Brian R. Christian

According to our database, Brian R. Christian authored at least 9 papers between 2008 and 2026.

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2026

Post-training makes large language models less human-like.

Marcel Binz, Elif Akata, Abdullah Almaatouq, Mohammed Alsobay, Oleksii Ariasov, Franziska Brändle, David Broska, Jason W. Burton, Nuno Busch, Frederick Callaway, Vanessa Cheung, Brian R. Christian, Julian Coda-Forno, Can Demircan, Vittoria Dentella, Maria K. Eckstein, Noémi Élteto, Michael Franke, Thomas L. Griffiths, Fritz Günther, Susanne Haridi, Sebastian Hellmann, Stefan Herytash, Linus Hof, Eleanor Holton, Isabelle Hoxha, Zak Hussain, Akshay K. Jagadish, Elif Kara, Valentin Kriegmair, Evelina Leivada, Ji-An Li, Tobias Ludwig, Maximilian Maier, Marcelo G. Mattar, Marvin Mathony, Alireza Modirshanechi, Robin Na, Mariia Nadverniuk, Antonios Nasioulas, Surabhi S. Nath, Helen Niemeyer, Kate Nussenbaum, Sebastian Olschewski, Thorsten Pachur, Stefano Palminteri, Aliona Petrenco, Camille V. Phaneuf-Hadd, Angelo Pirrone, Manuel Rausch, Laura Raveling, Shashank Reddy, Milena Rmus, Evan M. Russek, Tankred Saanum, Kai Sandbrink, Louis Schiekiera, Johannes A. Schubert, Luca M. Schulze Buschoff, Nishad Singhi, Leah H. Somerville, Mikhail S. Spektor, Xin Sui, Christopher Summerfield, Mirko Thalmann, Anna Isabel Thoma, Taisiia Tikhomirova, Vuong Truong, Polina Tsvilodub, Konstantinos Voudouris, Kristin Witte, Shuchen Wu, Dirk U. Wulff, Huadong Xiong, Songlin Xu, Lance Ying, Xinyu Zhang, Jian-Qiao Zhu, Eric Schulz

CoRR, May, 2026

AI Assistance Reduces Persistence and Hurts Independent Performance.

Grace Liu, Brian R. Christian, Tsvetomira Dumbalska, Michiel A. Bakker, Rachit Dubey

CoRR, April, 2026

Reward Models Inherit Value Biases from Pretraining.

Brian R. Christian, Jessica A. F. Thompson, Elle Michelle Yang, Vincent Adam, Hannah Rose Kirk, Christopher Summerfield, Tsvetomira Dumbalska

CoRR, January, 2026

2025

Reward Model Interpretability via Optimal and Pessimal Tokens.

Brian R. Christian, Hannah Rose Kirk, Jessica A. F. Thompson, Christopher Summerfield, Tsvetomira Dumbalska

Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency, 2025

2024

Personhood credentials: Artificial intelligence and the value of privacy-preserving tools to distinguish who is real online.

Steven Adler, Zoë Hitzig, Shrey Jain, Catherine Brewer, Wayne Chang, Renee DiResta, Eddy Lazzarin, Sean McGregor, Wendy Seltzer, Divya Siddarth, Nouran Soliman, Tobin South, Connor Spelliscy, Manu Sporny, Varya Srivastava, John Bailey, Brian R. Christian, Andrew Critch, Ronnie Falcon, Heather Flanagan, Kim Hamilton Duffy, Eric Ho, Claire R. Leibowicz, Srikanth Nadhamuni, Alan Z. Rozenshtein, David Schnurr, Evan Shapiro, Lacey Strahm, Andrew Trask, Zoe Weinberg, Cedric Whitney, Tom Zick

CoRR, 2024

Can reinforcement learning model learning across development? Online lifelong learning through adaptive intrinsic motivation.

Kai Sandbrink, Brian R. Christian, Linas Nasvytis, Christian Schroeder de Witt, Patrick Butlin

Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2024

2023

How do Humans Overcome Individual Computational Limitations by Working Together?

Natalia Vélez, Brian R. Christian, Mathew D. Hardy, Bill D. Thompson, Thomas L. Griffiths

Cogn. Sci., January, 2023

2014

Caching Algorithms and Rational Models of Memory.

Avi Press, Michael Pacer, Thomas L. Griffiths, Brian R. Christian

Proceedings of the 36th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2014

2008

Using Category Structures to Test Iterated Learning as a Method for Identifying Inductive Biases.

Thomas L. Griffiths, Brian R. Christian, Michael L. Kalish

Cogn. Sci., 2008