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title: Rational Inverse Reasoning
url: https://www.emergentmind.com/topics/rational-inverse-reasoning-rir
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# Rational Inverse Reasoning

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arXiv_search query: "Inverse Rational Control 1805.09864 Occam's razor insufficient infer preferences irrational agents 1712.05812 Reasoning-Intensive Retrieval 2605.00063"
Rational Inverse Reasoning (RIR), in the inverse-preference and inverse-control literature, denotes the problem of inferring latent rewards, beliefs, or internal models from observed behavior by assuming that behavior is generated by some form of utility-directed planning. In its canonical form, the observer sees actions, policies, or trajectories and seeks the hidden “reasons” that would make them intelligible under rational or approximately rational choice. The contemporary literature, however, uses neighboring formulations rather than a single standardized framework: some work studies inverse reward inference under unknown irrationality [1712.058

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