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most citedLearning to communicate about shared procedural abstractions

8 citations · 43 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

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cs.MA2022★ 3 cited

Flexible social inference facilitates targeted social learning when rewards are not observable

Robert D. Hawkins, Andrew M. Berdahl, Alex "Sandy" Pentland +3

Groups coordinate more effectively when individuals are able to learn from others' successes. But acquiring such knowledge is not always easy, especially in real-world environments…

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.AI2022★ 5 cited

How to talk so AI will learn: Instructions, descriptions, and autonomy

Theodore R Sumers, Robert D Hawkins, Mark K Ho +2

From the earliest years of our lives, humans use language to express our beliefs and desires. Being able to talk to artificial agents about our preferences would thus fulfill a cen…

cs.CL2022★ 6 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.AI2022★ 7 cited

Using Natural Language and Program Abstractions to Instill Human Inductive Biases in Machines

Sreejan Kumar, Carlos G. Correa, Ishita Dasgupta +7

Strong inductive biases give humans the ability to quickly learn to perform a variety of tasks. Although meta-learning is a method to endow neural networks with useful inductive bi…

cs.CL2022★ 1 cited

Mixed-effects transformers for hierarchical adaptation

Julia White, Noah Goodman, Robert Hawkins

Language use differs dramatically from context to context. To some degree, modern language models like GPT-3 are able to account for such variance by conditioning on a string of pr…