4 papers
Do Vision-Language Models Have Internal World Models? Towards an Atomic Evaluation
Qiyue Gao, Xinyu Pi, Kevin Liu +21
Internal world models (WMs) enable agents to understand the world's state and predict transitions, serving as the basis for advanced deliberative reasoning. Recent large Vision-Lan…
Now More Than Ever, Foundational AI Research and Infrastructure Depends on the Federal Government
Michela Taufer, Rada Mihalcea, Matthew Turk +13
Leadership in the field of AI is vital for our nation's economy and security. Maintaining this leadership requires investments by the federal government. The federal investment in…
ION-C: Integration of Overlapping Networks via Constraints
Praveen Nair, Payal Bhandari, Mohammadsajad Abavisani +2
In many causal learning problems, variables of interest are often not all measured over the same observations, but are instead distributed across multiple datasets with overlapping…
Addressing the Unforeseen Harms of Technology CCC Whitepaper
Nadya Bliss, Kevin Butler, David Danks +2
Recent years have seen increased awareness of the potential significant impacts of computing technologies, both positive and negative. This whitepaper explores how to address possi…