A process executes a program
Why persistent, goal-directed computation demands first-class budgets, contracts, and oversight
· “Agency as a New Organizing Abstraction for Computer Science”
cs.HC
Human-Computer Interaction
Covers human factors, user interfaces, and collaborative computing. Roughly includes material in ACM Subject Classes H.1.2 and all of H.5, except for H.5.1, which is more likely to have Multimedia as the primary subject area.
Robots learn rewards faster by asking about what they missed
Targeted queries and explanations recover rewards up to 30.8% faster than standard active learning.
· “Asking Smarter Questions: Targeted Active Preference Learning for Underspecified Rewards”
Four layers now govern when an agent asks a human for input
Every answer and every execution result re-enters the same router, so no task is locked to a fixed interaction script.
· “Inflak: A Unified Orchestration Architecture for Human-Agent Interaction”
