GUIDE: Real-Time Human-Shaped Agents

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Autori principali: Zhang, Lingyu, Ji, Zhengran, Waytowich, Nicholas R, Chen, Boyuan
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Pubblicazione: 2024
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author Zhang, Lingyu
Ji, Zhengran
Waytowich, Nicholas R
Chen, Boyuan
author_facet Zhang, Lingyu
Ji, Zhengran
Waytowich, Nicholas R
Chen, Boyuan
contents The recent rapid advancement of machine learning has been driven by increasingly powerful models with the growing availability of training data and computational resources. However, real-time decision-making tasks with limited time and sparse learning signals remain challenging. One way of improving the learning speed and performance of these agents is to leverage human guidance. In this work, we introduce GUIDE, a framework for real-time human-guided reinforcement learning by enabling continuous human feedback and grounding such feedback into dense rewards to accelerate policy learning. Additionally, our method features a simulated feedback module that learns and replicates human feedback patterns in an online fashion, effectively reducing the need for human input while allowing continual training. We demonstrate the performance of our framework on challenging tasks with sparse rewards and visual observations. Our human study involving 50 subjects offers strong quantitative and qualitative evidence of the effectiveness of our approach. With only 10 minutes of human feedback, our algorithm achieves up to 30% increase in success rate compared to its RL baseline.
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spellingShingle GUIDE: Real-Time Human-Shaped Agents
Zhang, Lingyu
Ji, Zhengran
Waytowich, Nicholas R
Chen, Boyuan
Machine Learning
Human-Computer Interaction
The recent rapid advancement of machine learning has been driven by increasingly powerful models with the growing availability of training data and computational resources. However, real-time decision-making tasks with limited time and sparse learning signals remain challenging. One way of improving the learning speed and performance of these agents is to leverage human guidance. In this work, we introduce GUIDE, a framework for real-time human-guided reinforcement learning by enabling continuous human feedback and grounding such feedback into dense rewards to accelerate policy learning. Additionally, our method features a simulated feedback module that learns and replicates human feedback patterns in an online fashion, effectively reducing the need for human input while allowing continual training. We demonstrate the performance of our framework on challenging tasks with sparse rewards and visual observations. Our human study involving 50 subjects offers strong quantitative and qualitative evidence of the effectiveness of our approach. With only 10 minutes of human feedback, our algorithm achieves up to 30% increase in success rate compared to its RL baseline.
title GUIDE: Real-Time Human-Shaped Agents
topic Machine Learning
Human-Computer Interaction
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.15181