Robert D. Hawkins

CoRR, May, 2026

Act or Clarify? Modeling Sensitivity to Uncertainty and Cost in Communication.

[BibT_eX]

[DOI]

CoRR, February, 2026

When More Words Say Less: Decoupling Length and Specificity in Image Description Evaluation.

[BibT_eX]

[DOI]

Rhea Kapur

Elisa Kreiss

CoRR, January, 2026

Accommodation and Epistemic Vigilance: A Pragmatic Account of Why LLMs Fail to Challenge Harmful Beliefs.

[BibT_eX]

[DOI]

Myra Cheng

Dan Jurafsky

CoRR, January, 2026

Gesturing Toward Abstraction: Multimodal Convention Formation in Collaborative Physical Tasks.

[BibT_eX]

[DOI]

Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2026

2025

Using LLMs to advance the cognitive science of collectives.

[BibT_eX]

[DOI]

Nat. Comput. Sci., September, 2025

Ad hoc conventions generalize to new referents.

[BibT_eX]

[DOI]

Anya Ji

Claire Augusta Bergey

Ron Eliav

Yoav Artzi

CoRR, September, 2025

Integrating Neural and Symbolic Components in a Model of Pragmatic Question-Answering.

[BibT_eX]

[DOI]

Polina Tsvilodub

Michael Franke

CoRR, June, 2025

Core Knowledge Deficits in Multi-Modal Language Models.

[BibT_eX]

[DOI]

Proceedings of the Forty-second International Conference on Machine Learning, 2025

Comparing human and LLM politeness strategies in free production.

[BibT_eX]

[DOI]

Haoran Zhao

Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2025

Evaluating distillation methods for data-efficient syntax learning.

[BibT_eX]

[DOI]

Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2025, 2025

Overcoming sparse and uneven evidence with natural language communication.

[BibT_eX]

[DOI]

Yuliya Zubak

Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2025

Polite Speech Generation in Humans and Language Models.

[BibT_eX]

[DOI]

Haoran Zhao

Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2025

Dynamics of topic exploration in conversation.

[BibT_eX]

[DOI]

Helen Schmidt

Claire Augusta Bergey

Changyi Zhou

Chelsea Helion

Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2025

Function shapes form: Compositionality emerges from communicative needs, not environmental structure alone.

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[DOI]

Jessica Mankewitz

Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2025

Learning to communicate a shared wavelength.

[BibT_eX]

[DOI]

Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2025

Minding the Politeness Gap in Cross-cultural Communication.

[BibT_eX]

[DOI]

Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2025

Two paths to variation in semantic judgments: How ambiguity and conceptual diversity drive individual differences in meaning.

[BibT_eX]

[DOI]

Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2025

Amortizing Structure Discovery with Generative Flow Networks.

[BibT_eX]

[DOI]

Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2025

A Computational Account of Epistemic Vigilance: Learning from Selective Truths through Bayesian Reasoning.

[BibT_eX]

[DOI]

Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2025

How do we get to know someone? Diagnostic questions for inferring personal traits.

[BibT_eX]

[DOI]

Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2025

2024

A Hierarchical Bayesian Model of Adaptive Teaching.

[BibT_eX]

[DOI]

Cogn. Sci., July, 2024

The Emergence of Specialized Roles Within Groups.

[BibT_eX]

[DOI]

Robert L. Goldstone

Edgar J. Andrade-Lotero

Michael E. Roberts

Top. Cogn. Sci., April, 2024

Toddlers Actively Sample from Reliable and Unreliable Speakers.

[BibT_eX]

[DOI]

Jessica Mankewitz

Jenny R. Saffran

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

When and why does shared reality generalize?

[BibT_eX]

[DOI]

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

A longitudinal analysis of children's communicative acts.

[BibT_eX]

[DOI]

Claire Augusta Bergey

Misha O'Keeffe

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

2023

Learning a Hierarchical Planner from Humans in Multiple Generations.

[BibT_eX]

[DOI]

Leonardo Hernandez Cano

CoRR, 2023

Same situation, different goals: Exploring how people construct stories from streams of experience.

[BibT_eX]

[DOI]

Naomi Vaida

Susan T. Fiske

Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2023

Overinformative Question Answering by Humans and Machines.

[BibT_eX]

[DOI]

Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2023

Semantic uncertainty guides the extension of conventions to new referents.

[BibT_eX]

[DOI]

Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2023

Advancing Cognitive Science and AI with Cognitive-AI Benchmarking.

[BibT_eX]

[DOI]

Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2023

Causal interventions expose implicit situation models for commonsense language understanding.

[BibT_eX]

[DOI]

Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023, 2023

2022

Flexible social inference facilitates targeted social learning when rewards are not observable.

[BibT_eX]

[DOI]

Andrew M. Berdahl

Alex 'Sandy' Pentland

Joshua B. Tenenbaum

P. M. Krafft

CoRR, 2022

How to talk so your robot will learn: Instructions, descriptions, and pragmatics.

[BibT_eX]

[DOI]

Dylan Hadfield-Menell

CoRR, 2022

Linguistic communication as (inverse) reward design.

[BibT_eX]

[DOI]

Dylan Hadfield-Menell

CoRR, 2022

How to talk so AI will learn: Instructions, descriptions, and autonomy.

