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Strategy learning in game environments with multi-agent is a challenging problem. Since each agent's reward is determined by the joint strategy, a greedy learning strategy that aims to maximize its own reward may fall into a local optimum.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Xinyu Qiao , Yudong Hu , Congying Han , Weiyan Wu , Tiande Guo

The development of largely human-annotated benchmarks has driven the success of deep neural networks in various NLP tasks. To enhance the effectiveness of existing benchmarks, collecting new additional input-output pairs is often too costly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Jaehyung Kim , Jinwoo Shin , Dongyeop Kang

We study preference learning through recommendations in multi-agent game settings, where a moderator repeatedly interacts with agents whose utility functions are unknown. In each round, the moderator issues action recommendations and…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Arwa Alanqary , Zakaria Baba , Manxi Wu , Alexandre M. Bayen

In machine learning for sequential decision-making, an algorithmic agent learns to interact with an environment while receiving feedback in the form of a reward signal. However, in many unstructured real-world settings, such a reward signal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Ellen Novoseller , Vinicius G. Goecks , David Watkins , Josh Miller , Nicholas Waytowich

Personalization is central to human-AI interaction, yet current diffusion-based image generation systems remain largely insensitive to user diversity. Existing attempts to address this often rely on costly paired preference data or…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Gabriel Patron , Zhiwei Xu , Ishan Kapnadak , Felipe Maia Polo

Assistive robots interact with humans and must adapt to different users' preferences to be effective. An easy and effective technique to learn non-expert users' preferences is through rankings of robot behaviors, for example, robot movement…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Nathaniel Dennler , Zhonghao Shi , Stefanos Nikolaidis , Maja Matarić

Reward engineering is one of the key challenges in Reinforcement Learning (RL). Preference-based RL effectively addresses this issue by learning from human feedback. However, it is both time-consuming and expensive to collect human…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Runze Liu , Chenjia Bai , Jiafei Lyu , Shengjie Sun , Yali Du , Xiu Li

Most conversational recommendation approaches are either not explainable, or they require external user's knowledge for explaining or their explanations cannot be applied in real time due to computational limitations. In this work, we…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Nikolaos Kondylidis , Jie Zou , Evangelos Kanoulas

We propose an interactive-predictive neural machine translation framework for easier model personalization using reinforcement and imitation learning. During the interactive translation process, the user is asked for feedback on uncertain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-08 Tsz Kin Lam , Shigehiko Schamoni , Stefan Riezler

Endowing chatbots with a consistent personality plays a vital role for agents to deliver human-like interactions. However, existing personalized approaches commonly generate responses in light of static predefined personas depicted with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Yifan Liu , Wei Wei , Jiayi Liu , Xianling Mao , Rui Fang , Dangyang Chen

Interactive reinforcement learning agents use human feedback or instruction to help them learn in complex environments. Often, this feedback comes in the form of a discrete signal that is either positive or negative. While informative, this…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Tasmia Tasrin , Md Sultan Al Nahian , Habarakadage Perera , Brent Harrison

Explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) has predominantly focused on generating model-centric explanations that approximate the behavior of black-box models. However, such explanations often overlook a fundamental aspect of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Salvatore Greco , Jacek Karolczak , Roman Słowiński , Jerzy Stefanowski

Workers spend a significant amount of time learning how to make good decisions. Evaluating the efficacy of a given decision, however, can be complicated -- e.g., decision outcomes are often long-term and relate to the original decision in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Hamsa Bastani , Osbert Bastani , Wichinpong Park Sinchaisri

Reward models (RMs) are essential for aligning large language models (LLMs) with human preferences to improve interaction quality. However, the real world is pluralistic, which leads to diversified human preferences with respect to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Pengyu Cheng , Jiawen Xie , Ke Bai , Yong Dai , Nan Du

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…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2017-09-15 Victor Shih , David C Jangraw , Paul Sajda , Sameer Saproo

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) is widely used to align Language Models (LMs) with human preferences. However, existing approaches often neglect individual user preferences, leading to suboptimal personalization. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Allison Lau , Younwoo Choi , Vahid Balazadeh , Keertana Chidambaram , Vasilis Syrgkanis , Rahul G. Krishnan

Learning from preference feedback is essential for aligning large language models (LLMs) with human values and improving the quality of generated responses. However, existing preference learning methods rely heavily on curated data from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Zhaoxuan Tan , Zheng Li , Tianyi Liu , Haodong Wang , Hyokun Yun , Ming Zeng , Pei Chen , Zhihan Zhang , Yifan Gao , Ruijie Wang , Priyanka Nigam , Bing Yin , Meng Jiang

This paper presents the Designer Preference Model, a data-driven solution that pursues to learn from user generated data in a Quality-Diversity Mixed-Initiative Co-Creativity (QD MI-CC) tool, with the aims of modelling the user's design…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Alberto Alvarez , Jose Font

In this paper, we develop a recommender system for a game that suggests potential items to players based on their interactive behaviors to maximize revenue for the game provider. Our approach is built on a reinforcement learning-based…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-11-18 Hung Nguyen , Minh Nguyen , Long Pham , Jennifer Adorno Nieves

Recommender systems are expected to be assistants that help human users find relevant information automatically without explicit queries. As recommender systems evolve, increasingly sophisticated learning techniques are applied and have…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Zhengbang Zhu , Rongjun Qin , Junjie Huang , Xinyi Dai , Yang Yu , Yong Yu , Weinan Zhang