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Characterizing the dynamics of learning in repeated reference games
Robert D. Hawkins, Michael C. Frank, Noah D. Goodman
The language we use over the course of conversation changes as we establish common ground and learn what our partner finds meaningful. Here we draw upon recent advances in natural…
Continual adaptation for efficient machine communication
Robert D. Hawkins, Minae Kwon, Dorsa Sadigh +1
To communicate with new partners in new contexts, humans rapidly form new linguistic conventions. Recent neural language models are able to comprehend and produce the existing conv…
ShapeGlot: Learning Language for Shape Differentiation
Panos Achlioptas, Judy Fan, Robert X. D. Hawkins +2
In this work we explore how fine-grained differences between the shapes of common objects are expressed in language, grounded on images and 3D models of the objects. We first build…
Pragmatic inference and visual abstraction enable contextual flexibility during visual communication
Judith Fan, Robert Hawkins, Mike Wu +1
Visual modes of communication are ubiquitous in modern life --- from maps to data plots to political cartoons. Here we investigate drawing, the most basic form of visual communicat…
When redundancy is useful: A Bayesian approach to 'overinformative' referring expressions
Judith Degen, Robert D. Hawkins, Caroline Graf +2
Referring is one of the most basic and prevalent uses of language. How do speakers choose from the wealth of referring expressions at their disposal? Rational theories of language…