Plan explanations as model reconciliation: Moving beyond explanation as soliloquy

Tathagata Chakraborti, Sarath Sreedharan, Yu Zhang, Subbarao Kambhampati

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Abstract

When AI systems interact with humans in the loop, they are often called on to provide explanations for their plans and behavior. Past work on plan explanations primarily involved the AI system explaining the correctness of its plan and the rationale for its decision in terms of its own model. Such soliloquy is wholly inadequate in most realistic scenarios where the humans have domain and task models that differ significantly from that used by the AI system. We posit that the explanations are best studied in light of these differing models. In particular, we show how explanation can be seen as a "model reconciliation problem" (MRP), where the AI system in effect suggests changes to the human's model, so as to make its plan be optimal with respect to that changed human model. We will study the properties of such explanations, present algorithms for automatically computing them, and evaluate the performance of the algorithms.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication26th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 2017
EditorsCarles Sierra
PublisherInternational Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence
Pages156-163
Number of pages8
ISBN (Electronic)9780999241103
DOIs
StatePublished - 2017
Event26th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 2017 - Melbourne, Australia
Duration: Aug 19 2017Aug 25 2017

Publication series

NameIJCAI International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Volume0
ISSN (Print)1045-0823

Other

Other26th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 2017
Country/TerritoryAustralia
CityMelbourne
Period8/19/178/25/17

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Artificial Intelligence

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