Professor of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
- Date & time
- Monday, March 6, 2023 · 1:00 PM
- Location
- Donald Bren Hall 4011
Abstract
Competence is the ability to do something well. Competence awareness is the ability to represent and learn a model of self competence and use it to decide how to best use the agent's own abilities as well as any available human assistance. This capability is critical for the success and safety of autonomous systems that operate in the open world. In this talk, I introduce two types of competence-aware systems (CAS): Type I refers to a stand-alone system that can learn its own competence and fine-tune itself to the problem instance without human assistance; Type II is a human-aware system that uses a self-competence model to optimize the utilization of costly human assistive actions. I describe recent results that demonstrate the benefits of the two types of competence awareness, including autonomous vehicle decision making.
About the speaker
Shlomo Zilberstein is Professor of Computer Science and Associate Dean for Research and Engagement in the Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences at UMass Amherst. His research focuses on resource-bounded reasoning techniques, which allow complex systems to make decisions while coping with uncertainty, missing information, and limited computational resources. He is a Fellow of AAAI and the ACM and a past Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research.