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There is a growing interest in designing autonomous agents that can work alongside humans. Such agents will undoubtedly be expected to explain their behavior and decisions. While generating explanations is an actively researched topic, most…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-06-24 Utkarsh Soni , Sarath Sreedharan , Subbarao Kambhampati

Machine learning models are being increasingly deployed to take, or assist in taking, complicated and high-impact decisions, from quasi-autonomous vehicles to clinical decision support systems. This poses challenges, particularly when…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Alex J. Chan , Alihan Huyuk , Mihaela van der Schaar

With the growing capabilities of intelligent systems, the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) and robots in everyday life is increasing. However, when interacting in such complex human environments, the failure of intelligent…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-11-20 Devleena Das , Siddhartha Banerjee , Sonia Chernova

We investigate methods to provide safety assurances for autonomous agents that incorporate predictions of other, uncontrolled agents' behavior into their own trajectory planning. Given a learning-based forecasting model that predicts…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-14 Anish Muthali , Haotian Shen , Sampada Deglurkar , Michael H. Lim , Rebecca Roelofs , Aleksandra Faust , Claire Tomlin

Reinforcement learning for control over continuous spaces typically uses high-entropy stochastic policies, such as Gaussian distributions, for local exploration and estimating policy gradient to optimize performance. Many robotic control…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Ya-Chien Chang , Sicun Gao

There is a growing focus on how to design safe artificial intelligent (AI) agents. As systems become more complex, poorly specified goals or control mechanisms may cause AI agents to engage in unwanted and harmful outcomes. Thus it is…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-01-09 Mark Muraven

When robots share the same workspace with other intelligent agents (e.g., other robots or humans), they must be able to reason about the behaviors of their neighboring agents while accomplishing the designated tasks. In practice,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Junhong Xu , Durgakant Pushp , Kai Yin , Lantao Liu

Safe reinforcement learning (safe RL) aims to respect safety requirements while optimizing long-term performance. In many practical applications, however, the problem involves an infinite number of constraints, known as semi-infinite safe…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Jiaming Zhang , Yujie Yang , Haoning Wang , Liping Zhang , Shengbo Eben Li

In Reinforcement Learning interpretability generally means to provide insight into the agent's mechanisms such that its decisions are understandable by an expert upon inspection. This definition, with the resulting methods from the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-03-10 Michele Persiani , Thomas Hellström

Independent evaluation and red teaming are critical for identifying the risks posed by generative AI systems. However, the terms of service and enforcement strategies used by prominent AI companies to deter model misuse have disincentives…

Autonomous business processes (ABPs), i.e., self-executing workflows leveraging AI/ML, have the potential to improve operational efficiency, reduce errors, lower costs, improve response times, and free human workers for more strategic and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Peter Fettke , Fabiana Fournier , Lior Limonad , Andreas Metzger , Stefanie Rinderle-Ma , Barbara Weber

Recent success in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) allow problem solving automatically without any human intervention. Autonomous approaches can be very convenient. However, in certain domains, e.g., in the medical…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-03-03 Andreas Holzinger , André Carrington , Heimo Müller

While autonomous agents often surpass humans in their ability to handle vast and complex data, their potential misalignment (i.e., lack of transparency regarding their true objective) has thus far hindered their use in critical applications…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Frédéric Berdoz , Roger Wattenhofer

In this paper based on agent and semantic web technologies we propose an approach .i.e., Semantic Oriented Agent Based Search (SOAS), to cope with currently existing challenges of Meta data extraction, modeling and information retrieval…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2010-08-10 Zeeshan Ahmed , Detlef Gerhard

In human-AI interaction, a prominent goal is to attain human`s desirable outcome with the assistance of AI agents, which can be ideally delineated as a problem of seeking the optimal Nash Equilibrium that matches the human`s desirable…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Anjie Liu , Jianhong Wang , Haoxuan Li , Xu Chen , Jun Wang , Samuel Kaski , Mengyue Yang

Autonomous robots can benefit greatly from human-provided semantic characterizations of uncertain task environments and states. However, the development of integrated strategies which let robots model, communicate, and act on such 'soft…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Luke Burks , Hunter M. Ray , Jamison McGinley , Sousheel Vunnam , Nisar Ahmed

In recent years, the world has witnessed various primitives pertaining to the complexity of human behavior. Identifying an event in the presence of insufficient, incomplete, or tentative premises along with the constraints on resources such…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-03-22 Sarika Jain , Archana Patel

With the increasing presence of robotic systems and human-robot environments in today's society, understanding the reasoning behind actions taken by a robot is becoming more important. To increase this understanding, users are provided with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Niclas Schroeter , Francisco Cruz , Stefan Wermter

Agentic search enables LLMs to solve complex multi-hop questions through iterative reasoning and external search. Despite the effectiveness, these systems often suffer from a critical limitation in practice: agents fail to recognize their…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Yunbo Tang , Chengyi Yang , Shiyu Liu , Zhishang Xiang , Zerui Chen , Qinggang Zhang , Jinsong Su

Leveraging planning during learning and decision-making is central to the long-term development of intelligent agents. Recent works have successfully combined tree-based search methods and self-play learning mechanisms to this end. However,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Matthew V Macfarlane , Edan Toledo , Donal Byrne , Paul Duckworth , Alexandre Laterre