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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…

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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…

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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…

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