GRACE: Generating Socially Appropriate Robot Actions Leveraging LLMs and Human Explanations

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Main Authors: Dogan, Fethiye Irmak, Ozyurt, Umut, Cinar, Gizem, Gunes, Hatice
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Published: 2024
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author Dogan, Fethiye Irmak
Ozyurt, Umut
Cinar, Gizem
Gunes, Hatice
author_facet Dogan, Fethiye Irmak
Ozyurt, Umut
Cinar, Gizem
Gunes, Hatice
contents When operating in human environments, robots need to handle complex tasks while both adhering to social norms and accommodating individual preferences. For instance, based on common sense knowledge, a household robot can predict that it should avoid vacuuming during a social gathering, but it may still be uncertain whether it should vacuum before or after having guests. In such cases, integrating common-sense knowledge with human preferences, often conveyed through human explanations, is fundamental yet a challenge for existing systems. In this paper, we introduce GRACE, a novel approach addressing this while generating socially appropriate robot actions. GRACE leverages common sense knowledge from LLMs, and it integrates this knowledge with human explanations through a generative network. The bidirectional structure of GRACE enables robots to refine and enhance LLM predictions by utilizing human explanations and makes robots capable of generating such explanations for human-specified actions. Our evaluations show that integrating human explanations boosts GRACE's performance, where it outperforms several baselines and provides sensible explanations.
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spellingShingle GRACE: Generating Socially Appropriate Robot Actions Leveraging LLMs and Human Explanations
Dogan, Fethiye Irmak
Ozyurt, Umut
Cinar, Gizem
Gunes, Hatice
Robotics
When operating in human environments, robots need to handle complex tasks while both adhering to social norms and accommodating individual preferences. For instance, based on common sense knowledge, a household robot can predict that it should avoid vacuuming during a social gathering, but it may still be uncertain whether it should vacuum before or after having guests. In such cases, integrating common-sense knowledge with human preferences, often conveyed through human explanations, is fundamental yet a challenge for existing systems. In this paper, we introduce GRACE, a novel approach addressing this while generating socially appropriate robot actions. GRACE leverages common sense knowledge from LLMs, and it integrates this knowledge with human explanations through a generative network. The bidirectional structure of GRACE enables robots to refine and enhance LLM predictions by utilizing human explanations and makes robots capable of generating such explanations for human-specified actions. Our evaluations show that integrating human explanations boosts GRACE's performance, where it outperforms several baselines and provides sensible explanations.
title GRACE: Generating Socially Appropriate Robot Actions Leveraging LLMs and Human Explanations
topic Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.16879