4 papers
Implicit vs. Explicit Prompting Strategies for LVLMs in Referential Communication
Peter Zeng, Amie J. Paige, Weiling Li +3
Two recent studies \citep{jones2026llms, zeng2026lvlms} reach apparently contradictory conclusions about whether large vision-language models (LVLMs) can coordinate similarly to hu…
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…