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Implicit vs. Explicit Prompting Strategies for LVLMs in Referential Communication
Peter Zeng, Amie J. Paige, Weiling Li +3
Two recent studies (Jones et al. (2026); Zeng et al. (2026)) reach apparently contradictory conclusions about whether LVLMs can coordinate on efficient referring expressions. We co…
LVLMs and Humans Ground Differently in Referential Communication
Peter Zeng, Weiling Li, Amie J. Paige +6
For generative AI agents to partner effectively with human users, the ability to accurately predict human intent is critical. But this ability to collaborate remains limited by a c…
LVLMs are Bad at Overhearing Human Referential Communication
Zhengxiang Wang, Weiling Li, Panagiotis Kaliosis +2
During spontaneous conversations, speakers collaborate on novel referring expressions, which they can then re-use in subsequent conversations. Understanding such referring expressi…
Training LLMs to Recognize Hedges in Spontaneous Narratives
Amie J. Paige, Adil Soubki, John Murzaku +2
Hedges allow speakers to mark utterances as provisional, whether to signal non-prototypicality or "fuzziness", to indicate a lack of commitment to an utterance, to attribute respon…