A Unifying Bayesian Formulation of Measures of Interpretability in Human-AI Interaction

Sarath Sreedharan, Anagha Kulkarni, David E. Smith, Subbarao Kambhampati

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Abstract

Existing approaches for generating human-aware agent behaviors have considered different measures of interpretability in isolation. Further, these measures have been studied under differing assumptions, thus precluding the possibility of designing a single framework that captures these measures under the same assumptions. In this paper, we present a unifying Bayesian framework that models a human observer's evolving beliefs about an agent and thereby define the problem of Generalized Human-Aware Planning. We will show that the definitions of interpretability measures like explicability, legibility and predictability from the prior literature fall out as special cases of our general framework. Through this framework, we also bring a previously ignored fact to light that the human-robot interactions are in effect open-world problems, with respect to the human's beliefs about the agent. The human may hold beliefs unknown to the agent and may also form new hypotheses about the agent when presented with novel or unexpected behaviors.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 30th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 2021
EditorsZhi-Hua Zhou
PublisherInternational Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence
Pages4602-4610
Number of pages9
ISBN (Electronic)9780999241196
StatePublished - 2021
Event30th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 2021 - Virtual, Online, Canada
Duration: Aug 19 2021Aug 27 2021

Publication series

NameIJCAI International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
ISSN (Print)1045-0823

Conference

Conference30th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 2021
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityVirtual, Online
Period8/19/218/27/21

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Artificial Intelligence

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