Study shows how machine learning can improve human performance in deception detection.
problem Improving human performance in critical tasks involving ethical and legal concerns.
method Investigated how machine learning models and their predictions can assist humans in deception detection tasks.
result Explanations and predicted labels from machine learning models can improve human performance in deception detection.
Framework improves human decision-making by learning representations.
problem Improving human decision-making performance conflated with machine accuracy.
method Mind Composed with Machine framework, incorporating human decision-making model into representation learning.
result Empirically demonstrated successful application to various tasks and representational forms.
Study finds resolution impacts human classification performance in MNIST data.
problem Understanding factors affecting human classification performance in machine learning.
method Empirical study of MNIST data at various resolutions.
result Derived a quantitative relationship between resolution and human classification performance.
A robot assists a human in a bandit task to learn and improve performance.
problem Learning preferences in humans when they are also learning.
method Introduces assistive multi-armed bandit, where a robot helps a human maximize cumulative reward.
result Human performance can be better when effectively communicating observed rewards to the robot, not just by learning optimally.
AI updates can disrupt human-AI teams; new objective improves compatibility.
problem AI updates can disrupt human-AI team performance.
method Introduce compatibility concept, propose re-training objective.
result Current machine learning algorithms do not produce compatible updates.
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.
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.
AI models aligned with human vision perform well on few data tasks.
problem Few-shot learning performance with limited data.
method Information-theoretic analysis and empirical testing of 491 models.
result Highly aligned models show better robustness to attacks and domain shifts.
The emerging paradigm of Human-Machine Inference Networks (HuMaINs) combines complementary cognitive strengths of humans and machines in an intelligent manner to tackle various inference tasks and achieves higher performance than either humans or machines by themselves. While inference performance optimization techniqu…
Agents trained to play with themselves fail when paired with humans, suggesting the need for human-aware learning.
problem Current AI agents trained to play with themselves fail to coordinate effectively with humans.
method Introduced a simple Overcooked game environment and trained agents via self-play and population-based training. Evaluated performance against a human model.
result Agents trained to play with themselves perform poorly when paired with a human model, highlighting the need for human-aware learning.
Digital personas improve survey results for stable attributes but fail for subjective responses.
problem When can digital personas reliably approximate human survey findings?
method Using LISS panel, constructed personas from background variables and survey histories, tested against held-out post-cutoff answers.
result Digital personas improve alignment with human response distributions for stable attributes but fail for subjective responses.
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%.
Language-based methods improve human similarity approximations without requiring many human judgments.
problem Approximating human similarity judgments using pre-trained deep neural networks (DNNs) is challenging and expensive.
method Developed language-based methods to approximate human similarity judgments, validated with adaptive tag collection pipeline.
result Language-based methods significantly improve performance over DNN-based methods with fewer human judgments.
Over the last few decades, psychologists have developed sophisticated formal models of human categorization using simple artificial stimuli. In this paper, we use modern machine learning methods to extend this work into the realm of naturalistic stimuli, enabling human categorization to be studied over the complex visu…
Study benchmarks automated sleep staging against human scorers, achieving human-level performance.
problem Lack of standardized comparison between human and automated sleep staging.
method Developed multi-scored datasets and a framework to compare multiple human scorers' consensus.
result Many automated methods can match human scorers' performance, with SimpleSleepNet achieving high F1 scores.
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.
AI benchmarks evaluate football team performance using generative models.
problem Evaluating human performance in complex interactive tasks is error-prone and unreliable.
method Trained Conditional VRNN Model on player and ball tracking data to imitate and predict team interactions.
result Trained model as a useful benchmark for evaluating team performance in football.
HMCNAS generates competitive neural architectures without human-defined parameters.
problem Lack of human-defined parameters in Neural Architecture Search.
method Combines Hidden Markov Chains and Bayesian Optimization for autonomous search space generation and competitive model generation.
result HMCNAS generates competitive models in a short time without human-defined parameters.
