Search Results for author: Brent Harrison

Found 22 papers, 3 papers with code

Error Causal inference for Multi-Fusion models

no code implementations NAACL (ALVR) 2021 Chengxi Li, Brent Harrison

In this paper, we propose an error causal inference method that could be used for finding dominant features for a faulty instance under a well-trained multi-modality input model, which could apply to any testing instance.

Caption Generation Causal Inference

Mistake Captioning: A Machine Learning Approach for Detecting Mistakes and Generating Instructive Feedback

no code implementations RANLP 2021 Anton Vinogradov, Andrew Miles Byrd, Brent Harrison

Giving feedback to students is not just about marking their answers as correct or incorrect, but also finding mistakes in their thought process that led them to that incorrect answer.

Machine Learning Approaches for Principle Prediction in Naturally Occurring Stories

no code implementations19 Nov 2022 Md Sultan Al Nahian, Spencer Frazier, Brent Harrison, Mark Riedl

To do this, we extend a dataset that has been previously used to train a binary normative classifier with annotations of moral principles.

StyleM: Stylized Metrics for Image Captioning Built with Contrastive N-grams

no code implementations4 Jan 2022 Chengxi Li, Brent Harrison

In this paper, we build two automatic evaluation metrics for evaluating the association between a machine-generated caption and a ground truth stylized caption: OnlyStyle and StyleCIDEr.

Image Captioning

Using Non-Stationary Bandits for Learning in Repeated Cournot Games with Non-Stationary Demand

no code implementations3 Jan 2022 Kshitija Taywade, Brent Harrison, Judy Goldsmith

We found that using our proposed method, agents are able to swiftly change their course of action according to the changes in demand, and they also engage in collusive behavior in many simulations.

Efficient Exploration

Modelling Cournot Games as Multi-agent Multi-armed Bandits

no code implementations1 Jan 2022 Kshitija Taywade, Brent Harrison, Adib Bagh

We investigate the use of a multi-agent multi-armed bandit (MA-MAB) setting for modeling repeated Cournot oligopoly games, where the firms acting as agents choose from the set of arms representing production quantity (a discrete value).

Multi-Armed Bandits

A Self-Explainable Stylish Image Captioning Framework via Multi-References

no code implementations20 Oct 2021 Chengxi Li, Brent Harrison

In this paper, we propose to build a stylish image captioning model through a Multi-style Multi modality mechanism (2M).

Image Captioning

Training Value-Aligned Reinforcement Learning Agents Using a Normative Prior

no code implementations19 Apr 2021 Md Sultan Al Nahian, Spencer Frazier, Brent Harrison, Mark Riedl

As more machine learning agents interact with humans, it is increasingly a prospect that an agent trained to perform a task optimally, using only a measure of task performance as feedback, can violate societal norms for acceptable behavior or cause harm.

reinforcement-learning Reinforcement Learning (RL)

Influencing Reinforcement Learning through Natural Language Guidance

1 code implementation4 Apr 2021 Tasmia Tasrin, Md Sultan Al Nahian, Habarakadage Perera, Brent Harrison

In this work, we explore how natural language advice can be used to provide a richer feedback signal to a reinforcement learning agent by extending policy shaping, a well-known Interactive reinforcement learning technique.

reinforcement-learning Reinforcement Learning (RL)

3M: Multi-style image caption generation using Multi-modality features under Multi-UPDOWN model

no code implementations20 Mar 2021 Chengxi Li, Brent Harrison

In this paper, we build a multi-style generative model for stylish image captioning which uses multi-modality image features, ResNeXt features and text features generated by DenseCap.

Caption Generation Image Captioning

Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning for Decentralized Stable Matching

no code implementations3 May 2020 Kshitija Taywade, Judy Goldsmith, Brent Harrison

Along with conventional stable matching case where agents have strictly ordered preferences, we check the applicability of our approach for stable matching with incomplete lists and ties.

Fairness Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning +2

Visual Question Answering Using Semantic Information from Image Descriptions

no code implementations23 Apr 2020 Tasmia Tasrin, Md Sultan Al Nahian, Brent Harrison

In this work, we propose a deep neural architecture that uses an attention mechanism which utilizes region based image features, the natural language question asked, and semantic knowledge extracted from the regions of an image to produce open-ended answers for questions asked in a visual question answering (VQA) task.

