Common Ground in Cooperative Communication

Explore a 50-minute lecture on "Common Ground in Cooperative Communication" presented by Patrick Shafto from Rutgers University at IPAM's Theory and Practice of Deep Learning Workshop. Delve into the fundamental role of cooperative communication in human-human interaction, cognition, culture, development, language, and human-robot interaction. Examine the core challenge of common ground in communication and how prior models have assumed perfect knowledge sharing. Discover a new general theory of cooperative communication that defines a spectrum of common ground possibilities beyond perfect knowledge sharing. Learn about the connection between this framework and variational autoencoding in machine learning. Gain insights into the mathematical principles behind this theory and its applications in various fields of study.