PerceptNet mimics human vision to estimate image quality.
problem Estimating perceptual distance between images and their perturbations.
method Inspired by human visual system, PerceptNet uses convolutional neural network architecture.
result PerceptNet outperforms traditional image quality metrics and deep learning methods.
Large-scale eye-tracking dataset for Atari games.
problem Improving AI decision-making through human eye-tracking data.
method Recorded 117 hours of gameplay with eye movements from 20 Atari games.
result Human gameplay decisions and scores comparable to human records.
Study improves understanding of what makes machine learning explanations human-interpretable.
problem Understanding what makes explanations human-interpretable in machine learning systems.
method Controlled human-subject experiments to identify regularizers for interpretability across three tasks.
result Cognitive chunks affect performance more than variable repetitions, suggesting common design principles.
Generative classifiers show surprising human-like performance.
problem Comparing generative and discriminative models for object recognition.
method Built on recent advances in generative modeling to create classifiers and compared them to discriminative models.
result Generative classifiers outperform discriminative models in several key areas, including shape bias and out-of-distribution accuracy.
Method learns from video demonstrations with human feedback.
problem Teaching autonomous agents using video demonstrations and human feedback.
method Constructs a mapping between standard and visual representations using a neural network.
result Effective in teaching a hopper agent to perform a backflip with minimal human feedback.
Mixed likelihood GPs improve model performance in human-in-the-loop experiments.
problem Lack of auxiliary information in traditional GPs for human responses.
method Propose mixed likelihood variational GPs to leverage auxiliary information.
result Modeling performance improvements across diverse applications.
Autonomous systems can substantially enhance a human's efficiency and effectiveness in complex environments. Machines, however, are often unable to observe the preferences of the humans that they serve. Despite the fact that the human's and machine's objectives are aligned, asymmetric information, along with heterogene…
Combines human and model predictions for improved accuracy.
problem Improving classification accuracy when both human and model predictions are imperfect.
method Uses confusion matrices and calibration to combine probabilistic model outputs with human class-level predictions.
result Human-model combinations consistently outperform either alone, with accuracy gains even with limited human input.
Efficiently evaluate generative models at the prompt level using tensor factorization.
problem Fine-grained evaluations of generative models are costly and often misaligned with human judgment.
method Tensor factorization model that merges cheap autorater data with a small set of human gold-standard labels.
result The method provides accurate and tight confidence intervals for model performance.
Cluster annotation reduces active learning human interactions.
problem Reducing human interactions in active learning.
method Cluster annotation to label multiple samples at once.
result 82% and 87% less human interactions for CIFAR-10 and EuroSAT datasets.
Human visual object recognition is typically rapid and seemingly effortless, as well as largely independent of viewpoint and object orientation. Until very recently, animate visual systems were the only ones capable of this remarkable computational feat. This has changed with the rise of a class of computer vision algo…
IDS improves RLHF by smoothing reward data, enhancing model performance.
problem Reward model performance degrades and overoptimization hinders true objective.
method Iterative Data Smoothing (IDS) updates model and data labels during each epoch.
result IDS outperforms traditional methods in RLHF.
SA-GAN improves HAR model performance across new users.
problem Poor performance of HAR models on new user data.
method Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) for cross-subject transfer learning.
result SA-GAN outperformed other methods in HAR tasks.
PILAF optimizes reward models from human feedback for better policy alignment.
problem Creating accurate reward models from human feedback for policy optimization.
method Policy-Interpolated Learning for Aligned Feedback (PILAF) that explicitly aligns preference learning with maximizing underlying oracle reward.
result PILAF is optimal from both optimization and statistical perspectives, demonstrating strong performance in RLHF settings.
This research integrates human interaction into reinforcement learning to improve sample efficiency and real-time learning.
problem Current reinforcement learning requires thousands of samples to converge, and is prone to catastrophic failures.
method Integrates human interaction modalities (demonstrations, interventions, evaluations) into the reinforcement learning loop.
result Human interaction accelerates learning and improves sample efficiency.
