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DMRL
IB
Correa, C. G., Sanborn, S., Ho, M. K., Callaway, F., Daw, N. D., & Griffiths, T. L. (2025). Exploring the hierarchical structure of human plans via program generation. Cognition, 255, 105990. (pdf)
CEIL
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Allen, K., Brändle, F., Botvinick, M., Fan, J. E., Gershman, S. J., Gopnik, A., Griffiths, T. L., Hartshorne, J. K., Hauser, T. U., Ho, M., de Leeuw, J. R., Ma, W. J., Murayama, K., Nelson, J. D., van Opheusden, B., Pouncy, T., Rafner, J., Rahwan, I., Rutledge, R. B., Sherson, J., Şimşek, Ö., Spiers, H., Summerfield, C., Thalmann, M., Vélez, N., Watrous, A. J., Tenenbaum, J. B., & Schulz, E. (2024). Using games to understand the mind. Nature Human Behaviour, 8, 1035–1043. (pdf)
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SC
Collins, K. M., Sucholutsky, I., Bhatt, U., Chandra, K., Wong, L., Lee, M., Zhang, C. E., Zhi-Xuan, T., Ho, M., Mansinghka, V., Weller, A., Tenenbaum, J. B., & Griffiths, T. L. (2024). Building machines that learn and think with people. Nature Human Behaviour, 8(10), 1851-1863. (pdf)
CI
CD
Harootonian, S. K., Niv, Y., Griffiths, T., & Ho, M. K. (2024). Modeling cognitive strategies in teaching: Integrating theory of mind and heuristics. 46th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
IB
S&C
Rane, S., Ho, M., Sucholutsky, I., & Griffiths, T. L. (2024). Concept alignment as a prerequisite for value alignment. 46th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
S&C
SC
Sucholutsky, I., Collins, K. M., Malaviya, M., Jacoby, N., Liu, W., Sumers, T. R., Korakakis, M., Bhatt, U., Ho, M., Tenenbaum, J. B., Love, B., Pardos, Z. A., Weller, A., & Griffiths, T. L. (2024). Representational alignment supports effective machine teaching. (preprint)
DMRL
RPM
Correa, C. G., Ho, M. K., Callaway, F., Daw, N. D., Griffiths, T. L. (2023). Humans decompose tasks by trading off utility and computational cost. PLOS Computational Biology, 19(6), e1011087. (pdf)
DMRL
He, R., Correa, C. G., Griffiths, T. L., & Ho, M. K. (2023). Structurally guided task decomposition in spatial navigation tasks (Student Abstract). Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 38. (pdf)
DMRL
Ho, M. K., Cohen, J. D., & Griffiths, T. L. (2023). Rational simplification and rigidity in human planning. Psychological Science, 34(11), 1281-1292. (pdf)
DMRL
IB
Rane, S., Ho, M., Sucholutsky, I., & Griffiths, T. L. (2023). Concept alignment as a prerequisite for value alignment. AAAI 2024 Bridge on Collaborative AI and Modeling of Humans. (pdf)
DMRL
SML
Sumers, T. R., Ho, M. K., Griffiths, T. L., & Hawkins, R. D. (2023). Reconciling truthfulness and relevance as epistemic and decision-theoretic utility. Psychological Review 131 (1), 194. (pdf)
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SML
Sumers, T. R., Ho, M. K., Hawkins, R. D., & Griffiths, T. L. (2023). Show or tell? Exploring when (and why) teaching with language outperforms demonstration. Cognition, 232, 105326. (pdf)
DMRL
RPM
Ho, M. K., Abel, D., Correa, C. G., Littman, M. L., Cohen, J. D., & Griffiths, T. L. (2022). People construct simplified mental representations to plan. Nature, 606(7912), 129-136. (pdf)
DMRL
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Ho, M. K., & Griffiths, T. L. (2022). Cognitive science as a source of forward and inverse models of human decisions for robotics and control. Annual Review of Control, Robotics, and Autonomous Systems, 5, 33-53. (pdf)
DMRL
E
Sumers, T. R., Hawkins, R. D., Ho, M. K., Griffiths, T. L., & Hadfield-Menell, D. (2022). How to talk so AI will learn: Instructions, descriptions, and autonomy. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 36. (pdf)
DMRL
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F
Dubey, R., Ho, M. K., Mehta, H., & Griffiths, T. L. (2021). Aha! Moments correspond to meta-cognitive prediction errors. (preprint)
DMRL
PR
Gates, V., Callaway, F., Ho, M. K., Griffiths, T. (2021). A rational model of people's inferences about others' preferences based on response times. Cognition, 217, 104885. (pdf)
DMRL
SML
Sumers, T. R., Hawkins, R. D., Ho, M. K., & Griffiths, T. L. (2021). Extending rational models of communication from beliefs to actions. Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
DMRL
SML
Sumers, T. R., Ho, M. K., Hawkins, R. D., Narasimhan, K. R., & Griffiths, T. L. (2021). Learning rewards from linguistic feedback. Proceedings of the 35th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. (pdf)
DMRL
RPM
Correa, C. G.*, Ho, M. K.*, Callaway, F., & Griffiths, T. L. (2020). Resource-rational Task Decomposition to Minimize Planning Costs. Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
DMRL
Ho, M. K., Abel, D., Cohen, J. D., Littman, M. L., & Griffiths, T. L. (2020). The Efficiency of Human Cognition Reflects Planned Information Processing. Proceedings of the 34th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. (pdf)
DMRL
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Sumers, T. R., Ho, M. K., & Griffiths, T. L. (2020). Show or tell? Demonstration is more robust to changes in shared perception than explanation. Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
DMRL
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Ho, M. K., Abel, D., Griffiths, T. L., & Littman, M. L. (2019). The value of abstraction. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 29, 111-116. (pdf)
DMRL
Carroll, M., Shah, R., Ho, M. K., Griffiths, T., Seshia, S., Abbeel, P., & Dragan, A. (2019). On the Utility of Learning about Humans for Human-AI Coordination. In H. Wallach, H. Larochelle, A. Beygelzimer, F. Alché-Buc, E. Fox, & R. Garnett (Eds.), Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 32, 5174–5185. (pdf)
DMRL
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Ho, M. K., Korman, J., & Griffiths, T. L. (2019). The computational structure of unintentional meaning. Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)

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