Short feedback responses, such as backchannels, play an important role in spoken
dialogue. So far, most of the modeling of feedback responses has focused on their timing …

A crucial part of traditional reinforcement learning (RL) is the initial exploration phase, in
which trying available actions randomly is a critical element. As random behavior might be …

The goal of this thesis is to develop computational approaches generating autonomous
social robot behaviors that can interact with multiple people and dynamically adapt to shape …

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disentangling feedback from alignment. We specifically analyze whether formal properties of …