collaborators

6 papers

cs.LG2025

Trust Region Reward Optimization and Proximal Inverse Reward Optimization Algorithm

Yang Chen, Menglin Zou, Jiaqi Zhang +6

Inverse Reinforcement Learning (IRL) learns a reward function to explain expert demonstrations. Modern IRL methods often use the adversarial (minimax) formulation that alternates b…

cs.CL2025

Evaluating The Impact of Stimulus Quality in Investigations of LLM Language Performance

Timothy Pistotti, Jason Brown, Michael Witbrock

Recent studies employing Large Language Models (LLMs) to test the Argument from the Poverty of the Stimulus (APS) have yielded contrasting results across syntactic phenomena. This…

cs.CL2025

Exploring Gaps in the APS: Direct Minimal Pair Analysis in LLM Syntactic Assessments

Timothy Pistotti, Jason Brown, Michael Witbrock

Recent studies probing the Argument from the Poverty of the Stimulus (APS) have applied Large Language Models (LLMs) to test the learnability of complex syntax through surprisal-ba…

cs.CL2025

Psychology-Driven Enhancement of Humour Translation

Yuchen Su, Yonghua Zhu, Yang Chen +2

Humour translation plays a vital role as a bridge between different cultures, fostering understanding and communication. Although most existing Large Language Models (LLMs) are cap…

cs.CL2025

A Survey of Pun Generation: Datasets, Evaluations and Methodologies

Yuchen Su, Yonghua Zhu, Ruofan Wang +3

Pun generation seeks to creatively modify linguistic elements in text to produce humour or evoke double meanings. It also aims to preserve coherence and contextual appropriateness,…

cs.AI2025

Causal Cartographer: From Mapping to Reasoning Over Counterfactual Worlds

Gaël Gendron, Jože M. Rožanec, Michael Witbrock +1

Causal world models are systems that can answer counterfactual questions about an environment of interest, i.e. predict how it would have evolved if an arbitrary subset of events h…