Computational Minds and Machines Lab

Modeling Others' Minds as Code

Jha, Huang, Ye, Jaques, Kleiman-Weiner (2025). arXiv, NeurIPS LAW Workshop Agents and Planning Best Paper Award

Estimating the Empowerment of Language Model Agents

Song, Gore, Kleiman-Weiner (2025). arXiv

When Empowerment Disempowers

Yang, Cakmak, Kleiman-Weiner (2025). arXiv

Generative Value Conflicts Reveal LLM Priorities

Liu, Ghate, Diab, Fried, Kasirzadeh, Kleiman-Weiner (2025). arXiv

Evolving general cooperation with a Bayesian theory of mind

Kleiman-Weiner, Vientos, Rand, Tenenbaum (2025). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Cross-environment Cooperation Enables Zero-shot Multi-agent Coordination

Jha, Carvalho, Liang, Du, Kleiman-Weiner*, Jaques* (2025). ICML (Oral)

Evaluating LLMs in Open-Source Games

Sistla, Kleiman-Weiner (2025). NeurIPS

Inference from social evaluation

Davis, Allen, Kleiman-Weiner, Jara-Ettinger, Gerstenberg (2025). Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

The Lock-in Hypothesis: Stagnation by Algorithm

Qiu, He, Chugh, Kleiman-Weiner (2025). ICML

When Bayesians take over: A computational model of parental intervention

Shachnai, Kleiman-Weiner, Berke, Leonard (2025). CogSci

Are Language Models Consequentialist or Deontological Moral Reasoners?

Samway*, Kleiman-Weiner*, Piedrahita, Mihalcea, Schölkopf, Jin (2025). EMNLP

Preserving Sense of Agency: User Preferences for Robot Autonomy and User Control across Household Tasks

Yang, Patel, Kleiman-Weiner, Cakmak (2025). IEEE RO-MAN

Similar failures of consideration arise in human and machine planning

Zhang, Langenkamp, Kleiman-Weiner, Oikarinen, Cushman (2025). Cognition

Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and bonobos (Pan paniscus) chase prey around obstacles in virtual environments.

Rapport Munro, Koopman, Anderson, Schweller, Röhr, Kleiman-Weiner, Lewis, Klein, Allritz, Robinson, and others (2025). Journal of Comparative Psychology

Cooperate or Collapse: Emergence of Sustainable Cooperation in a Society of LLM Agents

Piatti*, Jin*, Kleiman-Weiner*, Schölkopf, Sachan, Mihalcea (2024). NeurIPS

Language Model Alignment in Multilingual Trolley Problems

Jin*, Kleiman-Weiner*, Piatti*, Levine, Liu, Gonzalez, Ortu, Strausz, Sachan, Mihalcea, and others (2024). ICLR (Spotlight), NeurIPS Pluralistic Alignment Workshop Best Paper Award

Most people do not "value the struggle": Tempted agents are judged as less virtuous than those who were never tempted

McManus, Fong, Kleiman-Weiner, Young (2024). Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Value internalization: Learning and generalizing from social reward

Rong, Kleiman-Weiner (2024). RLC

When rules are over-ruled: Virtual bargaining as a contractualist method of moral judgment

Levine, Kleiman-Weiner, Chater, Cushman, Tenenbaum (2024). Cognition

Safetyanalyst: Interpretable, transparent, and steerable safety moderation for ai behavior

Li, Pyatkin, Kleiman-Weiner, Jiang, Dziri, Collins, Borg, Sap, Choi, Levine (2024). ICML

When is it acceptable to break the rules? Knowledge representation of moral judgements based on empirical data

Awad, Levine, Loreggia, Mattei, Rahwan, Rossi, Talamadupula, Tenenbaum, Kleiman-Weiner (2024). Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems

Approximate planning in spatial search

Kryven, Yu, Kleiman-Weiner, Ullman, Tenenbaum (2024). PLOS Computational Biology

Assessing and dissociating virtues from the 'bottom up': A case study of generosity vs. fairness

Kraft-Todd, Kleiman-Weiner, Young (2023). The Journal of Positive Psychology

Cladder: Assessing causal reasoning in language models

Jin, Chen, Leeb, Gresele, Kamal, Lyu, Blin, Gonzalez Adauto, Kleiman-Weiner, Sachan, and others (2023). NeurIPS

Emotion prediction as computation over a generative theory of mind

Houlihan, Kleiman-Weiner, Hewitt, Tenenbaum, Saxe (2023). Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A

Learning intuitive policies using action features

Ma, Liu, Sokota, Kleiman-Weiner, Foerster (2023). ICML

Virtue discounting: Observability reduces moral actors' perceived virtue

Kraft-Todd, Kleiman-Weiner, Young (2023). Open Mind

Overloaded communication as paternalistic helping

Stacy, Parab, Kleiman-Weiner, Gao (2022). CogSci

Too Many Cooks: Bayesian Inference for Coordinating Multi-Agent Collaboration

Wu*, Wang*, Evans, Tenenbaum, Parkes, Kleiman-Weiner (2021). Topics in Cognitive Science, CogSci Modeling Prize for Higher Cognition, NeurIPS Cooperative AI Workshop Best Paper Award

