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Tomer D. Ullman

Publication record assembled from the DBLP archive of ranked conferences.

Papers indexed

41

Venues

7

Active years

2011–2025

Best venue rank

A*

Where they publish

Papers

41 indexed papers, newest first.

YearVenueTitleAuthors
2025CogSciMaking Sense of Nonsense.Jennifer Hu, Felix A. Sosa, Tomer D. Ullman
2025CogSciThe Uncanny Valley meets the Humorous Hill: Things are funny when they match a pattern but fall short on quality.Antara Raaghavi Bhattacharya, Jennifer Hu, Tomer D. Ullman
2025CogSciStumped! Learning to think outside the box in 3-7 year old children.Junyi Chu, Misha O'Keeffe, Silvia Kancong Liu, Elizabeth Bonawitz, Tomer D. Ullman
2025CogSciIntuitions about prosocial backfiring: Four to seven-year olds' understanding of when helping might cause offense.Kiera Parece, Tomer D. Ullman, Laura Schulz
2025CogSciLanguage models assign responsibility based on actual rather than counterfactual contributions.Yang Xiang, Eric J. Bigelow, Tobias Gerstenberg, Tomer D. Ullman, Samuel Gershman
2025NAACLOne fish, two fish, but not the whole sea: Alignment reduces language models' conceptual diversity.Sonia K. Murthy, Tomer D. Ullman, Jennifer Hu
2024ACLMMToM-QA: Multimodal Theory of Mind Question Answering.Chuanyang Jin, Yutong Wu, Jing Cao, Jiannan Xiang, Yen-Ling Kuo, Zhiting Hu, Tomer D. Ullman, Antonio Torralba, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Tianmin Shu
2024CogSciShades of Zero: Distinguishing impossibility from inconceivability.Jennifer Hu, Felix A. Sosa, Tomer D. Ullman
2024CogSciThe Task Task: Creative problem generation in humans and language models.Junyi Chu, Jennifer Hu, Tomer D. Ullman
2024CogSciExploring Loophole Behavior: A Comparative Study of Autistic and Non-Autistic Populations.Kiera Parece, Sophie Bridgers, Tomer D. Ullman, Laura Schulz
2024ICLRIn-Context Learning Dynamics with Random Binary Sequences.Eric J. Bigelow, Ekdeep Singh Lubana, Robert P. Dick, Hidenori Tanaka, Tomer D. Ullman
2023CogSciSkirting the Sacred: Moral Violations Make Intentional Misunderstandings Worse.Kiera Parece, Sophie Bridgers, Laura Schulz, Tomer D. Ullman
2023EMNLPComparing the Evaluation and Production of Loophole Behavior in Humans and Large Language Models.Sonia K. Murthy, Kiera Parece, Sophie Bridgers, Peng Qian, Tomer D. Ullman
2022CogSciAdults' Evaluations of Rote and Reflective Teachers.Ilona Bass, Elizabeth Bonawitz, Tomer D. Ullman
2022CogSciPeople's evaluation of programs that drive agents' behavior.Eric J. Bigelow, Tomer D. Ullman
2022CogSciCombining mental simulation and abstract reasoning explains people's reaction time in an intuitive physics task.Felix A. Sosa, Samuel Gershman, Tomer D. Ullman
2021CogSciLoopholes, a Window into Value Alignment and the Learning of Meaning.Sophie Bridgers, Laura Schulz, Tomer D. Ullman
2021ICLRUnsupervised Discovery of 3D Physical Objects from Video.Yilun Du, Kevin A. Smith, Tomer D. Ullman, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Jiajun Wu
2021ICMLAGENT: A Benchmark for Core Psychological Reasoning.Tianmin Shu, Abhishek Bhandwaldar, Chuang Gan, Kevin A. Smith, Shari Liu, Dan Gutfreund, Elizabeth S. Spelke, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Tomer D. Ullman
2021IJCAITemporal and Object Quantification Networks.Jiayuan Mao, Zhezheng Luo, Chuang Gan, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Jiajun Wu, Leslie Pack Kaelbling, Tomer D. Ullman
2020CogSciThe Origins of Common Sense in Humans and Machines.Kevin Smith, Eliza Kosoy, Alison Gopnik, Deepak Pathak, Alan Fern, Josh Tenenbaum, Tomer D. Ullman
2020CogSciThe fine structure of surprise in intuitive physics: when, why, and how much?Kevin Smith, Lingjie Mei, Shunyu Yao, Jiajun Wu, Elizabeth S. Spelke, Josh Tenenbaum, Tomer D. Ullman
2020CogSciLook before you leap: Quantitative tradeoffs between peril and reward in action understanding.Nensi Gjata, Tomer D. Ullman, Elizabeth S. Spelke, Shari Liu
2020CogSciAdventures in Flatland: Perceiving Social Interactions Under Physical Dynamics.Tianmin Shu, Marta Kryven, Tomer D. Ullman, Josh Tenenbaum
2019CogSciPeople's perception of others' risk preferences.Shari Liu, John McCoy, Tomer D. Ullman
2019CogSciDraping an Elephant: Uncovering Children's Reasoning About Cloth-Covered Objects.Tomer D. Ullman, Eliza Kosoy, Ilker Yildirim, Amir Arsalan Soltani, Max H. Siegel, Josh Tenenbaum, Elizabeth S. Spelke
2018CogSciModels of Human Scientific Discovery.Robert L. Goldstone, Alison Gopnik, Paul Thagard, Tomer D. Ullman
2018CogSciMoral Dynamics: A Computational Model of Moral Judgment.Felix Sosa, Tomer D. Ullman, Samuel Gershman, Josh Tenenbaum, Tobias Gerstenberg
2017CogSciThinking and Guessing: Bayesian and Empirical Models of How Humans Search.Marta Kryven, Tomer D. Ullman, William Cowan, Josh Tenenbaum
2017CogSciWhat's worth the effort: Ten-month-old infants infer the value of goals from the costs of actions.Shari Liu, Tomer D. Ullman, Josh Tenenbaum, Elizabeth S. Spelke
2017CogSciWeight matters: The role of physical weight in non-physical language across age and culture.Tomer D. Ullman, Santiago Alonso-Diaz, Stephen Ferrigno, Sarina Zahid, Celeste Kidd
2017ICLRA Compositional Object-Based Approach to Learning Physical Dynamics.Michael Chang, Tomer D. Ullman, Antonio Torralba, Joshua B. Tenenbaum
2016CogSciOutcome or Strategy? A Bayesian Model of Intelligence Attribution.Marta Kryven, Tomer D. Ullman, William Cowan, Josh Tenenbaum
2016CogSciCoalescing the Vapors of Human Experience into a Viable and Meaningful Comprehension.Tomer D. Ullman, Max H. Siegel, Josh Tenenbaum, Samuel Gershman
2016CogSciThe Pragmatics of Spatial Language.Tomer D. Ullman, Yang Xu, Noah D. Goodman
2014CogSciWins above replacement: Responsibility attributions as counterfactual replacements.Tobias Gerstenberg, Tomer D. Ullman, Max Kleiman-Weiner, David A. Lagnado, Joshua B. Tenenbaum
2014CogSciLearning physical theories from dynamical scenes.Tomer D. Ullman, Andreas Stuhlmller, Noah D. Goodman, Joshua B. Tenenbaum
2013CogSciMinimal Nativism: How does cognitive development get off the ground?Tomer D. Ullman, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Noah D. Goodman, Shimon Ullman, Elizabeth S. Spelke
2012CogSciComputational Models of Intuitive Physics.Peter W. Battaglia, Tomer D. Ullman, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Adam Sanborn, Kenneth D. Forbus, Tobias Gerstenberg, David A. Lagnado
2012CogSciProbabilistic generative models for counterfactual reasoning and blame attribution.John McCoy, Tomer D. Ullman, Andreas Stuhlmller, Tobias Gerstenberg, Joshua B. Tenenbaum
2011CogSciForward Physics: How people learn and generalize novel dynamical models.Tomer D. Ullman, Noah D. Goodman, Josh Tenenbaum