Search Results for author: Sarit Kraus

Found 31 papers, 9 papers with code

Explicit Gradient Learning for Black-Box Optimization

no code implementations ICML 2020 Elad Sarafian, Mor Sinay, yoram louzoun, Noa Agmon, Sarit Kraus

We prove the convergence of EGL to a stationary point and its robustness in the optimization of integrable functions.

Image Generation

Intelligent Agents for Auction-based Federated Learning: A Survey

no code implementations20 Apr 2024 Xiaoli Tang, Han Yu, Xiaoxiao Li, Sarit Kraus

To enhance the efficiency in AFL decision support for stakeholders (i. e., data consumers, data owners, and the auctioneer), intelligent agent-based techniques have emerged.

Federated Learning

The Impact of Snippet Reliability on Misinformation in Online Health Search

no code implementations28 Jan 2024 Anat Hashavit, Tamar Stern, Hongning Wang, Sarit Kraus

These results strongly suggest that an information need-focused approach can significantly improve the reliability of extracted snippets in online health search.

Misinformation

Cognitive Effects in Large Language Models

1 code implementation28 Aug 2023 Jonathan Shaki, Sarit Kraus, Michael Wooldridge

Large Language Models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT have received enormous attention over the past year and are now used by hundreds of millions of people every day.

Contrastive Explanations of Centralized Multi-agent Optimization Solutions

no code implementations11 Aug 2023 Parisa Zehtabi, Alberto Pozanco, Ayala Bloch, Daniel Borrajo, Sarit Kraus

We propose CMAoE, a domain-independent approach to obtain contrastive explanations by: (i) generating a new solution $S^\prime$ where property $P$ is enforced, while also minimizing the differences between $S$ and $S^\prime$; and (ii) highlighting the differences between the two solutions, with respect to the features of the objective function of the multi-agent system.

Explainable Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Temporal Queries

1 code implementation17 May 2023 Kayla Boggess, Sarit Kraus, Lu Feng

As multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) systems are increasingly deployed throughout society, it is imperative yet challenging for users to understand the emergent behaviors of MARL agents in complex environments.

Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning reinforcement-learning

A Coupled Flow Approach to Imitation Learning

2 code implementations29 Apr 2023 Gideon Freund, Elad Sarafian, Sarit Kraus

In reinforcement learning and imitation learning, an object of central importance is the state distribution induced by the policy.

Density Estimation Imitation Learning

Resource Sharing Through Multi-Round Matchings

1 code implementation30 Nov 2022 Yohai Trabelsi, Abhijin Adiga, Sarit Kraus, S. S. Ravi, Daniel J. Rosenkrantz

For a general class of benefit functions satisfying certain properties (including diminishing returns), we show that this multi-round matching problem is efficiently solvable.

Artificial Intelligence and Life in 2030: The One Hundred Year Study on Artificial Intelligence

no code implementations31 Oct 2022 Peter Stone, Rodney Brooks, Erik Brynjolfsson, Ryan Calo, Oren Etzioni, Greg Hager, Julia Hirschberg, Shivaram Kalyanakrishnan, Ece Kamar, Sarit Kraus, Kevin Leyton-Brown, David Parkes, William Press, AnnaLee Saxenian, Julie Shah, Milind Tambe, Astro Teller

In September 2016, Stanford's "One Hundred Year Study on Artificial Intelligence" project (AI100) issued the first report of its planned long-term periodic assessment of artificial intelligence (AI) and its impact on society.

Resource Allocation to Agents with Restrictions: Maximizing Likelihood with Minimum Compromise

1 code implementation12 Sep 2022 Yohai Trabelsi, Abhijin Adiga, Sarit Kraus, S. S. Ravi

Our focus is on resource allocation problems where agents may have restrictions that make them incompatible with some resources.

Efficient Customer Service Combining Human Operators and Virtual Agents

no code implementations12 Sep 2022 Yaniv Oshrat, Yonatan Aumann, Tal Hollander, Oleg Maksimov, Anita Ostroumov, Natali Shechtman, Sarit Kraus

The prospect of combining human operators and virtual agents (bots) into an effective hybrid system that provides proper customer service to clients is promising yet challenging.

Not Just Skipping. Understanding the Effect of Sponsored Content on Users' Decision-Making in Online Health Search

no code implementations10 Jul 2022 Anat Hashavit, Hongning Wang, Tamar Stern, Sarit Kraus

We further discover that the contrast between the indirect marketing ads and the viewpoint presented in the organic search results plays an important role in users' decision-making.

Decision Making Marketing

Justifying Social-Choice Mechanism Outcome for Improving Participant Satisfaction

no code implementations24 May 2022 Sharadhi Alape Suryanarayana, David Sarne, Sarit Kraus

In many social-choice mechanisms the resulting choice is not the most preferred one for some of the participants, thus the need for methods to justify the choice made in a way that improves the acceptance and satisfaction of said participants.

Robust Solutions for Multi-Defender Stackelberg Security Games

no code implementations29 Apr 2022 Dolev Mutzari, Yonatan Aumann, Sarit Kraus

In this paper, we introduce a robust model for MSSGs, which admits solutions that are resistant to small perturbations or uncertainties in the game's parameters.

