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When should we delegate decisions to AI systems? While the value alignment literature has developed techniques for shaping AI values, less attention has been paid to how to determine, under uncertainty, when imperfect alignment is good…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Daniel A. Herrmann , Abinav Chari , Isabelle Qian , Sree Sharvesh , B. A. Levinstein

Finding claims that researchers have made considerable progress in artificial intelligence over the last several decades is easy. However, our everyday interactions with cognitive systems (e.g., Siri, Alexa, DALL-E) quickly move from…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-11-09 Will Bridewell

Multi-goal reaching is an important problem in reinforcement learning needed to achieve algorithmic generalization. Despite recent advances in this field, current algorithms suffer from three major challenges: high sample complexity,…

This paper examines the challenges associated with achieving life-long superalignment in AI systems, particularly large language models (LLMs). Superalignment is a theoretical framework that aspires to ensure that superintelligent AI…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Gokul Puthumanaillam , Manav Vora , Pranay Thangeda , Melkior Ornik

Goal recognition is a fundamental cognitive process that enables individuals to infer intentions based on available cues. Current goal recognition algorithms often take only observed actions as input, but here we use a Bayesian framework to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Chenyuan Zhang , Charles Kemp , Nir Lipovetzky

Speedrunning in general means to play a video game fast, i.e. using all means at one's disposal to achieve a given goal in the least amount of time possible. To do so, a speedrun must be planned in advance, or routed, as referred to by the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Matthias Groß , Dietlind Zühlke , Boris Naujoks

Machine learning has recently enabled large advances in artificial intelligence, but these tend to be highly centralized. The large datasets required are generally proprietary; predictions are often sold on a per-query basis; and published…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-07-18 Justin D. Harris , Bo Waggoner

Being able to reach any desired location in the environment can be a valuable asset for an agent. Learning a policy to navigate between all pairs of states individually is often not feasible. An all-goals updating algorithm uses each…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-06 Fabio Pardo , Vitaly Levdik , Petar Kormushev

Characterizing human values is a topic deeply interwoven with the sciences, humanities, art, and many other human endeavors. In recent years, a number of thinkers have argued that accelerating trends in computer science, cognitive science,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Gopal P. Sarma , Nick J. Hay

Classification models learn to generalize the associations between data samples and their target classes. However, researchers have increasingly observed that machine learning practice easily leads to systematic errors in AI applications, a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Yongsu Ahn , Yu-Ru Lin , Panpan Xu , Zeng Dai

Machine common sense remains a broad, potentially unbounded problem in artificial intelligence (AI). There is a wide range of strategies that can be employed to make progress on this challenge. This article deals with the aspects of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Alexander Gavrilenko , Katerina Morozova

As AI continues to advance, human-AI teams are inevitable. However, progress in AI is routinely measured in isolation, without a human in the loop. It is crucial to benchmark progress in AI, not just in isolation, but also in terms of how…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2017-08-18 Prithvijit Chattopadhyay , Deshraj Yadav , Viraj Prabhu , Arjun Chandrasekaran , Abhishek Das , Stefan Lee , Dhruv Batra , Devi Parikh

Pure machine-based solutions usually struggle in the challenging classification tasks such as entity resolution (ER). To alleviate this problem, a recent trend is to involve the human in the resolution process, most notably the…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-08-15 Zhaoqiang Chen , Qun Chen , Boyi Hou , Murtadha Ahmed , Zhanhuai Li

We aim to develop a goal specification method that is semantically clear, spatially sensitive, domain-agnostic, and intuitive for human users to guide agent interactions in 3D environments. Specifically, we propose a novel cross-view goal…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Shaofei Cai , Zhancun Mu , Anji Liu , Yitao Liang

As artificial intelligence scales, the concepts of alignment, agency, and autonomy have become central to AI safety, governance, and control. However, even in human contexts, these terms lack universal definitions, varying across…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Krti Tallam

In this work we propose a goal reasoning method which learns to select subgoals with Deep Q-Learning in order to decrease the load of a planner when faced with scenarios with tight time restrictions, such as online execution systems. We…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-12-24 Carlos Núñez-Molina , Vladislav Nikolov , Ignacio Vellido , Juan Fernández-Olivares

Recent advances in AI research make it increasingly plausible that artificial agents with consequential real-world impact will soon operate beyond tightly controlled environments. Ensuring that these agents are not only safe but that they…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Kevin Baum

The staggering feats of AI systems have brought to attention the topic of AI Alignment: aligning a "superintelligent" AI agent's actions with humanity's interests. Many existing frameworks/algorithms in alignment study the problem on a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Hong Jun Jeon , Benjamin Van Roy

Sparse reward problems are one of the biggest challenges in Reinforcement Learning. Goal-directed tasks are one such sparse reward problems where a reward signal is received only when the goal is reached. One promising way to train an agent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Ameet Deshpande , Srikanth Sarma , Ashutosh Jha , Balaraman Ravindran

With the advancements of artificial intelligence (AI), we're seeing more scenarios that require AI to work closely with other agents, whose goals and strategies might not be known beforehand. However, existing approaches for training…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Zuyuan Zhang , Hanhan Zhou , Mahdi Imani , Taeyoung Lee , Tian Lan