Robert D. Hawkins

58 papers A* 6B 23Journal 26Unranked 3

Year	Rank	Type	Title / Venue / Authors
2026	J	`jnl`	Accommodation and Epistemic Vigilance: A Pragmatic Account of Why LLMs Fail to Challenge Harmful Beliefs. CoRR Myra Cheng, Robert D. Hawkins, Dan Jurafsky
2026	J	`jnl`	Act or Clarify? Modeling Sensitivity to Uncertainty and Cost in Communication. CoRR Polina Tsvilodub, Karl Mulligan, Todd Snider, Robert D. Hawkins, Michael Franke
2026	A*	`conf`	Gesturing Toward Abstraction: Multimodal Convention Formation in Collaborative Physical Tasks. CHI Kiyosu Maeda, William P. McCarthy, Ching-Yi Tsai, Jeffrey Mu, Haoliang Wang, Robert D. Hawkins, Judith E. Fan, Parastoo Abtahi
2026	J	`jnl`	Gesturing Toward Abstraction: Multimodal Convention Formation in Collaborative Physical Tasks. CoRR Kiyosu Maeda, William P. McCarthy, Ching-Yi Tsai, Jeffrey Mu, Haoliang Wang, Robert D. Hawkins, Judith E. Fan, Parastoo Abtahi
2026	J	`jnl`	When More Words Say Less: Decoupling Length and Specificity in Image Description Evaluation. CoRR Rhea Kapur, Robert D. Hawkins, Elisa Kreiss
2025	B	`conf`	A Computational Account of Epistemic Vigilance: Learning from Selective Truths through Bayesian Reasoning. CogSci Ke Fang, Robert D. Hawkins, Charley M. Wu, Michael Franke
2025	J	`jnl`	Ad hoc conventions generalize to new referents. CoRR Anya Ji, Claire Augusta Bergey, Ron Eliav, Yoav Artzi, Robert D. Hawkins
2025	B	`conf`	Amortizing Structure Discovery with Generative Flow Networks. CogSci Alex Guerra, Aditya Palaparthi, Sarah-Jane Leslie, Robert D. Hawkins
2025	A*	`conf`	Comparing human and LLM politeness strategies in free production. EMNLP Haoran Zhao, Robert D. Hawkins
2025	J	`jnl`	Comparing human and LLM politeness strategies in free production. CoRR Haoran Zhao, Robert D. Hawkins
2025	A*	`conf`	Core Knowledge Deficits in Multi-Modal Language Models. ICML Yijiang Li, Qingying Gao, Tianwei Zhao, Bingyang Wang, Haoran Sun, Haiyun Lyu, Robert D. Hawkins, Nuno Vasconcelos, Tal Golan, Dezhi Luo, Hokin Deng
2025	B	`conf`	Dynamics of topic exploration in conversation. CogSci Helen Schmidt, Claire Augusta Bergey, Changyi Zhou, Chelsea Helion, Robert D. Hawkins
2025	—	`conf`	Evaluating distillation methods for data-efficient syntax learning. EMNLP (Findings) Takateru Yamakoshi, Thomas L. Griffiths, R. Thomas McCoy, Robert D. Hawkins
2025	B	`conf`	Function shapes form: Compositionality emerges from communicative needs, not environmental structure alone. CogSci Jessica Mankewitz, Robert D. Hawkins
2025	B	`conf`	How do we get to know someone? Diagnostic questions for inferring personal traits. CogSci Erik Brockbank, Tobias Gerstenberg, Judith E. Fan, Robert D. Hawkins
2025	J	`jnl`	Integrating Neural and Symbolic Components in a Model of Pragmatic Question-Answering. CoRR Polina Tsvilodub, Robert D. Hawkins, Michael Franke
2025	B	`conf`	Learning to communicate a shared wavelength. CogSci Wasita Mahaphanit, Benjamin Keller, Robert D. Hawkins, Jonathan Phillips, Luke Chang
2025	B	`conf`	Minding the Politeness Gap in Cross-cultural Communication. CogSci Yuka Machino, Max H. Siegel, Matthias Hofer, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Robert D. Hawkins
2025	J	`jnl`	Minding the Politeness Gap in Cross-cultural Communication. CoRR Yuka Machino, Matthias Hofer, Max H. Siegel, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Robert D. Hawkins
