3 papers
cs.AI2026
From Decorative to Load-Bearing: Task Difficulty Shapes the Causal Role of Chain-of-Thought
Renee Jia, Di Mu
Chain-of-thought (CoT) monitoring is only meaningful if written reasoning causally constrains the answer. We introduce continuation-based causal testing, an ablation-patch interven…
cs.AI2023
Story Shaping: Teaching Agents Human-like Behavior with Stories
Xiangyu Peng, Christopher Cui, Wei Zhou +2
Reward design for reinforcement learning agents can be difficult in situations where one not only wants the agent to achieve some effect in the world but where one also cares about…
cs.CL2021
Situated Dialogue Learning through Procedural Environment Generation
Prithviraj Ammanabrolu, Renee Jia, Mark O. Riedl
We teach goal-driven agents to interactively act and speak in situated environments by training on generated curriculums. Our agents operate in LIGHT (Urbanek et al. 2019) -- a lar…