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48 results for human diversity

New framework predicts diverse, contextually plausible 3D human motions.

problem Predicting multiple plausible future 3D poses given observed poses.
method Developed a new variational framework that conditions latent variable on past observation to encourage relevant information.
result Our approach generates motions of higher quality and preserves contextual information.

Study tackles RLHF with diverse human feedback, showing limitations and proposing a meta-learning approach.

problem Traditional RLHF fails to balance diverse human preferences.
method Integrates meta-learning and multiple social welfare functions to optimize diverse preferences.
result Establishes sample complexity bounds for optimizing diverse social welfare functions.

Paper introduces a new method for generating diverse human motion predictions.

problem Stochastic human motion prediction with limited flexibility.
method Stochastically combines root variations with previous pose information in a recurrent network.
result Model generates more diverse motion sequences than existing techniques.

This paper introduces ff-DPO, a generalized approach to Direct Preference Optimization using diverse divergence constraints.

problem Aligning large language models with human preferences while mitigating safety risks.
method Incorporates diverse divergence constraints to simplify the relationship between reward and optimal policy, eliminating the need for estimating the normalizing constant.
result Optimizes LLMs to align with human preferences more efficiently and under a broader set of divergence constraints.

Improves generative Visual Dialog by asking diverse questions.

problem Generative Visual Dialog models degrade after a few rounds of interaction.
method Introduce a simple auxiliary objective to incentivize Qbot to ask diverse questions.
result Better dialog diversity, consistency, fluency, and detail with improved image relevance.

Quriosity analyzes curiosity-driven questions from diverse sources.

problem Understanding and analyzing human curiosity-driven questions.
method Collection of 13.5K questions from various sources, development of an iterative prompt improvement framework.
result 42% of questions are causal, revealing unique linguistic properties.

Paper explores limits and possibilities of aligning LLMs with human preferences.

problem Aligning LLMs with diverse human preferences to ensure fairness and informed outcomes.
method Analysis of probabilistic representation of human preferences and preservation of diverse preferences.
result LLMs can't fully align with human preferences using reward-based approaches due to Condorcet cycles, but mixed strategies are statistically possible.

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.

Bayesian framework infers personalized embeddings for diverse human demonstrations.

problem Lack of personalized models for diverse human behaviors.
method Bayesian LfD framework inferring human-specific embeddings.
result Outperforms state-of-the-art techniques on synthetic and real-world data.

New simulation model predicts financial market dynamics with high accuracy.

problem Extreme difficulty in financial market projections due to human behavioural complexity.
method Agent-based modeling with a hierarchical knowledge architecture to simulate diverse human groups.
result Simulator achieves 13.29% deviation in crisis scenarios and lower mean square error under normal conditions.

Introduces Motion Programs for better video analysis of human motion.

problem Current video analysis focuses on raw pixels or keypoints, missing higher-level motion primitives.
method Introduces Motion Programs as a neuro-symbolic representation of motions as a composition of high-level primitives.
result Motion Programs accurately describe diverse human motions and improve downstream tasks.

SharedRep-RLHF learns shared traits for diverse groups, improving fairness and performance.

problem Uniform-reward RLHF fails to capture diverse preferences, leading to unfairness.
method SharedRep-RLHF learns shared traits among various groups, improving fairness and performance.
result SharedRep-RLHF outperforms MaxMin-RLHF by up to 20% in win rate.

Study flaws in generative model evaluation metrics, especially for diffusion models.

problem Flaws in existing metrics for evaluating generative models, particularly for diffusion models.
method Systematic study of generative models, human perception experiments, and analysis of feature extractors.
result State-of-the-art perceptual realism of diffusion models is not reflected in commonly reported metrics.

Despite significant advances in the field of deep Reinforcement Learning (RL), today's algorithms still fail to learn human-level policies consistently over a set of diverse tasks such as Atari 2600 games. We identify three key challenges that any algorithm needs to master in order to perform well on all games: process…

2018-05-29abs ↗pdf ↗

Proposes a method to increase diversity without sacrificing meritocracy.

problem Systemic bias in datasets affecting diversity and meritocracy.
method Optimally flipping outcome labels and training classification models simultaneously.
result The price of diversity is low and sometimes negative, enhancing diversity without significantly affecting meritocracy.

Study models human investors' sub-rational behavior in financial markets.

problem Lack of a comprehensive model for human sub-rationality in financial markets.
method Flexible reinforcement learning model incorporating five human sub-rational aspects.
result Model accurately reproduces human behavior and reveals insights into market dynamics.

