Pushpi Paranamana

2 accepted papers

2020

A mathematical theory of cooperative communication

Pei Wang, Junqi Wang, Pushpi Paranamana, Patrick Shafto

NeurIPS 2020oral

Cooperative communication plays a central role in theories of human cognition, language, development, culture, and human-robot interaction. Prior models of cooperative communication are algorithmic in nature and do not shed light on why cooperation may yield effective belief transmission and what li…

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2019

Generalizing the theory of cooperative inference

Pei Wang, Pushpi Paranamana, Patrick Shafto

AISTATS 2019poster

Cooperation information sharing is important to theories of human learning and has potential implications for machine learning. Prior work derived conditions for achieving optimal Cooperative Inference given strong, relatively restrictive assumptions. We relax these assumptions by demonstrating conv…

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