2 papers
cs.CL2026
Aligned but Not Partner-Specific: How Multimodal LLM Agents Succeed in Reference Games Without Forming Conceptual Pacts
Po-Ya Angela Wang, Chinmaya Mishra, Aslı Özyürek +2
Repeated reference games test whether interlocutors replace their initially long descriptions with shorter, partner-specific expressions grounded in shared interaction history; tha…
cs.CL2025
Using Perspectival Words Is Harder Than Vocabulary Words for Humans and Even More So for Multimodal Language Models
Dota Tianai Dong, Yifan Luo, Po-Ya Angela Wang +2
Multimodal language models (MLMs) increasingly demonstrate human-like communication, yet their use of everyday perspectival words remains poorly understood. To address this gap, we…