game to model interactions, studied two learning tasks, proposed mechanisms to incentivize honest communication.
result Rational clients are incentivized to manipulate their updates, preventing learning; proposed mechanisms ensure comparable learning quality to full cooperation.
Collaborative filtering is used to recommend items to a user without requiring a knowledge of the item itself and tends to outperform other techniques. However, collaborative filtering suffers from the cold-start problem, which occurs when an item has not yet been rated or a user has not rated any items. Incorporating …
Enhances student diversity in collaborative learning.
problem Student homogenization in large groups.
method Random routing, diverse feature sets, and random subgroup imitation.
result Significantly outperforms state-of-the-art approaches.
In this work, we define a collaborative and privacy-preserving machine teaching paradigm with multiple distributed teachers. We focus on consensus super teaching. It aims at organizing distributed teachers to jointly select a compact while informative training subset from data hosted by the teachers to make a learner l…