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Ben Prystawski

2 accepted papers

2026

Language and Experience: A Computational Model of Social Learning in Complex Tasks

ICLR 2026poster

The ability to combine linguistic guidance from others with direct experience is central to human development, enabling safe and rapid learning in new environments. How do people integrate these two sources of knowledge, and how might AI systems? We present a computational framework that models huma…

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2023

Why think step by step? Reasoning emerges from the locality of experience

NeurIPS 2023oral

Humans have a powerful and mysterious capacity to reason. Working through a set of mental steps enables us to make inferences we would not be capable of making directly even though we get no additional data from the world. Similarly, when large language models generate intermediate steps (a chain of…