Papers by Kunal Handa
“Mistakes Help Us Grow”: Facilitating and Evaluating Growth Mindset Supportive Language in Classrooms (2023.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | GMSL has been shown to significantly reduce disparities in academic achievement and enhance students’ learning outcomes. |
| Approach: | They develop a coaching tool to reframe unsupportive utterances to GMSL using large language models. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms the GMSL-trained teachers in fostering a growth mindset and promoting challenge-seeking behavior. |
Emergence of Abstract State Representations in Embodied Sequence Modeling (2023.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Sequence modeling is a simple yet versatile task that can be applied to more complex decision-making domains. |
| Approach: | They build a sequence modeling Transformer which takes a language instruction, actions, and environmental observations as inputs and then trains a model to reconstruct environmental layouts. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model can reconstruct environmental layouts from the inputs of the model and language instructions play a role in the reconstruction accuracy. |