Toward Policy Explanations for Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

1 code implementation26 Apr 2022 Kayla Boggess, Sarit Kraus, Lu Feng

Advances in multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) enable sequential decision making for a range of exciting multi-agent applications such as cooperative AI and autonomous driving.

Autonomous Driving Decision Making +3

Explaining Preference-driven Schedules: the EXPRES Framework

no code implementations16 Mar 2022 Alberto Pozanco, Francesca Mosca, Parisa Zehtabi, Daniele Magazzeni, Sarit Kraus

The EXPRES framework consists of: (i) an explanation generator that, based on a Mixed-Integer Linear Programming model, finds the best set of reasons that can explain an unsatisfied preference; and (ii) an explanation parser, which translates the generated explanations into human interpretable ones.

Scheduling

Uncertainty with UAV Search of Multiple Goal-oriented Targets

1 code implementation3 Mar 2022 Mor Sinay, Noa Agmon, Oleg Maksimov, Aviad Fux, Sarit Kraus

We suggest a real-time algorithmic framework for the UAVs, combining entropy and stochastic-temporal belief, that aims at optimizing the probability of a quick and successful detection of all of the targets.

Recomposing the Reinforcement Learning Building Blocks with Hypernetworks

1 code implementation12 Jun 2021 Shai Keynan, Elad Sarafian, Sarit Kraus

In particular, the input of the Q-function is both the state and the action, and in multi-task problems (Meta-RL) the policy can take a state and a context.

reinforcement-learning Reinforcement Learning (RL)

Advising Agent for Service-Providing Live-Chat Operators

no code implementations9 May 2021 Aviram Aviv, Yaniv Oshrat, Samuel A. Assefa, Tobi Mustapha, Daniel Borrajo, Manuela Veloso, Sarit Kraus

Call centers, in which human operators attend clients using textual chat, are very common in modern e-commerce.

Broadly Applicable Targeted Data Sample Omission Attacks

no code implementations4 May 2021 Guy Barash, Eitan Farchi, Sarit Kraus, Onn Shehory

We show that, with a low attack budget, our attack's success rate is above 80%, and in some cases 100%, for white-box learning.

PAC learning

DeepTake: Prediction of Driver Takeover Behavior using Multimodal Data

no code implementations31 Dec 2020 Erfan Pakdamanian, Shili Sheng, Sonia Baee, Seongkook Heo, Sarit Kraus, Lu Feng

Nevertheless, automated vehicles may still need to occasionally hand the control back to drivers due to technology limitations and legal requirements.

Explicit Gradient Learning

no code implementations9 Jun 2020 Mor Sinay, Elad Sarafian, yoram louzoun, Noa Agmon, Sarit Kraus

Instead of fitting the function, EGL trains a NN to estimate the objective gradient directly.

Image Generation

AI for Explaining Decisions in Multi-Agent Environments

no code implementations10 Oct 2019 Sarit Kraus, Amos Azaria, Jelena Fiosina, Maike Greve, Noam Hazon, Lutz Kolbe, Tim-Benjamin Lembcke, Jörg P. Müller, Sören Schleibaum, Mark Vollrath

Explanation is necessary for humans to understand and accept decisions made by an AI system when the system's goal is known.

Fairness

Safe Policy Learning from Observations

no code implementations27 Sep 2018 Elad Sarafian, Aviv Tamar, Sarit Kraus

The primary advantages of our approach, termed Rerouted Behavior Improvement (RBI), over other safe learning methods are its stability in the presence of value estimation errors and the elimination of a policy search process.

Providing Explanations for Recommendations in Reciprocal Environments

no code implementations3 Jul 2018 Akiva Kleinerman, Ariel Rosenfeld, Sarit Kraus

These platforms often include recommender systems that assist users in finding a suitable match.

Recommendation Systems

Constrained Policy Improvement for Safe and Efficient Reinforcement Learning

1 code implementation20 May 2018 Elad Sarafian, Aviv Tamar, Sarit Kraus

To minimize the improvement penalty, the RBI idea is to attenuate rapid policy changes of low probability actions which were less frequently sampled.

reinforcement-learning Reinforcement Learning (RL)

Learning to Schedule Deadline- and Operator-Sensitive Tasks

no code implementations19 Jun 2017 Hanan Rosemarin, John P. Dickerson, Sarit Kraus

The use of semi-autonomous and autonomous robotic assistants to aid in care of the elderly is expected to ease the burden on human caretakers, with small-stage testing already occurring in a variety of countries.

Scheduling

Human-Agent Decision-making: Combining Theory and Practice

no code implementations24 Jun 2016 Sarit Kraus

In this paper we will consider the question of whether strategies implied by theories of strategic behavior can be used by automated agents that interact proficiently with people.

Decision Making

Psychologically based Virtual-Suspect for Interrogative Interview Training

no code implementations31 May 2016 Moshe Bitan, Galit Nahari, Zvi Nisin, Ariel Roth, Sarit Kraus

In this paper, we present a Virtual-Suspect system which can be used to train inexperienced law enforcement personnel in interrogation strategies.

Using the Crowd to Generate Content for Scenario-Based Serious-Games

no code implementations20 Feb 2014 Sigal Sina, Sarit Kraus, Avi Rosenfeld

We found that the generated scenarios were rated as reliable and consistent by the crowd when compared to the scenarios that were originally captured.

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