Michael Henry Tessler

According to our database, Michael Henry Tessler authored at least 31 papers between 2014 and 2023.

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2023

A Systematic Comparison of Syllogistic Reasoning in Humans and Language Models.

Tiwalayo Eisape, Michael Henry Tessler, Ishita Dasgupta, Fei Sha, Sjoerd van Steenkiste, Tal Linzen

CoRR, 2023

2022

Logic, Probability, and Pragmatics in Syllogistic Reasoning.

Michael Henry Tessler, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Noah D. Goodman

Top. Cogn. Sci., 2022

Assessing Group-level Gender Bias in Professional Evaluations: The Case of Medical Student End-of-Shift Feedback.

Emmy Liu, Michael Henry Tessler, Nicole Dubosh, Katherine Mosher Hiller, Roger Levy

CoRR, 2022

Warm (for Winter): Inferring Comparison Classes in Communication.

Michael Henry Tessler, Noah D. Goodman

Cogn. Sci., 2022

Fine-tuning language models to find agreement among humans with diverse preferences.

Michiel A. Bakker, Martin J. Chadwick, Hannah Sheahan, Michael Henry Tessler, Lucy Campbell-Gillingham, Jan Balaguer, Nat McAleese, Amelia Glaese, John Aslanides, Matt M. Botvinick, Christopher Summerfield

Proceedings of the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 35: Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2022, 2022

Communicating Natural Programs to Humans and Machines.

Samuel Acquaviva, Yewen Pu, Marta Kryven, Theodoros Sechopoulos, Catherine Wong, Gabrielle E. Ecanow, Maxwell I. Nye, Michael Henry Tessler, Josh Tenenbaum

Proceedings of the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 35: Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2022, 2022

Can language models learn from explanations in context?

Andrew K. Lampinen, Ishita Dasgupta, Stephanie C. Y. Chan, Kory W. Mathewson, Michael Henry Tessler, Antonia Creswell, James L. McClelland, Jane Wang, Felix Hill

Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2022, 2022

2021

Growing knowledge culturally across generations to solve novel, complex tasks.

Michael Henry Tessler, Pedro A. Tsividis, Jason Madeano, Brin Harper, Joshua B. Tenenbaum

CoRR, 2021

A practical introduction to the Rational Speech Act modeling framework.

Gregory Scontras, Michael Henry Tessler, Michael Franke

CoRR, 2021

Improving Coherence and Consistency in Neural Sequence Models with Dual-System, Neuro-Symbolic Reasoning.

Maxwell I. Nye, Michael Henry Tessler, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Brenden M. Lake

Proceedings of the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 34: Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2021, 2021

2020

Informational goals, sentence structure, and comparison class inference.

Michael Henry Tessler, Polina Tsvilodub, Jesse Snedeker, Roger Levy

Proceedings of the 42th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2020

How many observations is one generic worth?

Michael Henry Tessler, Sophie Bridgers, Josh Tenenbaum

Proceedings of the 42th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2020

Leveraging Unstructured Statistical Knowledge in a Probabilistic Language of Thought.

Alexander K. Lew, Michael Henry Tessler, Vikash Mansinghka, Josh Tenenbaum

Proceedings of the 42th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2020

2019

Incremental understanding of conjunctive generic sentences.

Michael Henry Tessler, Karen Gu, Roger Levy

Proceedings of the 41th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2019

Extending Rationality.

Emmanuel M. Pothos, Jerome R. Busemeyer, Timothy J. Pleskac, James M. Yearsley, Josh Tenenbaum, Noah D. Goodman, Michael Henry Tessler, Tom Griffiths, Falk Lieder, Ralph Hertwig, Thorsten Pachur, Christina Leuker, Richard M. Shiffrin

Proceedings of the 41th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2019

The first crank of the cultural ratchet: Learning and transmitting concepts through language.

Sahil Chopra, Michael Henry Tessler, Noah D. Goodman

Proceedings of the 41th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2019

Integrating Common Ground and Informativeness in Pragmatic Word Learning.

Manuel Bohn, Michael Henry Tessler, Michael C. Frank

Proceedings of the 41th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2019

2018

Generalizations, from representation to transmission.

Michael Henry Tessler, Noah D. Goodman, David Danks, Emily Foster Hanson, Marjorie Rhodes, Greg Carlson

Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2018

Statistics as Pottery: Bayesian Data Analysis using Probabilistic Programs.

Michael Henry Tessler, Noah D. Goodman

Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2018

Not unreasonable: Carving vague dimensions with contraries and contradictions.

Michael Henry Tessler, Michael Franke

Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2018

webppl-oed: A practical optimal experiment design system.

Long Ouyang, Michael Henry Tessler, Daniel Ly, Noah D. Goodman

Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2018

Tiptoeing around it: Inference from absence in potentially offensive speech.

Monica A. Gates, Tess L. Veuthey, Michael Henry Tessler, Kevin A. Smith, Tobias Gerstenberg, Laurie Bayet, Josh Tenenbaum

Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2018

2017

"I won't lie, it wasn't amazing": Modeling polite indirect speech.

Erica J. Yoon, Michael Henry Tessler, Noah D. Goodman, Michael C. Frank

Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2017

Warm (for winter): Comparison class understanding in vague language.

Michael Henry Tessler, Michael Lopez-Brau, Noah D. Goodman

Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2017

2016

A pragmatic theory of generic language.

Michael Henry Tessler, Noah D. Goodman

CoRR, 2016

Practical optimal experiment design with probabilistic programs.

Long Ouyang, Michael Henry Tessler, Daniel Ly, Noah D. Goodman

CoRR, 2016

Talking with tact: Polite language as a balance between informativity and kindness.

Erica J. Yoon, Michael Henry Tessler, Noah D. Goodman, Michael C. Frank

Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2016

Communicating generalizations about events.

Michael Henry Tessler, Noah D. Goodman

Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2016

What does the crowd believe? A hierarchical approach to estimating subjective beliefs from empirical data.

Michael Franke, Fabian Dablander, Anthea Schöller, Erin Bennett, Judith Degen, Michael Henry Tessler, Justine T. Kao, Noah D. Goodman

Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2016

2015

Wonky worlds: Listeners revise world knowledge when utterances are odd.

Judith Degen, Michael Henry Tessler, Noah D. Goodman

Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2015

2014

Some arguments are probably valid: Syllogistic reasoning as communication.

Michael Henry Tessler, Noah D. Goodman

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