Reward shaping is a well-known technique applied to help reinforcement-learning agents converge more quickly to nearoptimal behavior. In this paper, we introduce social reward sha...
Monica Babes, Enrique Munoz de Cote, Michael L. Li...
Life-likeanimatedinterfaceagentsforknowledge-basedlearning environments can provide timely, customized advice to support students’ problem solving. Because of their strong visua...
Stuart G. Towns, Jennifer L. Voerman, Charles B. C...
Relationships between concepts account for a large proportion of semantic knowledge. We present a nonparametric Bayesian model that discovers systems of related concepts. Given da...
Charles Kemp, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Thomas L. Griff...
When its human operator cannot continuously supervise (much less teleoperate) an agent, the agent should be able to recognize its limitations and ask for help when it risks making...
Robert Cohn, Michael Maxim, Edmund H. Durfee, Sati...
There is a growing interest in intelligent assistants for a variety of applications from organizing tasks for knowledge workers to helping people with dementia. In our earlier wor...