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Inverse Active Sensing: Modeling and Understanding Timely Decision-Making
Daniel Jarrett · Mihaela van der Schaar

Tue Jul 14 09:00 AM -- 09:45 AM & Wed Jul 15 08:00 PM -- 08:45 PM (PDT) @
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Evidence-based decision-making entails collecting (costly) observations about an underlying phenomenon of interest, and subsequently committing to an (informed) decision on the basis of accumulated evidence. In this setting, active sensing is the goal-oriented problem of efficiently selecting which acquisitions to make, and when and what decision to settle on. As its complement, inverse active sensing seeks to uncover an agent's preferences and strategy given their observable decision-making behavior. In this paper, we develop an expressive, unified framework for the general setting of evidence-based decision-making under endogenous, context-dependent time pressure---which requires negotiating (subjective) tradeoffs between accuracy, speediness, and cost of information. Using this language, we demonstrate how it enables modeling intuitive notions of surprise, suspense, and optimality in decision strategies (the forward problem). Finally, we illustrate how this formulation enables understanding decision-making behavior by quantifying preferences implicit in observed decision strategies (the inverse problem).

Keywords: Accountability, Transparency and Interpretability · Other

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Daniel Jarrett (University of Cambridge)
Mihaela van der Schaar (University of Cambridge and UCLA)

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