2025	B	`conf`	Overcoming sparse and uneven evidence with natural language communication. CogSci Yuliya Zubak, Robert D. Hawkins
2025	B	`conf`	Polite Speech Generation in Humans and Language Models. CogSci Haoran Zhao, Robert D. Hawkins
2025	B	`conf`	Two paths to variation in semantic judgments: How ambiguity and conceptual diversity drive individual differences in meaning. CogSci Di Liu, Raja Marjieh, Nori Jacoby, Robert D. Hawkins
2025	J	`jnl`	Using LLMs to Advance the Cognitive Science of Collectives. CoRR Ilia Sucholutsky, Katherine M. Collins, Nori Jacoby, Bill D. Thompson, Robert D. Hawkins
2025	J	`jnl`	Using LLMs to advance the cognitive science of collectives. Nat. Comput. Sci. Ilia Sucholutsky, Katherine M. Collins, Nori Jacoby, Bill D. Thompson, Robert D. Hawkins
2024	J	`jnl`	A Hierarchical Bayesian Model of Adaptive Teaching. Cogn. Sci. Alicia M. Chen, Andrew Palacci, Natalia Vélez, Robert D. Hawkins, Samuel J. Gershman
2024	B	`conf`	A longitudinal analysis of children's communicative acts. CogSci Claire Augusta Bergey, Misha O'Keeffe, Robert D. Hawkins
2024	J	`jnl`	The Emergence of Specialized Roles Within Groups. Top. Cogn. Sci. Robert L. Goldstone, Edgar J. Andrade-Lotero, Robert D. Hawkins, Michael E. Roberts
2024	B	`conf`	Toddlers Actively Sample from Reliable and Unreliable Speakers. CogSci Jessica Mankewitz, Robert D. Hawkins, Jenny R. Saffran
2024	B	`conf`	When and why does shared reality generalize? CogSci Wasita Mahaphanit, Christopher Welker, Helen Schmidt, Luke Chang, Robert D. Hawkins
2023	B	`conf`	Advancing Cognitive Science and AI with Cognitive-AI Benchmarking. CogSci Felix Jedidja Binder, Logan Matthew Cross, Yoni Friedman, Robert D. Hawkins, Daniel L. K. Yamins, Judith E. Fan
2023	—	`conf`	Causal interventions expose implicit situation models for commonsense language understanding. ACL (Findings) Takateru Yamakoshi, James L. McClelland, Adele Goldberg, Robert D. Hawkins
2023	J	`jnl`	Causal interventions expose implicit situation models for commonsense language understanding. CoRR Takateru Yamakoshi, James L. McClelland, Adele E. Goldberg, Robert D. Hawkins
2023	J	`jnl`	Learning a Hierarchical Planner from Humans in Multiple Generations. CoRR Leonardo Hernandez Cano, Yewen Pu, Robert D. Hawkins, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Armando Solar-Lezama
2023	B	`conf`	Overinformative Question Answering by Humans and Machines. CogSci Polina Tsvilodub, Michael Franke, Robert D. Hawkins, Noah D. Goodman
2023	J	`jnl`	Overinformative Question Answering by Humans and Machines. CoRR Polina Tsvilodub, Michael Franke, Robert D. Hawkins, Noah D. Goodman
2023	B	`conf`	Same situation, different goals: Exploring how people construct stories from streams of experience. CogSci Naomi Vaida, Susan T. Fiske, Robert D. Hawkins
2023	B	`conf`	Semantic uncertainty guides the extension of conventions to new referents. CogSci Ron Eliav, Anya Ji, Yoav Artzi, Robert D. Hawkins
2023	J	`jnl`	Semantic uncertainty guides the extension of conventions to new referents. CoRR Ron Eliav, Anya Ji, Yoav Artzi, Robert D. Hawkins
2022	A*	`conf`	Abstract Visual Reasoning with Tangram Shapes. EMNLP Anya Ji, Noriyuki Kojima, Noah Rush, Alane Suhr, Wai Keen Vong, Robert D. Hawkins, Yoav Artzi
2022	J	`jnl`	Abstract Visual Reasoning with Tangram Shapes. CoRR Anya Ji, Noriyuki Kojima, Noah Rush, Alane Suhr, Wai Keen Vong, Robert D. Hawkins, Yoav Artzi
