3 papers
cs.CL2026
Scaling cross-situational word learning on children's naturalistic experiences
Michael C. Frank, Alvin W. M. Tan, Khai Loong Aw +9
How do children learn the meanings of the simple, concrete words that form a majority of their early vocabulary? Statistical information about many word meanings can be recovered f…
cs.CV2026
Characterizing the visual representation of objects from the child's view
Jane Yang, Tarun Sepuri, Alvin Wei Ming Tan +3
Children acquire object category representations from their everyday experiences in the first few years of life. What do the inputs to this learning process look like? We analyzed…
cs.CV2025
Assessing the alignment between infants' visual and linguistic experience using multimodal language models
Alvin Wei Ming Tan, Jane Yang, Tarun Sepuri +6
Figuring out which objects or concepts words refer to is a central language learning challenge for young children. Most models of this process posit that children learn early objec…