Papers – Social Interaction Lab

Lexical search and social reasoning jointly explain communication in associative reference games.

A Kumar, RD Hawkins.

an earlier iteration of this work appeared in the Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society

A longitudinal analysis of individual differences in the development of communicative acts

C Bergey, M O’Keefe, RD Hawkins

Proceedings of the 46th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

Parents scaffold the formation of conversational pacts with their children.

AA Leung, D Yurovsky, RD Hawkins.

Child Development

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an earlier iteration of this paper appeared in the Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

Group coordination catalyzes individual and cultural intelligence.

CM Wu, R Dale, RD Hawkins.

Open Mind

Interaction structure constrains the emergence of conventions in group communication

V Boyce, RD Hawkins, ND Goodman, MC Frank.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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an earlier iteration of this paper appeared in the Proceedings of the 44th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

Simulating opinion dynamics with networks of LLM-based agents.

Y Chuang, A Goyal, N Harlalka, S Suresh, RD Hawkins, S Yang, D Shah, J Hu, TT Rogers

NAACL.

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A hierarchical Bayesian model of adaptive teaching

AM Chen, A Palacci, N Vélez, RD Hawkins*, SJ Gershman*.

Cognitive Science

The wisdom of partisan crowds: Comparing collective intelligence in humans and LLM-based agents

J Mankewitz, RD Hawkins, J Saffran

Proceedings of the 46th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

When and why does shared reality generalize?

W Mahaphanit, C Welker, H Schmidt, L Chang, RD Hawkins

Proceedings of the 46th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

Shared functional specialization in transformer-based language models and the human brain

TR Sumers*, S Kumar*, T Yamakoshi, KA Norman, U Hasson, TL Griffiths, RD Hawkins, SA Nastase

Nature Communications

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Distributed statistical inference in social interaction networks

Y Zubak, P Dronavalli, Y Chuang, RD Hawkins

Proceedings of the 46th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

Toddlers Actively Sample from Reliable and Unreliable Speakers

J Mankewitz, RD Hawkins, J Saffran

Proceedings of the 46th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

Causal interventions expose implicit situation models for commonsense language understanding.

T Yamakoshi, JL McClelland, AE Goldberg, RD Hawkins.

Findings of ACL.

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

RD Hawkins, A Berdahl, AS Pentland, ND Goodman, JB Tenenbaum, PM Krafft.

Nature Human Behavior.

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an earlier iteration of this paper won the prize for Computational Modeling in Applied Cognition when it appeared in the Proceedings of the 37th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

Overinformative question answering by humans and machines.

P Tsvilodub, RD Hawkins, ND Goodman, M Franke.

Proceedings of the 45th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

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Semantic uncertainty guides the extension of conventions to new referents.

R Eliav, A Ji, Y Artzi, RD Hawkins.

Proceedings of the 45th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

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Reconciling truthfulness and relevance as epistemic and decision-theoretic utility.

TR Sumers, MK Ho, TL Griffiths, RD Hawkins.

Psychological Review.

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an earlier iteration of this paper appeared in the Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

Visual resemblance and interaction history jointly constrain pictorial meaning.

RD Hawkins, M Sano, ND Goodman, J Fan.

Nature Communications.

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an earlier iteration of this paper appeared in the Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

The emergence of specialized roles within groups.

RL Goldstone, E Andrade-Lotero, RD Hawkins, ME Roberts.

Topics in Cognitive Science.

Show or tell? Teaching with language outperforms demonstration but only when context is shared.

T Sumers, M Ho, RD Hawkins, TL Griffiths.

Cognition.

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Abstract visual reasoning with tangram shapes.

A Ji, N Kojima, N Rush, A Suhr, WK Vong, RD Hawkins, Y Artzi

EMNLP.

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winner of best long paper award

Probing BERT’s priors with serial reproduction chains.

T Yamakoshi, TL Griffiths, RD Hawkins.

Findings of ACL.

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Identifying concept libraries from language about object structure.

C Wong, W McCarthy, G Grand, Y Friedman, J Tenenbaum, J Andreas, RD Hawkins, JE Fan.

Proceedings of the 44th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

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

S Kumar, C Correa, I Dasgupta, R Marjieh, M Hu, RD Hawkins, J Cohen, N Daw, KR Narasimhan, TL Griffiths

NeurIPS.

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winner of outstanding paper award

J Antony, A Romero, A Vierra, R Luenser, RD Hawkins, K Bennion.

eLife.

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

S Murthy, TL Griffiths, RD Hawkins.

Cognition.

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A pragmatic account of the weak evidence effect.

SA Barnett, TL Griffiths, RD Hawkins.

Open Mind.