2022	J	`jnl`	Flexible social inference facilitates targeted social learning when rewards are not observable. CoRR Robert D. Hawkins, Andrew M. Berdahl, Alex 'Sandy' Pentland, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Noah D. Goodman, P. M. Krafft
2022	A*	`conf`	How to talk so AI will learn: Instructions, descriptions, and autonomy. NeurIPS Theodore R. Sumers, Robert D. Hawkins, Mark K. Ho, Tom Griffiths, Dylan Hadfield-Menell
2022	J	`jnl`	How to talk so your robot will learn: Instructions, descriptions, and pragmatics. CoRR Theodore R. Sumers, Robert D. Hawkins, Mark K. Ho, Thomas L. Griffiths, Dylan Hadfield-Menell
2022	B	`conf`	Identifying concept libraries from language about object structure. CogSci Catherine Wong, William P. McCarthy, Gabriel Grand, Yoni Friedman, Josh Tenenbaum, Jacob Andreas, Robert D. Hawkins, Judith E. Fan
2022	J	`jnl`	Identifying concept libraries from language about object structure. CoRR Catherine Wong, William P. McCarthy, Gabriel Grand, Yoni Friedman, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Jacob Andreas, Robert D. Hawkins, Judith E. Fan
2022	J	`jnl`	Linguistic communication as (inverse) reward design. CoRR Theodore R. Sumers, Robert D. Hawkins, Mark K. Ho, Thomas L. Griffiths, Dylan Hadfield-Menell
2022	—	`conf`	Probing BERT's priors with serial reproduction chains. ACL (Findings) Takateru Yamakoshi, Thomas L. Griffiths, Robert D. Hawkins
2022	J	`jnl`	Probing BERT's priors with serial reproduction chains. CoRR Takateru Yamakoshi, Robert D. Hawkins, Thomas L. Griffiths
2022	B	`conf`	Two's company but six is a crowd: emergence of conventions in multiparty communication games. CogSci Veronica Boyce, Robert D. Hawkins, Noah D. Goodman, Michael C. Frank
2022	J	`jnl`	Using Natural Language and Program Abstractions to Instill Human Inductive Biases in Machines. CoRR Sreejan Kumar, Carlos G. Correa, Ishita Dasgupta, Raja Marjieh, Michael Y. Hu, Robert D. Hawkins, Nathaniel D. Daw, Jonathan D. Cohen, Karthik Narasimhan, Thomas L. Griffiths
2022	A*	`conf`	Using natural language and program abstractions to instill human inductive biases in machines. NeurIPS Sreejan Kumar, Carlos G. Correa, Ishita Dasgupta, Raja Marjieh, Michael Y. Hu, Robert D. Hawkins, Jonathan D. Cohen, Nathaniel D. Daw, Karthik Narasimhan, Tom Griffiths
2021	J	`jnl`	A pragmatic account of the weak evidence effect. CoRR Samuel A. Barnett, Robert D. Hawkins, Thomas L. Griffiths
2021	B	`conf`	Contextual Flexibility Guides Communication in a Cooperative Language Game. CogSci Abhilasha Ashok Kumar, Ketika Garg, Robert D. Hawkins
2021	B	`conf`	Extending rational models of communication from beliefs to actions. CogSci Theodore R. Sumers, Robert D. Hawkins, Mark K. Ho, Tom Griffiths
2021	B	`conf`	Learning to communicate about shared procedural abstractions. CogSci William P. McCarthy, Robert D. Hawkins, Haoliang Wang, Cameron Holdaway, Judith E. Fan
2021	J	`jnl`	Learning to communicate about shared procedural abstractions. CoRR William P. McCarthy, Robert D. Hawkins, Haoliang Wang, Cameron Holdaway, Judith E. Fan
2021	B	`conf`	Respect the code: Speakers expect novel conventions to generalize within but not across social group boundaries. CogSci Robert D. Hawkins, Irina Liu, Adele Goldberg, Tom Griffiths
2021	J	`jnl`	Visual resemblance and communicative context constrain the emergence of graphical conventions. CoRR Robert D. Hawkins, Megumi Sano, Noah D. Goodman, Judith E. Fan