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Modeling Others' Minds as Code

9 hours ago
  • #Program Synthesis
  • #Human Behavior Modeling
  • #Artificial Intelligence
  • Accurate prediction of human behavior is crucial for safe human-AI collaboration.
  • Existing approaches for modeling people are often data-hungry and brittle.
  • Everyday social interactions may follow predictable patterns or 'scripts' to minimize cognitive load.
  • Proposes modeling routines as behavioral programs in code rather than policies based on beliefs and desires.
  • Introduces ROTE, an algorithm combining LLMs for synthesizing behavioral programs and probabilistic inference for uncertainty.
  • ROTE tested in gridworld tasks and a household simulator, outperforming baselines by up to 50% in accuracy and generalization.
  • Treats action understanding as a program synthesis problem for efficient human behavior prediction.