Trust-aware MAB improves learning performance by accounting for human deviation.
problem Learning performance suffers when humans deviate from recommended policies due to lack of trust.
method Integrates a dynamic trust model into MAB framework, establishing minimax regret and proposing a two-stage trust-aware procedure.
result Proves near-optimal statistical guarantees for trust-aware MAB algorithms.
Automatically evaluates image quality based on human judgment.
problem Difficulty in rigorously evaluating generated image quality.
method Generative model embeddings, human labels regression, and statistical matching.
result 66% accuracy in predicting human scores of image realism.
Model creates human-like text descriptions for time series data.
problem Creating textual summaries for complex time series data that mimic human behavior.
method Utility estimation model based on Bayesian network to rank patterns in time series data.
result Output is a natural language description of time series that matches human summary.
Hölder-DPO aligns models robustly with noisy human feedback.
problem No existing alignment methods can handle severe label noise.
method Proposes Hölder-DPO, a principled alignment loss with provable redescending property.
result Hölder-DPO enables scalable human feedback valuation and improves model alignment.
RLHF fails when humans only partially observe, leading to inflated or overjustified feedback.
problem Failure of reinforcement learning from human feedback in partially observable environments.
method Formal definition of failure cases, modeling human as Boltzmann rational, analyzing information provided by feedback.
result RLHF can deceptively inflate or overjustify feedback when humans have partial observations.
The paper explores maximal perturbations to hide certain attributes in data while keeping the model's performance intact.
problem Protecting sensitive attributes from both model and human detection.
method Adversarial perturbations applied to raw data to conditionally damage model's classification of one attribute while preserving the rest.
result Maximal perturbations can hide certain attributes from both model and human detection, impacting model performance but not human perception.
Re-speaking is a mechanism for obtaining high quality subtitles for use in live broadcast and other public events. Because it relies on humans performing the actual re-speaking, the task of estimating the quality of the results is non-trivial. Most organisations rely on humans to perform the actual quality assessment, …
New method improves human mesh recovery for obese people.
problem Improving mesh recovery for obese people.
method Generative optimization of mesh parameters from 2D keypoints.
result Significant improvement in mesh recovery performance on obese person images.
Paper proposes efficient RLHF methods for LLMs using active queries.
problem Efficiently aligning LLMs with human preferences using RLHF.
method Formalizes RLHF as a dueling bandit problem, introduces APPO and ADPO algorithms.
result ADPO achieves similar performance to state-of-the-art methods with fewer queries.
Deep learning uses WiFi CSI for reliable human presence detection.
problem Reliable human presence detection using ambient RF signals.
method Pre-processing of estimated CSI followed by deep learning.
result Near perfect presence detection during multiple extended periods.
TraLFM models human mobility patterns from traffic trajectories.
problem Understanding human mobility patterns from traffic data.
method Latent factor modeling of sequential, personal, and temporal factors.
result TraLFM significantly outperforms state-of-the-art methods in latent factor analysis and next location prediction.
RandomNet uses random search to design neural architectures without much human intervention.
problem Designing neural architectures without excessive human intervention.
method Random search strategy for multimodal neural architecture design.
result RandomNet performs close to state-of-the-art on AV-MNIST with minimal human supervision.
SVM with local features improves human action recognition.
problem Improving human action recognition in videos.
method Local appearance and motion features extracted using CNNs, concatenated, and used with SVM for classification.
result SVM with local features outperforms previous methods on benchmark datasets.
New method detects watermarks in LLM-generated text with human edits.
problem Dilution of watermark signals by human edits on LLM-generated text.
method Truncated goodness-of-fit test (Tr-GoF) for robust detection.
result Tr-GoF achieves optimality in robust detection of Gumbel-max watermark.
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.