Learning to communicate about shared procedural abstractions

Understand

Many real-world tasks require agents to coordinate their behavior to achieve shared goals.

• Successful collaboration requires not only adopting the same communicative conventions, but also grounding these conventions in the same task-appropriate conceptual abstractions.
• We investigate how humans use natural language to collaboratively solve physical assembly problems more effectively over time.
• Human participants were paired up in an online environment to reconstruct scenes containing two block towers.