3 papers
cs.SI2025
Lossy communication constrains iterated learning
Ben Prystawski, Dilip Arumugam, Noah D. Goodman
Humans' distinctive role in the world can largely be attributed to our capacity for iterated learning, a process by which knowledge is expanded and refined over generations. A rang…
cs.CL2025
Context informs pragmatic interpretation in vision-language models
Alvin Wei Ming Tan, Ben Prystawski, Veronica Boyce +1
Iterated reference games - in which players repeatedly pick out novel referents using language - present a test case for agents' ability to perform context-sensitive pragmatic reas…
cs.CL2025
Scaling up the think-aloud method
Daniel Wurgaft, Ben Prystawski, Kanishk Gandhi +3
The think-aloud method, where participants voice their thoughts as they solve a task, is a valuable source of rich data about human reasoning processes. Yet, it has declined in pop…