3 papers
cs.CL2026
Human Adults and LLMs as Scientists: Who Benefits from Active Exploration?
Mandana Samiei, Eunice Yiu, Anthony GX-Chen +5
A long-standing finding in the causal learning literature is that adults struggle to identify conjunctive causal rules, where an effect requires the simultaneous presence of multip…
cs.AI2026
Empowerment Gain and Causal Model Construction: Children and adults are sensitive to controllability and variability in their causal interventions
Eunice Yiu, Kelsey Allen, Shiry Ginosar +1
Learning about the causal structure of the world is a fundamental problem for human cognition. Causal models and especially causal learning have proved to be difficult for large pr…
cs.CV2025
KiVA: Kid-inspired Visual Analogies for Testing Large Multimodal Models
Eunice Yiu, Maan Qraitem, Anisa Noor Majhi +5
This paper investigates visual analogical reasoning in large multimodal models (LMMs) compared to human adults and children. A "visual analogy" is an abstract rule inferred from on…