Modeling communication to coordinate perspectives in cooperation

Stacy, Li, Zhao, Yun, Zhao, Kleiman-Weiner, Gao (2021). arXiv

Downloading Culture.zip: Social learning by program induction

Kleiman-Weiner*, Sosa*, Thompson, van Opheusden, Griffiths, Gershman, Cushman (2020). CogSci

Drivers are blamed more than their automated cars when both make mistakes

Awad, Levine, Kleiman-Weiner, Dsouza, Tenenbaum, Shariff, Bonnefon, Rahwan (2020). Nature Human Behaviour

Nonlinearities between inhibition and T-type calcium channel activity bidirectionally regulate thalamic oscillations

Lu, Lee, Kleiman-Weiner, Truong, Wang, Huguenard, Beenhakker (2020). Elife

The logic of universalization guides moral judgment

Levine, Kleiman-Weiner, Schulz, Tenenbaum, Cushman (2020). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

What we owe to family: The impact of special obligations on moral judgment

McManus, Kleiman-Weiner, Young (2020). Psychological Science

Finding friend and foe in multi-agent games

Serrino*, Kleiman-Weiner*, Parkes, Tenenbaum (2019). NeurIPS (Spotlight)

People make the same Bayesian judgment they criticize in others

Cao, Kleiman-Weiner, Banaji (2019). Psychological Science

Theory of minds: Understanding behavior in groups through inverse planning

Shum*, Kleiman-Weiner*, Littman, Tenenbaum (2019). AAAI (Oral)

A computational model of commonsense moral decision making

Kim, Kleiman-Weiner, Abeliuk, Awad, Dsouza, Tenenbaum, Rahwan (2018). Proceedings of the 2018 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society

Learning to share and hide intentions using information regularization

Strouse, Kleiman-Weiner, Tenenbaum, Botvinick, Schwab (2018). NeurIPS

Lucky or clever? From expectations to responsibility judgments

Gerstenberg, Ullman, Nagel, Kleiman-Weiner, Lagnado, Tenenbaum (2018). Cognition

Non-parametric Bayesian inference of strategies in repeated games

Kleiman-Weiner, Tenenbaum, Zhou (2018). The Econometrics Journal

Towards formal definitions of blameworthiness, intention, and moral responsibility

Halpern, Kleiman-Weiner (2018). AAAI (Oral)

Learning a commonsense moral theory

Kleiman-Weiner, Saxe, Tenenbaum (2017). Cognition (SPP William James Prize)

Constructing Social Preferences From Anticipated Judgments: When Impartial Inequity is Fair and Why?

Kleiman-Weiner, Shaw, Tenenbaum (2017). CogSci (Oral)

Preschoolers and Infants Calibrate Persistence from Adult Models

Leonard, Kleiman-Weiner, Lee, Tenenbaum, Schulz (2017). CogSci

Statistically inaccurate and morally unfair judgements via base rate intrusion

Cao, Kleiman-Weiner, Banaji (2017). Nature Human Behaviour

Coordinate to cooperate or compete: abstract goals and joint intentions in social interaction

Kleiman-Weiner, Ho, Austerweil, Michael L, Tenenbaum (2016). CogSci (Oral), RLDM Best Paper Award

Feature-based Joint Planning and Norm Learning in Collaborative Games

Ho, MacGlashan, Greenwald, Littman, Hilliard, Trimbach, Brawner, Tenenbaum, Kleiman-Weiner, Austerweil (2016). CogSci

Inference of Intention and Permissibility in Moral Decision Making

Kleiman-Weiner, Gerstenberg, Levine, Tenenbaum (2015). CogSci (Oral)

Eggs versus chewable vitamins: Which intervention can increase nutrition and test scores in rural China?

Kleiman-Weiner, Luo, Zhang, Shi, Medina, Rozelle (2013). China Economic Review

Multiple micronutrient supplementation reduces anemia and anxiety in rural China's elementary school children

Zhang LinXiu, Kleiman-Weiner, Luo RenFu, Shi YaoJiang, Martorell, Medina, Rozelle (2013). Journal of Nutrition

Anemia in rural China's elementary schools: prevalence and correlates in Shaanxi province's poor counties

Luo, Kleiman-Weiner, Rozelle, Zhang, Liu, Sharbono, Shi, Yue, Martorell, Lee (2010). Ecology of food and nutrition

Rescuing the corticostriatal synaptic disconnection in the R6/2 mouse model of Huntington's disease: exercise, adenosine receptors and ampakines

Cepeda, Cummings, Hickey, Kleiman-Weiner, Chen, Watson, Levine (2010). PLoS currents

A gain in GABAA receptor synaptic strength in thalamus reduces oscillatory activity and absence seizures

Schofield, Kleiman-Weiner, Rudolph, Huguenard (2009). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Synergistic roles of GABAA receptors and SK channels in regulating thalamocortical oscillations

Kleiman-Weiner, Beenhakker, Segal, Huguenard (2009). Journal of Neurophysiology

Differential electrophysiological properties of dopamine D1 and D2 receptor-containing striatal medium-sized spiny neurons

Cepeda, André, Yamazaki, Wu, Kleiman-Weiner, Levine (2008). European Journal of Neuroscience

The sound of one arm swinging: a model for multidimensional auditory display of physical motion

Kleiman-Weiner, Berger (2006). Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Auditory Display. ICAD