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Daniel Brown

@daniel-brown.bsky.social
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CS assistant prof @Utah. Researches human-robot interaction, human-in-the-loop ML, AI safety and alignment. users.cs.utah.edu/~dsbrown

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Daniel Brown @daniel-brown.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Excited to share our new paper on implicit safety alignment from crowd feedback that was accepted at ICML! We learn shared safety constraints from crowd feedback and show this can help alleviate reward misspecification. Kudos to my PhD student Qian Lin! Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2605.21822 🧵1/7
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Implicit Safety Alignment from Crowd Preferences
Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) can reveal implicit objectives such as safety considerations that go beyond task completion. In this work, we focus on the common safety criteria embe...
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Daniel Brown @daniel-brown.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Our paper "A Multi-Layer Sim-to-Real Framework for Gaze-Driven Assistive Neck Exoskeletons" is being presented this week at ICRA 2026! arxiv.org/abs/2603.06779 🧵1/8
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Daniel Brown @daniel-brown.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Super excited about our lab's new paper led by my PhD student Zifan Wu: "Understanding the Effects of Neuron Dominance in Deep Reinforcement Learning", that has been published in Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR)! openreview.net/forum?id=VNV... 1/N
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Understanding the Effects of Neuron Dominance in Deep Reinforcement...
Recent studies in deep reinforcement learning have revealed that neural networks tend to lose their capacity to adapt to new targets over the course of training. The proliferation of inactive...
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Daniel Brown @daniel-brown.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
How can you do imitation learning for multi-agent systems if the demonstrator is just a single human? Unless you're a doctor octopus genius, this is really hard! We study this problem in a new paper that will be at ICRA'26! 1/N
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Daniel Brown @daniel-brown.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
The Kahlert School of Computing at the University of Utah is hiring for multiple faculty positions! We're especially interested in growing in the areas of human-centered AI and robotics! utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/190...
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Assistant Professor for The Kahlert School of Computing
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Daniel Brown @daniel-brown.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Can you trust your reward model alignment scores? New work presented today at the COLM Workshop on Socially Responsible Language Modelling Research led by Purbid Bambroo and in collaboration with @anamarasovic.bsky.social that probes LLM preference test sets for redundancy and inflated scores. 1/8
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Daniel Brown @daniel-brown.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Check out our new paper being presented today at #CoRL2025 on uncertainty quantification: openreview.net/forum?id=K7K.... We propose a new second-order metric for uncertainty quantification in robot learning that we call "Agreement Volatility." 1/5
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Daniel Brown @daniel-brown.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Excited to announce that my lab's research was recently highlighted in an AI Magazine article: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
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Toward robust, interactive, and human‐aligned AI systems
Ensuring that AI systems do what we, as humans, actually want them to do is one of the biggest open research challenges in AI alignment and safety. My research seeks to directly address this challeng...
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Daniel Brown @daniel-brown.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Shared autonomy systems have been around for a long time but most approaches require a learned or specified set of possible human goals or intents. I'm excited for my student Connor Mattson to present our work at #HRI2025 on a zero-shot, vision-only shared autonomy (VOSA) framework. 1/3
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Daniel Brown @daniel-brown.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Excited to announce that I've been invited to give a talk at AAAI-25 on "Leveraging Human Input to Enable Robust, Interactive, and Aligned AI Systems" as part of their New Faculty Highlights program!
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