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

TR Sumers, RD Hawkins, MK Ho, TL Griffiths, D Hadfield-Menell.

NeurIPS.

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winner of best paper prize at 2022 NeurIPS Workshop on Language and Reinforcement Learning (LaReL)

Mixed-effects transformers for hierarchical adaptation.

J White, ND Goodman, RD Hawkins.

EMNLP.

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

RD Hawkins, M Franke, MC Frank, AE Goldberg, K Smith, TL Griffiths, ND Goodman.

Psychological Review.

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This paper is partially based on earlier work that appeared in the Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society and the Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, where it received the prize for computational modeling in language.

Generating informative, open-domain clarification questions without question examples.

J White, G Poesia, RD Hawkins, D Sadigh, N Goodman.

EMNLP.

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The division of labor in communication: Speakers help listeners account for asymmetries in visual perspective.

RD Hawkins, H Gweon, ND Goodman.

Cognitive Science.

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This paper is partially based on earlier work that appeared in the Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

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

RD Hawkins, I Liu, AE Goldberg, TL Griffiths.

Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

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Learning to communicate about shared procedural abstractions.

W McCarthy*, RD Hawkins*, C Holdaway, H Wang, J Fan.

Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

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Learning rewards from linguistic feedback.

T Sumers, M Ho, RD Hawkins, K Narasimhan, TL Griffiths.

AAAI.

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

J Degen, RD Hawkins, C Graf, E Kreiss, ND Goodman.

Psychological Review.

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Continual adaptation for efficient machine communication

RD Hawkins, M Kwon, D Sadigh, ND Goodman

CoNLL.

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winner of best paper prize at 2019 ICML Workshop on Adaptive & Multitask Learning: Algorithms & Systems (AMTL)

Investigating representations of verb bias in neural language models.

RD Hawkins*, T Yamakoshi*, TL Griffiths, AE Goldberg.

EMNLP.

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Characterizing the dynamics of learning in repeated reference games.

RD Hawkins, MC Frank, ND Goodman.

Cognitive Science.

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Pragmatic inference and visual abstraction enable contextual flexibility during visual communication

JE Fan, RD Hawkins, M Wu, ND Goodman.

Computational Brain & Behavior.

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Coordinating on meaning in communication.

RD Hawkins.

PhD Dissertation

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Communicating semantic part information in drawings.

K Mukherjee, RD Hawkins, JE Fan

Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.'

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ShapeGlot: Learning language for shape differentiation.

P Achlioptas, JE Fan, RD Hawkins, ND Goodman, L Guibas.

ICCV.

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The emergence of social norms and conventions

RD Hawkins, ND Goodman, RL Goldstone.

Trends in Cognitive Sciences.

Emerging abstractions: Lexical conventions are shaped by communicative context.

RD Hawkins, M Franke, K Smith, ND Goodman.

Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

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Improving the replicability of psychological science through pedagogy.

RD Hawkins*, EN Smith*, C Au, JM Arias, R Catapano, E Hermann, M Keil, A Lampinen, S Raposo, J Reynolds, S Salehi, J Salloum, J Tan, MC Frank.

Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science.

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Path ensembles and a tradeoff between communication efficiency and resilience in the human connectome.

A Avena-Koenigsberger, B Misic, RD Hawkins, A Griffa, P Hagmann, J Goñi, O Sporns.

Brain Structure and Function.

Colors in context: A pragmatic neural model for grounded language understanding.

W Monroe, RD Hawkins, ND Goodman, C Potts.

Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics.

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Can two dots form a Gestalt? Measuring emergent features with the capacity coefficient.

RD Hawkins, JW Houpt, A Eidels, JT Townsend.

Vision Research.

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A tutorial on general recognition theory.

NH Silbert, RD Hawkins.

Journal of Mathematical Psychology.

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The formation of social conventions in real-time environments.

RD Hawkins, RL Goldstone.

PLoS ONE.

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Features of response times: Identification of cognitive mechanisms through mathematical modeling.

D Algom, A Eidels, RD Hawkins, B Jefferson, JT Townsend.

The Oxford Handbook of Computational and Mathematical Psychology

Why do you ask? Good questions provoke informative answers.

RD Hawkins, A Stuhlmüller, J Degen, ND Goodman.

Proceedings of the 37th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society

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Coarse-to-fine sequential Monte Carlo for probabilistic programs.

A Stuhlmüller, RD Hawkins, N Siddharth, ND Goodman.

ArXiv Technical Report

Conducting real-time multiplayer experiments on the web.

RD Hawkins.

Behavior Research Methods.

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Bootstrap methods for the empirical study of decision-making and information flows in social systems.

S DeDeo, RD Hawkins, S Klingenstein, T Hitchcock.

Entropy

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