Boyuan Chen

Boyuan Chen

@boyuan-chen.bsky.social

Assistant Professor at Duke University. Robotics and AI. http://boyuanchen.com/

1,480 Followers 545 Following 12 Posts Joined Nov 2024
1 year ago
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GUIDE is built upon our recent platform CREW. Please check it out as well. Many has started using CREW in their research!

generalroboticslab.com/CREW/

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Website with video, code, and paper: generalroboticslab.com/GUIDE
Duke' press release: pratt.duke.edu/news/trainin...

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Read the Full Paper Dive into GUIDE’s technical details and our exciting findings. Explore the future of human-in-the-loop learning! Kudos to our team Lingyu Zhang, Zhengran Ji, and Nicholas Waytowich!

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Human Cognitive Tests: We didn’t just study AI - we looked at humans too! Cognitive tests revealed how individual differences impact training outcomes, helping us understand how diverse skills translate to better AI guidance. #Neuroscience #HumanFactors

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How Does It Perform? Our experiments show GUIDE delivers 30% higher success rates than baseline RL models in complex tasks like navigation and multi-agent hide-and-seek. And with just 10 minutes of human feedback, it surpasses previous methods by up to 40%.

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Mimicking Human Feedback: After initial training, GUIDE keeps improving! While the human is providing feedback, we train a feedback model that replicates human guidance, allowing the agent to continue learning independently. This reduces human effort and ensures robust, ongoing performance gains.

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Continuous Human Guidance: GUIDE’s interface allows continuous feedback - no more simple “yes/no” or “good/bad” labels. Trainers can provide nuanced guidance at every decision step, making learning more natural and expressive for both AI and trainers.

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Largest Human Studies Ever: Most studies on human-guided AI have involved fewer than 10 participants - often the authors themselves! GUIDE stands apart with the largest human subject study to date in this field, involving 50 participants to rigorously validate our approach.

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Why GUIDE? Real-time decision-making is a tough nut to crack for AI, especially in high-stakes tasks. GUIDE leverages human feedback in real-time, grounding it into _dense rewards_ to accelerate AI learning, even in challenging environments with sparse feedback signals.

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🚀 We’re thrilled to introduce GUIDE - our framework for real-time human-guided reinforcement learning, enabling continuous human feedback to teach AI agents faster and better. Accepted to #NeurIPS2024! Here’s what makes it special:

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That’s amazing! Congratulations!!!

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Just joined the platform. Would love to join the list if possible!

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