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Nicholay Topin

3 accepted papers

2022

Use-Case-Grounded Simulations for Explanation Evaluation

NeurIPS 2022accept

A growing body of research runs human subject evaluations to study whether providing users with explanations of machine learning models can help them with practical real-world use cases. However, running user studies is challenging and costly, and consequently each study typically only evaluates a l…

Cited by 22SourcePDFScholar
2021

Iterative Bounding MDPs: Learning Interpretable Policies via Non-Interpretable Methods

AAAI 2021technical

Current work in explainable reinforcement learning generally produces policies in the form of a decision tree over the state space. Such policies can be used for formal safety verification, agent behavior prediction, and manual inspection of important features. However, existing approaches fit a dec…

Cited by 44SourcePDFScholar
2019

Online Planning for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles Performing Information Gathering Tasks in Large Subsea Environments

IROS 2019poster

We present an anytime Monte Carlo tree search (MCTS) algorithm to generate real-time, near-optimal search paths in large subsea environments. The MCTS planner continuously builds a tree of the search space until either the allowed time per move is reached or the budget constraint for the search miss…

Cited by 8SourceScholar