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20202025
most citedSkill Generalization with Verbs

1 citations · 1 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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5 papers

cs.CL2025

Visual Theory of Mind Enables the Invention of Proto-Writing

Benjamin A. Spiegel, Lucas Gelfond, George Konidaris

Symbolic writing systems are graphical semiotic codes that are ubiquitous in modern society but are otherwise absent in the animal kingdom. Anthropological evidence suggests that t…

cs.RO2024★ 1 cited

Skill Generalization with Verbs

Rachel Ma, Lyndon Lam, Benjamin A. Spiegel +6

It is imperative that robots can understand natural language commands issued by humans. Such commands typically contain verbs that signify what action should be performed on a give…

cs.AI2022

RLang: A Declarative Language for Describing Partial World Knowledge to Reinforcement Learning Agents

Rafael Rodriguez-Sanchez, Benjamin A. Spiegel, Jennifer Wang +3

We introduce RLang, a domain-specific language (DSL) for communicating domain knowledge to an RL agent. Unlike existing RL DSLs that ground to \textit{single} elements of a decisio…

cs.AI2021

Guided Policy Search for Parameterized Skills using Adverbs

Benjamin A. Spiegel, George Konidaris

We present a method for using adverb phrases to adjust skill parameters via learned adverb-skill groundings. These groundings allow an agent to use adverb feedback provided by a hu…

cs.CL2020

MK-SQuIT: Synthesizing Questions using Iterative Template-filling

Benjamin A. Spiegel, Vincent Cheong, James E. Kaplan +1

The aim of this work is to create a framework for synthetically generating question/query pairs with as little human input as possible. These datasets can be used to train machine…