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20182022
most citedLearning to communicate about shared procedural abstractions

8 citations · 22 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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14 papers

cs.CL2022

Abstract Visual Reasoning with Tangram Shapes

Anya Ji, Noriyuki Kojima, Noah Rush +4

We introduce KiloGram, a resource for studying abstract visual reasoning in humans and machines. Drawing on the history of tangram puzzles as stimuli in cognitive science, we build…

cs.CL20226 cited

Identifying concept libraries from language about object structure

Catherine Wong, William P. McCarthy, Gabriel Grand +5

Our understanding of the visual world goes beyond naming objects, encompassing our ability to parse objects into meaningful parts, attributes, and relations. In this work, we lever…

cs.CL2022

Probing BERT's priors with serial reproduction chains

Takateru Yamakoshi, Thomas L. Griffiths, Robert D. Hawkins

Sampling is a promising bottom-up method for exposing what generative models have learned about language, but it remains unclear how to generate representative samples from popular…

cs.CL2021

Open-domain clarification question generation without question examples

Julia White, Gabriel Poesia, Robert Hawkins +2

An overarching goal of natural language processing is to enable machines to communicate seamlessly with humans. However, natural language can be ambiguous or unclear. In cases of u…

cs.CL20218 cited

Learning to communicate about shared procedural abstractions

William P. McCarthy, Robert D. Hawkins, Haoliang Wang +2

Many real-world tasks require agents to coordinate their behavior to achieve shared goals. Successful collaboration requires not only adopting the same communicative conventions, b…

cs.CL20218 cited

Extending rational models of communication from beliefs to actions

Theodore R. Sumers, Robert D. Hawkins, Mark K. Ho +1

Speakers communicate to influence their partner's beliefs and shape their actions. Belief- and action-based objectives have been explored independently in recent computational mode…