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AI assistants can now learn user preferences by proposing edits

Researchers have introduced ProSE, a novel framework for AI assistants that accounts for user bounded rationality when generating proposals. Unlike previous methods that focus solely on proposal quality or user goal inference, ProSE's proposals also serve as probes to learn latent user preferences and evaluation constraints. This approach, formalized as a hidden-parameter sequential assistance problem, uses a KL-regularised bounded-rational binary response model to balance value gain against an evaluability penalty. A depth-2 Bayes-adaptive planner, ProSE-Plan, was developed and demonstrated in simulations to improve over baselines when evaluation cost is a bottleneck, by selecting more informative proposals. AI

IMPACT This research could lead to AI assistants that are more effective by better understanding and adapting to user evaluation limitations.

RANK_REASON Academic paper proposing a new AI assistance framework. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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AI assistants can now learn user preferences by proposing edits

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COVERAGE [2]

  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Yifan Zhu, Sammie Katt, Samuel Kaski ·

    Propose to Learn, Learn to Propose: Evaluability-Aware Assistance under Bounded Rationality

    arXiv:2609.02242v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI assistants often collaborate by proposing candidate edits, plans, or designs that users evaluate before adoption. Existing assistance methods focus on proposal quality or user-goal inference, often assuming that the user can reli…

  2. arXiv cs.MA (Multiagent) TIER_1 English(EN) · Samuel Kaski ·

    Propose to Learn, Learn to Propose: Evaluability-Aware Assistance under Bounded Rationality

    AI assistants often collaborate by proposing candidate edits, plans, or designs that users evaluate before adoption. Existing assistance methods focus on proposal quality or user-goal inference, often assuming that the user can reliably evaluate any proposal, which can fail in pr…