---
license: cc0-1.0
pretty_name: Microduck community feedback
tags:
- microduck
- robotics
- human-feedback
- preference
task_categories:
- text-classification
configs:
- config_name: default
  data_files: "contributions/**/*.jsonl"
---

# Microduck community feedback

What people told [Microduck Studio](https://github.com/craigm26/duck-studio) when they corrected a
proposed plan or chose between two walking ducks. One JSON object per line, in the
[`duck-feedback/0`](https://github.com/craigm26/duckbatch/blob/main/docs/duck-feedback-0.md) format.

- **`route_correction`**: a plain-language router proposed labels for one clause (for example
  "turn left" → `turn_left`), and the person kept, edited or discarded them. These labels
  recalibrate and fine-tune the router.
- **`policy_preference`**: the person watched two trained walkers do the same thing in simulation
  and chose one, called it a tie, or said neither walked well. These are pairwise comparisons,
  with the side each walker was shown on recorded so side bias can be measured.

## How records get here

Nobody uploads to this dataset directly, and the app runs no server. A person who sets
*Share with the community* in the app's Settings can press **Contribute**. That opens a **pull
request** here from their own Hugging Face account. Maintainers check every pull request with
`duckbatch feedback pull --pr <n>` (which fetches it and refuses any record not marked public)
before merging it.

- **Consent is in every record.** Only records whose `consent.share` is `public` are accepted.
  The app sends no others, and the validator refuses them.
- **No personal data in the records.** A record carries no name, account, device identifier or
  location. `id` is a random UUID per record. The only free text is the clause the person typed.
- **The pull request shows the contributor's Hugging Face username.** That is Hugging Face's
  record of who opened it; the app tells the person before they send.
- **Held out from the start.** duckbatch splits by a hash of `id`: 80% train, 20% held out,
  deterministic and never re-drawn. Report anything learned on the held-out part.

## Layout

`contributions/<UTC date>/<random uuid>.jsonl`, one file per pull request.

## Licence

CC0-1.0. Contributors are told this in the app before they send.