human

Definition

Marks human involvement or a human baseline: human evaluation, human feedback, human-level performance. It shows up where automatic metrics are known to be inadequate — open-ended generation quality, helpfulness, safety judgments. The catch is cost and reliability: human ratings are slow, expensive, and vary between annotators, so papers should report inter-rater agreement alongside the scores.

Explainers using this term

• Paper Explained: Holi-World — Turning First-Person Recordings into a Ledger of the Room, Then Teaching a VLM to Reason over ItHoli-World: Building Holistic World Intelligence from Human-Ego Experience
• Paper Explained: Steering Geometry — Do LLM Steering Vectors Trace the Map of Human Values?Steering Geometry: Validating Human Value Geometry in LLM Steering Space
• Paper Walkthrough — RoboTok: Mining the Web for Demonstrations That Move Like YoursRoboTok: An Internet-Scale Data Engine for Human Demonstration Retrieval and Dexterous Manipulation Learning