Estimating cognitive biases with attention-aware inverse planning

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Main Authors: Banerjee, Sounak, Cornelisse, Daphne, Gopinath, Deepak, Sumner, Emily, DeCastro, Jonathan, Rosman, Guy, Vinitsky, Eugene, Ho, Mark K.
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author Banerjee, Sounak
Cornelisse, Daphne
Gopinath, Deepak
Sumner, Emily
DeCastro, Jonathan
Rosman, Guy
Vinitsky, Eugene
Ho, Mark K.
author_facet Banerjee, Sounak
Cornelisse, Daphne
Gopinath, Deepak
Sumner, Emily
DeCastro, Jonathan
Rosman, Guy
Vinitsky, Eugene
Ho, Mark K.
contents People's goal-directed behaviors are influenced by their cognitive biases, and autonomous systems that interact with people should be aware of this. For example, people's attention to objects in their environment will be biased in a way that systematically affects how they perform everyday tasks such as driving to work. Here, building on recent work in computational cognitive science, we formally articulate the attention-aware inverse planning problem, in which the goal is to estimate a person's attentional biases from their actions. We demonstrate how attention-aware inverse planning systematically differs from standard inverse reinforcement learning and how cognitive biases can be inferred from behavior. Finally, we present an approach to attention-aware inverse planning that combines deep reinforcement learning with computational cognitive modeling. We use this approach to infer the attentional strategies of RL agents in real-life driving scenarios selected from the Waymo Open Dataset, demonstrating the scalability of estimating cognitive biases with attention-aware inverse planning.
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spellingShingle Estimating cognitive biases with attention-aware inverse planning
Banerjee, Sounak
Cornelisse, Daphne
Gopinath, Deepak
Sumner, Emily
DeCastro, Jonathan
Rosman, Guy
Vinitsky, Eugene
Ho, Mark K.
Artificial Intelligence
People's goal-directed behaviors are influenced by their cognitive biases, and autonomous systems that interact with people should be aware of this. For example, people's attention to objects in their environment will be biased in a way that systematically affects how they perform everyday tasks such as driving to work. Here, building on recent work in computational cognitive science, we formally articulate the attention-aware inverse planning problem, in which the goal is to estimate a person's attentional biases from their actions. We demonstrate how attention-aware inverse planning systematically differs from standard inverse reinforcement learning and how cognitive biases can be inferred from behavior. Finally, we present an approach to attention-aware inverse planning that combines deep reinforcement learning with computational cognitive modeling. We use this approach to infer the attentional strategies of RL agents in real-life driving scenarios selected from the Waymo Open Dataset, demonstrating the scalability of estimating cognitive biases with attention-aware inverse planning.
title Estimating cognitive biases with attention-aware inverse planning
topic Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.25951