Rachel Freedman

PhD student, University of California Berkeley

Joined

July 2019

Names

Rachel Freedman

Emails

****@gmail.com (Confirmed)

****@berkeley.edu (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

PhD student

University of California Berkeley (berkeley.edu)

2019 – Present

Undergrad student

Duke University (duke.edu)

2013 – 2017

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Stuart Russell

2019 – Present

Expertise

reinforcement learning

artificial intelligence

Present

value learning

reward inference

human modeling

Present

Publications

Active Teacher Selection for Reward Learning
Rachel Freedman, Justin Svegliato, Kyle Hollins Wray, Stuart Russell
- Accepted by TMLR
- Readers: Everyone
Improving Reward Learning by Estimating Annotator Expertise
Pavel Czempin, Rachel Freedman, Ellen Novoseller, Vernon Lawhern, Cameron Allen, Erdem Biyik
- CRLH Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Linear Probe Penalties Reduce LLM Sycophancy
Henry Papadatos, Rachel Freedman
- SoLaR Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Social Choice Should Guide AI Alignment in Dealing with Diverse Human Feedback
Vincent Conitzer, Rachel Freedman, Jobst Heitzig, Wesley H. Holliday, Bob M. Jacobs, Nathan Lambert, Milan Mosse, Eric Pacuit, Stuart Russell, Hailey Schoelkopf, Emanuel Tewolde, William S. Zwicker
- IJCAI 2024 Workshop AIGOV
- Readers: Everyone
Position: Social Choice Should Guide AI Alignment in Dealing with Diverse Human Feedback
Vincent Conitzer, Rachel Freedman, Jobst Heitzig, Wesley H. Holliday, Bob M. Jacobs, Nathan Lambert, Milan Mossé, Eric Pacuit, Stuart Russell, Hailey Schoelkopf, Emanuel Tewolde, William S. Zwicker
- ICML 2024 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Active Teacher Selection for Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback
Rachel Freedman, Justin Svegliato, Kyle Hollins Wray, Stuart Russell
- Submitted to ICLR 2024
- Readers: Everyone
Open Problems and Fundamental Limitations of Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback
Stephen Casper, Xander Davies, Claudia Shi, Thomas Krendl Gilbert, Jérémy Scheurer, Javier Rando, Rachel Freedman, Tomek Korbak, David Lindner, Pedro Freire, Tony Tong Wang, Samuel Marks, Charbel-Raphael Segerie, Micah Carroll, Andi Peng, Phillip J.K. Christoffersen, Mehul Damani, Stewart Slocum, Usman Anwar, Anand Siththaranjan et al. (12 additional authors not shown)
- Accepted by TMLR
- Readers: Everyone
The Expertise Problem: Learning from Specialized Feedback
Oliver Daniels-Koch, Rachel Freedman
- Published: 05 Dec 2022, Last Modified: 15 Feb 2026
- MLSW2022
- Readers: Everyone
Benefits of Assistance over Reward Learning
Rohin Shah, Pedro Freire, Neel Alex, Rachel Freedman, Dmitrii Krasheninnikov, Lawrence Chan, Michael D Dennis, Pieter Abbeel, Anca Dragan, Stuart Russell
- 28 Sept 2020 (modified: 05 May 2023)
- ICLR 2021 Conference Blind Submission
- Readers: Everyone
Adapting a Kidney Exchange Algorithm to Align With Human Values
Rachel Freedman, Jana Schaich Borg, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, John P. Dickerson, Vincent Conitzer
- 2018 (modified: 16 Jul 2019)
- AAAI 2018
- Readers: Everyone

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