[BibT_eX]

[DOI]

Dylan Hadfield-Menell

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

Using natural language and program abstractions to instill human inductive biases in machines.

[BibT_eX]

[DOI]

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

Abstract Visual Reasoning with Tangram Shapes.

[BibT_eX]

[DOI]

Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2022

Mixed-effects transformers for hierarchical adaptation.

[BibT_eX]

[DOI]

Julia White

Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2022

Identifying concept libraries from language about object structure.

[BibT_eX]

[DOI]

Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2022

Two's company but six is a crowd: emergence of conventions in multiparty communication games.

[BibT_eX]

[DOI]

Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2022

Probing BERT's priors with serial reproduction chains.

[BibT_eX]

[DOI]

Takateru Yamakoshi

Thomas L. Griffiths

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

2021

A pragmatic account of the weak evidence effect.

[BibT_eX]

[DOI]

Samuel A. Barnett

Thomas L. Griffiths

CoRR, 2021

Visual resemblance and communicative context constrain the emergence of graphical conventions.

[BibT_eX]

[DOI]

CoRR, 2021

Shades of confusion: Lexical uncertainty modulates ad hoc coordination in an interactive communication task.

[BibT_eX]

[DOI]

Sonia K. Murthy

Thomas L. Griffiths

CoRR, 2021

From partners to populations: A hierarchical Bayesian account of coordination and convention.

[BibT_eX]

[DOI]

CoRR, 2021

The Division of Labor in Communication: Speakers Help Listeners Account for Asymmetries in Visual Perspective.

[BibT_eX]

[DOI]

Hyowon Gweon

Cogn. Sci., 2021

Open-domain clarification question generation without question examples.

[BibT_eX]

[DOI]

Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2021

Extending rational models of communication from beliefs to actions.

[BibT_eX]

[DOI]

Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2021

Learning to communicate about shared procedural abstractions.

[BibT_eX]

[DOI]

Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2021

Contextual Flexibility Guides Communication in a Cooperative Language Game.

[BibT_eX]

[DOI]

Abhilasha Ashok Kumar

Ketika Garg

Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2021

Respect the code: Speakers expect novel conventions to generalize within but not across social group boundaries.

[BibT_eX]

[DOI]

Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2021

Learning Rewards From Linguistic Feedback.

[BibT_eX]

[DOI]

Proceedings of the Thirty-Fifth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2021

2020

Characterizing the Dynamics of Learning in Repeated Reference Games.

[BibT_eX]

[DOI]

Michael C. Frank

Cogn. Sci., 2020

Investigating representations of verb bias in neural language models.

[BibT_eX]

[DOI]

Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2020

Continual Adaptation for Efficient Machine Communication.

[BibT_eX]

[DOI]

Proceedings of the 24th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning, 2020

Parents scaffold the formation of conversational pacts with their children.

[BibT_eX]

[DOI]

Ashley C. Leung

Dan Yurovsky

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

Generalizing meanings from partners to populations: Hierarchical inference supports convention formation on networks.

[BibT_eX]

[DOI]

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

2019

When redundancy is rational: A Bayesian approach to 'overinformative' referring expressions.

[BibT_eX]

[DOI]

CoRR, 2019

Pragmatic inference and visual abstraction enable contextual flexibility during visual communication.

[BibT_eX]

[DOI]

CoRR, 2019

Shapeglot: Learning Language for Shape Differentiation.

[BibT_eX]

[DOI]

Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision, 2019

Communicating semantic part information in drawings.

[BibT_eX]

[DOI]

Kushin Mukherjee

Judith W. Fan

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

Using replication studies to teach research methods in cognitive science.

[BibT_eX]

[DOI]

Josh de Leeuw

Janet K. Andrews

Kenneth R. Livingston

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

Disentangling contributions of visual information and interaction history in the formation of graphical conventions.

[BibT_eX]

[DOI]

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

2018

Speakers account for asymmetries in visual perspective so listeners don't have to.

[BibT_eX]

[DOI]

Hyowon Gweon

CoRR, 2018

Emerging abstractions: Lexical conventions are shaped by communicative context.

[BibT_eX]

[DOI]

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

2017

Colors in Context: A Pragmatic Neural Model for Grounded Language Understanding.

[BibT_eX]

[DOI]

Trans. Assoc. Comput. Linguistics, 2017

Mentioning atypical properties of objects is communicatively efficient.

[BibT_eX]

[DOI]

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

Convention-formation in iterated reference games.

[BibT_eX]

[DOI]

Mike Frank

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

2016

The Emergence of Conventions.

[BibT_eX]

[DOI]

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

Conversational expectations account for apparent limits on theory of mind use.

[BibT_eX]

[DOI]

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

Animal, dog, or dalmatian? Level of abstraction in nominal referring expressions.

[BibT_eX]

[DOI]

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

2015

Coarse-to-Fine Sequential Monte Carlo for Probabilistic Programs.

[BibT_eX]

[DOI]

CoRR, 2015

Emergent Collective Sensing in Human Groups.

[BibT_eX]

[DOI]

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

Why do you ask? Good questions provoke informative answers.

[BibT_eX]

[DOI]

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

2013

Real-Time Strategy: Multi-Level Dynamics in an Uncertain Environment.

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[DOI]