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Joshua Peterson

4 accepted papers

2025

Large Language Models Assume People are More Rational than We Really are

ICLR 2025poster

In order for AI systems to communicate effectively with people, they must understand how we make decisions. However, people's decisions are not always rational, so the implicit internal models of human decision-making in Large Language Models (LLMs) must account for this. Previous empirical evidence…

2023

On the informativeness of supervision signals

UAI 2023poster

Supervised learning typically focuses on learning transferable representations from training examples annotated by humans. While rich annotations (like soft labels) carry more information than sparse annotations (like hard labels), they are also more expensive to collect. For example, while hard lab…

Cited by 17SourcePDFScholar
2018

Capturing Human Category Representations by Sampling in Deep Feature Spaces

ICLR 2018workshop

Understanding how people represent categories is a core problem in cognitive science, with the flexibility of human learning remaining a gold standard to which modern artificial intelligence and machine learning aspire. Decades of psychological research have yielded a variety of formal theories of c…

Cited by 7SourceScholar