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Joshua Tenenbaum

Professor @ Massachusetts Institute of Technology

large language models

pragmatics

semantic parsing

logical reasoning

planning

theory of mind

social interaction

multimodal models

goal selection

cognitive robotics

ml: relational learning

modeling other agents

prs: planning/scheduling and learning

prs: mixed discrete/continuous planning

planning/scheduling and learning

31

presentations

198

number of views

SHORT BIO

Joshua Tenenbaum is a cognitive scientist working at the intersection of computational cognitive science, developmental psychology, neuroscience, and artificial intelligence to investigate how the mind works. The human mind can acquire knowledge from very limited input and rapidly sort through noisy, conflicting information to reach judgments. Tenenbaum is one of the first to develop and apply probabilistic and statistical modeling to the study of human learning, reasoning, and perception, and to show how these models can explain a fundamental challenge of cognition: how our minds understand so much from so little, so quickly.

Presentations

MMToM-QA: Multimodal Theory of Mind Question Answering

Chuanyang Jin and 9 other authors

Generalized Planning in PDDL Domains with Pretrained Large Language Models | VIDEO

Tom Silver and 5 other authors

Neural Amortized Inference for Nested Multi-Agent Reasoning | VIDEO

Kunal Jha and 5 other authors

LINC: A Neurosymbolic Approach for Logical Reasoning by Combining Language Models with First-Order Logic Provers

Theo X. Olausson and 6 other authors

Towards a model of confidence judgements

Tracey Mills and 3 other authors

LLMs are pretty strong pragmatic reasoners: Investigating amortized inferences about gradable adjectives in large language models

Ben Lipkin and 3 other authors

"Just In Time" Representations for Mental Simulation in Intuitive Physics

Tony Chen and 4 other authors

Strategy choice for physical reasoning is (partially) sensitive to cognitive costs

Kevin Smith and 3 other authors

Evaluating statistical language models as pragmatic reasoners

Ben Lipkin and 3 other authors

Learning to See the Human Way

Joshua Tenenbaum

Learning Rational Subgoals from Demonstrations and Instructions

Zhezheng Luo and 5 other authors

Zero-shot linear combinations of grounded social interactions with Linear Social MDPs

Yen-Ling Kuo and 7 other authors

Predicate Invention for Bilevel Planning

Tom Silver and 6 other authors

Discovering State and Action Abstractions for Generalized Task and Motion Planning

Aidan Curtis and 4 other authors

MOST-GAN: 3D Morphable StyleGAN for Disentangled Face Image Manipulation

Safa C. Medin and 6 other authors

Seeing in the dark: Testing deep neural network and analysis-by-synthesis accounts of 3D shape perception with highly degraded images

Hakan Yilmaz and 4 other authors

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