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DMRL Dubey, R. , Ho, M. , Mehta, H. , & Griffiths, T. L. (2026). Aha! moments correspond to metacognitive prediction errors. Cognition , 274 , 106537. (pdf)
SC SML Harootonian, S. K. , Ho, M. K. , Griffiths, T. L. , Niv, Y. , & Sucholutsky, I. (2026). Do large language models mentalize when they teach?. (preprint)
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)
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. (2025). Representational alignment supports effective teaching. ICLR 2025 Workshop on Bidirectional Human-AI Alignment (pdf)
CEIL F 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)
F 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)
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)
E 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 F 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 E Dubey, R. , Ho, M. K. , Mehta, H. , & Griffiths, T. L. (2021). Aha! Moments correspond to meta-cognitive prediction errors. (preprint)
PR SC 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 P 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 F 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 PR 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)