より賢い質問を：不完全な報酬に対する標的型能動選好学習
Asking Smarter Questions: Targeted Active Preference Learning for Underspecified Rewards
報酬学習において、人間が十分に教えられなかった特徴をロボット自身が特定し、その特徴に焦点を当てた選好質問と説明を行うことで、少ない質問回数で報酬を効率的に学習する手法を提案。
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著者: Helena Merker, Nick Walker, Andreea Bobu
分類: cs.RO, cs.AI, cs.HC, cs.LG
原文アブストラクト
Reward learning typically assumes the human's input covers everything that matters for the task. In practice, humans can only attend to so much at once, so their teaching naturally captures some features---or aspects of the task---better than others. Prior work has shown how the robot can identify which features were poorly supervised directly from its teaching data. But the current solution is to ask the human to try again, putting the burden on someone who already struggled to convey those features. We propose shifting this burden to the robot. Our key insight is that the same information that tells the robot what it doesn't know can help it ask better questions. Preference queries offer a low-effort channel for resolving this uncertainty, but only if the robot knows where to direct them and the human knows what to attend to when answering. We act on this insight in two ways: we build an informed prior that targets preference queries at the features that need resolving, and we accompany each query with an explanation that focuses the human's attention on exactly those features. In simulation, the informed prior beats the standard active preference learning baseline by up to $30.8\%$ in the low-query regime, where reducing human effort matters most. In a user study, the informed prior and explanations each significantly improve reward recovery and amplify each other.