Transferring Expert Cognitive Models to Social Robots via Agentic Concept Bottleneck Models

📄 arXiv: 2508.03998v1 📥 PDF

作者: Xinyu Zhao, Zhen Tan, Maya Enisman, Minjae Seo, Marta R. Durantini, Dolores Albarracin, Tianlong Chen

分类: cs.CL

发布日期: 2025-08-06

备注: 27 pages, 7 figures


💡 一句话要点

提出基于概念瓶颈模型的社交机器人以增强会议效果

🎯 匹配领域: 支柱九:具身大模型 (Embodied Foundation Models)

关键词: 社交机器人 概念瓶颈模型 迁移学习 多模态分析 人机交互 透明推理 群体会议 智能助手

📋 核心要点

  1. 现有方法在理解社交动态和提供透明建议方面存在不足,导致主持者难以有效干预群体中的问题。
  2. 论文提出了一种社交机器人共同主持者,利用概念瓶颈模型分析会议数据并提供隐蔽提示,确保推理的透明性。
  3. 实验结果表明,该模型在干预需求预测上显著优于直接的零-shot基础模型,并成功实现了知识迁移。

📝 摘要(中文)

成功的群体会议需要促进个体目标设定与执行,同时增强群体内的社会关系。理想的主持者需敏感于群体中的微妙动态,如个体目标设定的困难和人际关系问题。现有的技术在理解社交交流和提供透明建议方面存在不足。本文提出了一种社交机器人共同主持者,通过分析多模态会议数据,提供隐蔽提示。该机器人的推理基于可解释的人类概念,确保透明性和可信度。我们的核心贡献是一个迁移学习框架,将广泛的社交理解转化为专门的透明模型,显著提升了干预需求的预测能力,并实现了实时人类纠正推理的功能。

🔬 方法详解

问题定义:本文旨在解决社交会议中主持者对个体需求的理解不足,现有方法往往依赖于不透明的黑箱模型,难以提供有效的干预建议。

核心思路:我们提出了一种社交机器人共同主持者,通过概念瓶颈模型(CBM)来分析多模态数据,确保推理过程的可解释性和透明性,从而增强主持者的决策能力。

技术框架:整体架构包括数据采集模块、CBM推理模块和反馈机制。数据采集模块负责收集会议中的多模态信息,CBM推理模块基于人类可理解的概念进行决策,反馈机制则允许实时的人类干预。

关键创新:最重要的创新在于将专家的认知模型迁移到可解释的机器人伙伴中,显著提升了干预需求预测的准确性,与现有方法相比,提供了更高的透明度和信任度。

关键设计:模型设计中采用了特定的损失函数以优化推理的准确性,并通过多层神经网络结构实现对复杂社交动态的建模,确保了模型的泛化能力。

📊 实验亮点

实验结果显示,所提出的模型在干预需求预测上比传统的零-shot基础模型提升了显著的准确性,具体提升幅度达到XX%。此外,模型在不同群体间的知识迁移表现出色,成功将资深主持者的专业知识转移给新手。

🎯 应用场景

该研究的潜在应用领域包括教育、心理咨询和团队管理等社交互动密集的场景。通过增强社交机器人的能力,能够有效支持人类在复杂社交环境中的决策,提高群体会议的效率和效果,未来可能在智能助手和社交机器人领域产生深远影响。

📄 摘要(原文)

Successful group meetings, such as those implemented in group behavioral-change programs, work meetings, and other social contexts, must promote individual goal setting and execution while strengthening the social relationships within the group. Consequently, an ideal facilitator must be sensitive to the subtle dynamics of disengagement, difficulties with individual goal setting and execution, and interpersonal difficulties that signal a need for intervention. The challenges and cognitive load experienced by facilitators create a critical gap for an embodied technology that can interpret social exchanges while remaining aware of the needs of the individuals in the group and providing transparent recommendations that go beyond powerful but "black box" foundation models (FMs) that identify social cues. We address this important demand with a social robot co-facilitator that analyzes multimodal meeting data and provides discreet cues to the facilitator. The robot's reasoning is powered by an agentic concept bottleneck model (CBM), which makes decisions based on human-interpretable concepts like participant engagement and sentiments, ensuring transparency and trustworthiness. Our core contribution is a transfer learning framework that distills the broad social understanding of an FM into our specialized and transparent CBM. This concept-driven system significantly outperforms direct zero-shot FMs in predicting the need for intervention and enables real-time human correction of its reasoning. Critically, we demonstrate robust knowledge transfer: the model generalizes across different groups and successfully transfers the expertise of senior human facilitators to improve the performance of novices. By transferring an expert's cognitive model into an interpretable robotic partner, our work provides a powerful blueprint for augmenting human capabilities in complex social domains.