Kelsey Allen, University of British Columbia

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Empowerment gain and causal model construction: children and adults are sensitive to controllability and variability in their causal interventions.
Philosophical transactions. Series A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences · 2026
Bayesian teaching enables probabilistic reasoning in large language models.
Nature communications · 2026

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2 publications.

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Empowerment gain and causal model construction: children and adults are sensitive to controllability and variability in their causal interventions.

Yiu E, Allen K, Ginosar S, Gopnik A

Philosophical transactions. Series A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences2026

DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2025.0003 PMID: 42130426

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Bayesian teaching enables probabilistic reasoning in large language models.

Qiu L, Sha F, Allen K, Kim Y, Linzen T, van Steenkiste S

Nature communications2026

DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-67998-6 PMID: 41501038

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