proactive intervention
When to Ask for Help: Proactive Interventions in Autonomous Reinforcement Learning
A long-term goal of reinforcement learning is to design agents that can autonomously interact and learn in the world. A critical challenge to such autonomy is the presence of irreversible states which require external assistance to recover from, such as when a robot arm has pushed an object off of a table. While standard agents require constant monitoring to decide when to intervene, we aim to design proactive agents that can request human intervention only when needed. To this end, we propose an algorithm that efficiently learns to detect and avoid states that are irreversible, and proactively asks for help in case the agent does enter them. On a suite of continuous control environments with unknown irreversible states, we find that our algorithm exhibits better sample-and intervention-efficiency compared to existing methods.
YETI (YET to Intervene) Proactive Interventions by Multimodal AI Agents in Augmented Reality Tasks
Bandyopadhyay, Saptarashmi, Bahirwani, Vikas, Aggarwal, Lavisha, Guda, Bhanu, Li, Lin, Colaco, Andrea
Multimodal AI Agents are AI models that have the capability of interactively and cooperatively assisting human users to solve day-to-day tasks. Augmented Reality (AR) head worn devices can uniquely improve the user experience of solving procedural day-to-day tasks by providing egocentric multimodal (audio and video) observational capabilities to AI Agents. Such AR capabilities can help AI Agents see and listen to actions that users take which can relate to multimodal capabilities of human users. Existing AI Agents, either Large Language Models (LLMs) or Multimodal Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are reactive in nature, which means that models cannot take an action without reading or listening to the human user's prompts. Proactivity of AI Agents on the other hand can help the human user detect and correct any mistakes in agent observed tasks, encourage users when they do tasks correctly or simply engage in conversation with the user - akin to a human teaching or assisting a user. Our proposed YET to Intervene (YETI) multimodal agent focuses on the research question of identifying circumstances that may require the agent to intervene proactively. This allows the agent to understand when it can intervene in a conversation with human users that can help the user correct mistakes on tasks, like cooking, using AR. Our YETI Agent learns scene understanding signals based on interpretable notions of Structural Similarity (SSIM) on consecutive video frames. We also define the alignment signal which the AI Agent can learn to identify if the video frames corresponding to the user's actions on the task are consistent with expected actions. These signals are used by our AI Agent to determine when it should proactively intervene. We compare our results on the instances of proactive intervention in the HoloAssist multimodal benchmark for an expert agent guiding a user to complete procedural tasks.
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When to Ask for Help: Proactive Interventions in Autonomous Reinforcement Learning
A long-term goal of reinforcement learning is to design agents that can autonomously interact and learn in the world. A critical challenge to such autonomy is the presence of irreversible states which require external assistance to recover from, such as when a robot arm has pushed an object off of a table. While standard agents require constant monitoring to decide when to intervene, we aim to design proactive agents that can request human intervention only when needed. To this end, we propose an algorithm that efficiently learns to detect and avoid states that are irreversible, and proactively asks for help in case the agent does enter them. On a suite of continuous control environments with unknown irreversible states, we find that our algorithm exhibits better sample- and intervention-efficiency compared to existing methods.
Proactive Intervention to Downtrend Employee Attrition using Artificial Intelligence Techniques
Barvey, Aasheesh, Kapila, Jitin, Pathak, Kumarjit
To predict the employee attrition beforehand and to enable management to take individualized preventive action. Using Ensemble classification modeling techniques and Linear Regression. Model could predict over 91% accurate employee prediction, lead-time in separation and individual reasons causing attrition. Prior intimation of employee attrition enables manager to take preventive actions to retain employee or to manage the business consequences of attrition. Once deployed this will model can help in downtrend Employee Attrition, will help manager to manage team more effectively. Model does not cover the natural calamities, and unforeseen events occurring at an individual level like accident, death etc.
Why the customer success market needs chatbots
Front-end bots will proactively engage the customer and will drive the "tech touch" portion of a customer success management coverage model. The other part of this coverage model is direct human interaction, or the "human touch," which complements the use of technology to provide a holistic and high-value customer experience. The ratio of technology to human touch will vary by customer segment. In customer success management, you first need to know where the customer is right now (point A) and what the next milestone along the path to success is for them (point B). To operationalize this process, you need to intervene in the appropriate way to take the steps necessary to move that customer segment from point A to point B. If customers take those steps themselves, that's great.