A Factor-Based Framework for Decision-Making Competency Self-Assessment

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2203.11981v1
• Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2022 18:19:10 GMT
• Title: A Factor-Based Framework for Decision-Making Competency Self-Assessment
• Authors: Brett W. Israelsen, Nisar Ahmed
• Abstract summary: We develop a framework for generating succinct human-understandable competency self-assessments in terms of machine self confidence. We combine several aspects of probabilistic meta reasoning for algorithmic planning and decision-making under uncertainty to arrive at a novel set of generalizable self-confidence factors.
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• Abstract: We summarize our efforts to date in developing a framework for generating succinct human-understandable competency self-assessments in terms of machine self confidence, i.e. a robot's self-trust in its functional abilities to accomplish assigned tasks. Whereas early work explored machine self-confidence in ad hoc ways for niche applications, our Factorized Machine Self-Confidence framework introduces and combines several aspects of probabilistic meta reasoning for algorithmic planning and decision-making under uncertainty to arrive at a novel set of generalizable self-confidence factors, which can support competency assessment for a wide variety of problems.

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