Communicating with Computers

The vision of this project (under the DARPA CwC grant) is to build smart machines that enable “Artificial Intelligence” agents and humans to interact seamlessly, make decisions and solve problems together and learn from each other as well as complement each others capabilities. An over-arching framework for human-machine collaboration involving multiple human (non)experts and machines through varied modalities and protocols of interaction. Concept learning/teaching, collaborative planning, domain transfer/extension and higher level knowledge induction are some of the avenues that we are presently investigating.

Publications:

• Das, M., Odom, P., Islam, M.R., Doppa, J., Roth, D., & Natarajan, S., “Preference- Guided Planning: An Active Elicitation Approach”, International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS) 2018.
• Das, M., Islam, M.R., Doppa, J.R., Roth, D., & Natarajan, S., “Active Preference Elicitation for Planning”, Human-Machine Collaborative Learning workshop(@ AAAI) 2017.
• Narayan-Chen A., Graber C., Das M., Islam M.R., Dan S., Natarajan S., Doppa J.R., Hockenmaier J., Palmer M., Roth D., “Towards Problem Solving Agents that Communicate and Learn.” Workshop on Language Grounding for Robotics at ACL 2017.
• Das, M., & Odom, P., & Islam, M.R., & Doppa, J., & Roth, D., & Natarajan, S., “Preference Guided Planning: An Active Elicitation Approach”, International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS) 2018.
• Das, M., & Odom, P., & Islam, M.R., & Doppa, J., & Roth, D., & Natarajan, S., “Planning with actively eliciting preferences”, Knowledge-Based Systems 2019
• Das, M., & Ramanan, N., & Doppa, J.R., & Natarajan, S., “One-Shot Induction of Generalized Logical Concepts via Human Guidance”, Workshop on Statistical Relational AI (StarAI) 2020.
• Das, M., & Ramanan, N., & Doppa, J.R., & Natarajan, S., “Few-Shot Induction of Generalized Logical Concepts via Human Guidance”, Computational Intelligence in Robotics, Frontiers in Robotics and AI 2020.
• Kumaraswamy, R., & Ramanan, N., & Odom, P., & Natarajan, S., “Interactive Transfer Learning in Relational Domains”, KUIN Springer Journal 2020
• Kokel, H., & Das, M., & Islam, R., & Bonn, J., & Cai, J., & Dan, S., & Narayan-Chen, A., & Jayannavar, P., & Doppa, J.R., & Hockenmaier, J., & Natarajan, S., & Palmer, M., & Roth, D., “Human-guided Collaborative Problem Solving: A Natural Language based Framework”, Thirty First International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS) 2021.