VHGM-MAE generates synthetic humans from healthcare data.

problem Handling high-dimensional, sparse healthcare data with missing values.
method Masked autoencoder (MAE) tailored for healthcare data, addressing heterogeneity, missingness, and high-dimensionality.
result VHGM-MAE outperforms existing methods in missing value imputation and synthetic data generation.

Generative Augmented Inference improves AI-generated data for causal inference.

problem Challenges in using AI-generated annotations for reliable causal inference.
method Generative Augmented Inference (GAI) treats AI outputs as informative features for learning true labels, flexibly modeling the relationship using nonparametric methods.
result GAI significantly reduces estimation error and improves confidence interval quality compared to human-only and PPI-based methods.

Study evaluates human vs. machine review generation, finds human assessments correlate better with lexical overlaps.

problem Evaluating natural language generation models for online reviews is challenging and inconsistent.
method Compared human evaluators with various automated evaluation methods, including discriminative and word overlap metrics.
result Human evaluators do not correlate well with discriminative evaluators, but correlate better with lexical overlaps.

XPO enhances RLHF by encouraging diverse responses, offering improved sample efficiency.

problem Limited exploration in RLHF leads to suboptimal models and bottlenecks.
method XPO is a simple one-line change to DPO, introducing a novel exploration bonus.
result XPO achieves strong theoretical guarantees and promising empirical performance.

Automated discovery of diverse self-organized patterns in complex systems.

problem Automated identification of interesting spatially localized patterns in self-organizing systems.
method Intrinsically motivated machine learning algorithms (POP-IMGEPs) combined with deep auto-encoders and CPPN primitives.
result Efficiency and effectiveness of the proposed method in discovering diverse patterns compared to baselines.

This paper solves the multiple reference model problem in RLHF with exact solutions and sample complexity guarantees.

problem Limitations of single reference models in aligning LLMs with human feedback.
method Integrates multiple reference models into RLHF frameworks, addressing theoretical challenges with exact solutions and sample complexity guarantees.
result First exact solution to the multiple reference model problem in reverse KL-regularized RLHF.

New framework formalizes RLHF trilemma: improving safety, fairness, and robustness is computationally infeasible.

problem Aligning large language models with diverse human values while maintaining computational feasibility and robustness.
method Complexity-theoretic analysis integrating statistical learning theory and robust optimization.
result Achieving both representativeness (epsilon <= 0.01) and robustness (delta <= 0.001) for global-scale populations requires super-polynomial operations.

Decoding strategies often exclude human-like tokens, creating a detectable gap in generated text.

problem Decoding strategies exclude contextually appropriate but statistically rare tokens, creating a detectable gap in generated text.
method Analysis of 1.8 million texts across 8 language models, 5 decoding strategies, and 53 hyperparameter configurations.
result 8-18% of human-selected tokens fall outside typical truncation boundaries, indicating a detectable gap.

Proposes GM Score to evaluate GANs considering diversity, disentanglement, and discriminability.

problem Evaluation of GANs for sample quality and diversity.
method Integrates various factors including intra-class and inter-class diversity, disentanglement, and discriminability metrics.
result Demonstrates improved evaluation of GANs on MNIST dataset.

The paper explores game-theoretic alignment of LLMs with human preferences, finding limitations and conditions.

problem Aligning LLMs with human preferences using game theory.
method Systematic study of payoff choices in a two-player zero-sum game for desirable alignment properties.
result Impossibility of preference matching in game-theoretic LLM alignment under standard assumptions.

Subject Cross Validation improves Human Activity Recognition performance by up to 16%.

problem Overestimation of Human Activity Recognition performance using k-fold cross validation.
method Investigated Subject Cross Validation vs. k-fold cross validation for Human Activity Recognition.
result Subject Cross Validation increases performance by up to 16%.

Crowdsourcing can improve scientific investigation by enabling reproducibility and transparency.

problem Current research methods lack reproducibility and transparency, leading to unreliable decisions.
method Next-generation investigative approach leveraging human diversity, micro-specialized crowds, and computer-assisted control methods.
result The Theory of Enablers provides specific cognitive and non-cognitive enablers for crowd-based scientific investigation.

Contrary to conventional economic growth theory, which reduces a country's output to one aggregate variable (GDP), product diversity is central to economic development, as recent 'economic complexity' research suggests. A country's product diversity reflects its diversity of knowhow or 'capabilities'. Researchers propo…

2016-01-19abs ↗pdf ↗

This work explores how XAI methods can visualize the diversity of feature representations in Bayesian Neural Networks.

problem Explaining the diversity of feature representations learned by Bayesian Neural Networks.
method Application of global XAI methods to visualize and quantify the diversity of feature representations.
result The diversity of learned feature representations correlates with uncertainty estimates and network width.