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PM @ DARPA 2023-present; Professor of Math and CS, https://t.co/XuiVK8VmO3 @Rutgers-Newark; co-founder @ https://t.co/IRDU4HVZYL; School of Math @the_IAS 2021-2023
Oct 11, 2019 7 tweets 3 min read
New: "A mathematical theory of cooperative communication". arxiv.org/abs/1910.02822

Wondering about foundations for human-human and human-machine/robot cooperation? We have you covered! We show that models across these literatures are approximations of Optimal (belief) transport Probabilistic cooperative Theory of Mind reasoning in the discrete case is Sinkhorn scaling. It gives the maximum likelihood belief transport plan!