Representational Alignment Supports Effective Machine Teaching

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: Representational Alignment Supports Effective Machine Teaching
المؤلفون: Sucholutsky, Ilia, Collins, Katherine M., Malaviya, Maya, Jacoby, Nori, Liu, Weiyang, Sumers, Theodore R., Korakakis, Michalis, Bhatt, Umang, Ho, Mark, Tenenbaum, Joshua B., Love, Brad, Pardos, Zachary A., Weller, Adrian, Griffiths, Thomas L.
سنة النشر: 2024
المجموعة: Computer Science
مصطلحات موضوعية: Computer Science - Machine Learning
الوصف: A good teacher should not only be knowledgeable; but should be able to communicate in a way that the student understands -- to share the student's representation of the world. In this work, we integrate insights from machine teaching and pragmatic communication with the burgeoning literature on representational alignment to characterize a utility curve defining a relationship between representational alignment and teacher capability for promoting student learning. To explore the characteristics of this utility curve, we design a supervised learning environment that disentangles representational alignment from teacher accuracy. We conduct extensive computational experiments with machines teaching machines, complemented by a series of experiments in which machines teach humans. Drawing on our findings that improved representational alignment with a student improves student learning outcomes (i.e., task accuracy), we design a classroom matching procedure that assigns students to teachers based on the utility curve. If we are to design effective machine teachers, it is not enough to build teachers that are accurate -- we want teachers that can align, representationally, to their students too.
Comment: Preprint
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/2406.04302
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.2406.04302
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv