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% ---- Conference Papers ----

@inproceedings{fang2025charm,
  title         = {{CHARM}: Considering Human Attributes for Reinforcement Modeling},
  author        = {Fang, Qidi and Yu, Hang and Fang, Shijie and Huang, Jindan and Chen, Qiuyu and Aronson, Reuben M. and Short, Elaine S.},
  booktitle     = {2025 IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN)},
  year          = {2025},
  month         = aug,
  publisher     = {IEEE},
  address       = {Eindhoven, The Netherlands},
  eprint        = {2506.13079},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
  url           = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13079},
  code          = {https://github.com/AABL-Lab/CHARM},
  note          = {Qidi Fang and Hang Yu contributed equally}
}

@inproceedings{fang2025sidetracks,
  title         = {Demonstration Sidetracks: Categorizing Systematic Non-Optimality in Human Demonstrations},
  author        = {Fang, Shijie and Yu, Hang and Fang, Qidi and Aronson, Reuben M. and Short, Elaine S.},
  booktitle     = {2025 IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN)},
  year          = {2025},
  month         = aug,
  publisher     = {IEEE},
  address       = {Eindhoven, The Netherlands},
  eprint        = {2506.11262},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
  url           = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11262},
  dataset       = {https://github.com/AABL-Lab/Human-Demonstration-Sidetracks},
  note          = {Shijie Fang and Hang Yu contributed equally}
}

@inproceedings{ebisu2025seewhatimean,
  title         = {See What I Mean? Expressiveness and Clarity in Robot Display Design},
  author        = {Ebisu, Matthew and Yu, Hang and Aronson, Reuben M. and Short, Elaine S.},
  booktitle     = {2025 IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN)},
  year          = {2025},
  month         = aug,
  publisher     = {IEEE},
  address       = {Eindhoven, The Netherlands},
  eprint        = {2506.16643},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
  url           = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16643},
  code          = {https://github.com/mattufts/huamn_Cozmo_interaction}
}

@inproceedings{yu2024progress,
  title         = {How Much Progress Did I Make? An Unexplored Human Feedback Signal for Teaching Robots},
  author        = {Yu, Hang and Fang, Qidi and Fang, Shijie and Aronson, Reuben M. and Short, Elaine S.},
  booktitle     = {2024 IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN)},
  year          = {2024},
  month         = aug,
  publisher     = {IEEE},
  address       = {Pasadena, CA, USA},
  eprint        = {2407.06459},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
  url           = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.06459},
  dataset       = {https://github.com/TeachingwithProgress/Non-Expert_Demonstrations}
}

@inproceedings{yu2023thumbs,
  title         = {From ``Thumbs Up'' to ``10 out of 10'': Reconsidering Scalar Feedback in Interactive Reinforcement Learning},
  author        = {Yu, Hang and Aronson, Reuben M. and Allen, Katherine H. and Short, Elaine S.},
  booktitle     = {2023 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)},
  year          = {2023},
  month         = oct,
  publisher     = {IEEE},
  address       = {Detroit, MI, USA},
  eprint        = {2311.10284},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
  url           = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.10284}
}

% ---- Journal Publications ----

@article{tan2020topk,
  title         = {Top-{K} Interesting Preference Rules Mining Based on {MaxClique}},
  author        = {Tan, Zheng and Liu, Jing-lei and Yu, Hang and Wei, Wei},
  journal       = {Expert Systems with Applications},
  volume        = {143},
  pages         = {113043},
  year          = {2020},
  publisher     = {Elsevier},
  doi           = {10.1016/j.eswa.2019.113043},
  url           = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2019.113043}
}

@article{yu2020belief,
  title         = {Contextual Preference Collaborative Measure Framework Based on Belief System},
  author        = {Yu, Hang and Wei, Wei and Tan, Zheng and Liu, Jing-lei},
  journal       = {Computer Science (计算机科学)},
  volume        = {47},
  number        = {4},
  pages         = {74--84},
  year          = {2020},
  url           = {https://computerjournals.net/cn/simple_view_abstract.aspx?aid=1510D19A1395533AD2A8D5AF0923A594&jid=64A12D73428C8B8DBFB978D04DFEB3C1}
}

@article{tan2017maxclique,
  title         = {Conditional Preference Mining Based on {MaxClique}},
  author        = {Tan, Zheng and Liu, Jing-lei and Yu, Hang},
  journal       = {Journal of Computer Applications (计算机应用)},
  volume        = {37},
  number        = {11},
  pages         = {3107--3114},
  year          = {2017},
  url           = {https://computerjournals.net/cn/simple_view_abstract.aspx?aid=F1F705A1C719906AB225E536701F0222&jid=831E194C147C78FAAFCC50BC7ADD1732}
}

% ---- Workshops & Doctoral Consortium ----

@inproceedings{yu2025icradc,
  title         = {Enabling Robust Learning from Non-Experts by Leveraging Human Demonstrations and Human Feedback},
  author        = {Yu, Hang and Short, Elaine Schaertl},
  booktitle     = {IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) Doctoral Consortium},
  year          = {2025},
  month         = may,
  publisher     = {IEEE},
  note          = {Doctoral Consortium. Listed on hangyu8123.github.io as "Doctoral Consortium: Human-Robot Interaction via Expressive Human Feedback"}
}

@inproceedings{yu2025phirl,
  title         = {{PHIRL}: Progress-Heuristicized Inverse Reinforcement Learning},
  author        = {Yu, Hang and Staley, James and Fang, Shijie and Gao, Wenchang and Aronson, Reuben M. and Short, Elaine S.},
  booktitle     = {Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) 2025 Workshop on Continual Robot Learning from Humans},
  year          = {2025}
}

@inproceedings{yu2021activefeedback,
  title         = {Active Feedback Learning with Rich Feedback},
  author        = {Yu, Hang and Short, Elaine Schaertl},
  booktitle     = {Companion of the 2021 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI '21 Companion)},
  pages         = {430--433},
  year          = {2021},
  publisher     = {Association for Computing Machinery},
  address       = {New York, NY, USA},
  doi           = {10.1145/3434074.3447207},
  url           = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3434074.3447207}
}