collaborators

12 papers

q-bio.NC2026

People use fast and flat simulation to reason about new games

Katherine M. Collins, Cedegao E. Zhang, Lionel Wong +6

Games have long been a microcosm for studying planning and reasoning in both natural and artificial intelligence (AI), often focusing on expert-level or even super-human play. But…

cs.CL2026

Learning User Simulators with Turing Rewards

Yingshan Susan Wang, Cedegao E. Zhang, Linlu Qiu +5

Learning to simulate human users in interactive settings could advance the training of agent assistants, evaluation of personalization systems, research in the social sciences, and…

cs.AI2026

A Matter of Interest: Understanding Interestingness of Math Problems in Humans and Language Models

Shubhra Mishra, Yuka Machino, Gabriel Poesia +9

The evolution of mathematics is shaped importantly by interestingness: researchers choose which problems to pursue, and students choose which problems to engage with, based on expe…

cs.CL2026

Evaluating Language Models' Evaluations of Games

Katherine M. Collins, Cedegao E. Zhang, Graham Todd +9

Reasoning is not just about solving problems -- it is also about evaluating which problems are worth solving at all. Evaluations of artificial intelligence (AI) systems primarily f…

cs.AI2026

Cognitive Models and AI Algorithms Provide Templates for Designing Language Agents

Ryan Liu, Dilip Arumugam, Cedegao E. Zhang +3

While contemporary large language models (LLMs) are increasingly capable in isolation, there are still many difficult problems that lie beyond the abilities of a single LLM. For su…

cs.CL2025

Code-enabled language models can outperform reasoning models on diverse tasks

Cedegao E. Zhang, Cédric Colas, Gabriel Poesia +2

Reasoning models (RMs), language models (LMs) trained with reinforcement learning to produce long-form natural language reasoning, have been remarkably successful, but they still r…