Question Answering Visual Question Answering

Learning Norms from Stories: A Prior for Value Aligned Agents

no code implementations7 Dec 2019 Spencer Frazier, Md Sultan Al Nahian, Mark Riedl, Brent Harrison

Value alignment is a property of an intelligent agent indicating that it can only pursue goals and activities that are beneficial to humans.

Imitation Learning

A Hierarchical Approach for Visual Storytelling Using Image Description

no code implementations26 Sep 2019 Md Sultan Al Nahian, Tasmia Tasrin, Sagar Gandhi, Ryan Gaines, Brent Harrison

One of the primary challenges of visual storytelling is developing techniques that can maintain the context of the story over long event sequences to generate human-like stories.

Sentence Visual Storytelling

Monte-Carlo Tree Search for Simulation-based Strategy Analysis

no code implementations4 Aug 2019 Alexander Zook, Brent Harrison, Mark O. Riedl

Using these case studies, we show how using simulated agents to model humans of varying skill levels allows us to extract metrics to describe game balance (in the case of Scrabble) and highlight potential design flaws (in the case of Cardonomicon).

Automated Rationale Generation: A Technique for Explainable AI and its Effects on Human Perceptions

no code implementations11 Jan 2019 Upol Ehsan, Pradyumna Tambwekar, Larry Chan, Brent Harrison, Mark Riedl

The second study further explores user preferences between the generated rationales with regard to confidence in the autonomous agent, communicating failure and unexpected behavior.

Explanation Generation

Controllable Neural Story Plot Generation via Reward Shaping

1 code implementation27 Sep 2018 Pradyumna Tambwekar, Murtaza Dhuliawala, Lara J. Martin, Animesh Mehta, Brent Harrison, Mark O. Riedl

Language-modeling--based approaches to story plot generation attempt to construct a plot by sampling from a language model (LM) to predict the next character, word, or sentence to add to the story.

Language Modelling reinforcement-learning +4

Explore, Exploit or Listen: Combining Human Feedback and Policy Model to Speed up Deep Reinforcement Learning in 3D Worlds

no code implementations12 Sep 2017 Zhiyu Lin, Brent Harrison, Aaron Keech, Mark O. Riedl

We describe a method to use discrete human feedback to enhance the performance of deep learning agents in virtual three-dimensional environments by extending deep-reinforcement learning to model the confidence and consistency of human feedback.

reinforcement-learning Reinforcement Learning (RL)

Guiding Reinforcement Learning Exploration Using Natural Language

no code implementations26 Jul 2017 Brent Harrison, Upol Ehsan, Mark O. Riedl

We then use this learned model to guide agent exploration using a modified version of policy shaping to make it more effective at learning in unseen environments.

Machine Translation Q-Learning +3

Event Representations for Automated Story Generation with Deep Neural Nets

1 code implementation5 Jun 2017 Lara J. Martin, Prithviraj Ammanabrolu, Xinyu Wang, William Hancock, Shruti Singh, Brent Harrison, Mark O. Riedl

We then present a technique for automated story generation whereby we decompose the problem into the generation of successive events (event2event) and the generation of natural language sentences from events (event2sentence).

Event Expansion Sentence +2

Enter the Matrix: Safely Interruptible Autonomous Systems via Virtualization

no code implementations30 Mar 2017 Mark O. Riedl, Brent Harrison

It is theoretically possible for an autonomous system with sufficient sensor and effector capability that learn online using reinforcement learning to discover that the kill switch deprives it of long-term reward and thus learn to disable the switch or otherwise prevent a human operator from using the switch.

reinforcement-learning Reinforcement Learning (RL)

Rationalization: A Neural Machine Translation Approach to Generating Natural Language Explanations

no code implementations25 Feb 2017 Upol Ehsan, Brent Harrison, Larry Chan, Mark O. Riedl

Results of these evaluations show that neural machine translation is able to accurately generate rationalizations that describe agent behavior, and that rationalizations are more satisfying to humans than other alternative methods of explanation.

Explanation Generation Machine Translation +1

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