Hokin Deng

Hi, there! I work at the intersection of human and machine intelligence. I have two convictions on intelligence: one is development, the other is embodiedment.

You could check out my works on the developmental approach to intelligence at Growing AI Like A Child.

Joining MyoLab as a founding member of technical staff, I embark on the journey of building Human-Embodied artificial intelligence.

Previously, I studied philosophy at Johns Hopkins. There, I was mentored and deeply influenced by Michael Williams, Peter Achinstein, and Eckart Förster.

G.Scholar     X     Bluesky     Contact me: hokind@andrew.cmu.edu

Core Knowledge Deficits in Multi-Modal Language Models

Yijiang Li, Qingying Gao, Tianwei Zhao, Bingyang Wang, Haiyun Lyu, Haoran Sun, Robert D. Hawkins, Nuno Vasconcelos, Tal Golan, Dezhi Luo, Hokin Deng
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ICML 2025

Can Vision Language Models Infer Human Gaze Direction? A Controlled Study

Zory Zhang†, Pinyuan Feng†, Bingyang Wang, Tianwei Zhao, Suyang Yu, Qingying Gao, Hokin Deng*, Ziqiao Ma*, Yijiang Li*, Dezhi Luo*
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[Under Review]

Vision Language Models See What You Want but not What You See

Qingying Gao, Yijiang Li, Haiyun Lyu, Haoran Sun, Dezhi Luo, Hokin Deng
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BiAlign @ ICLR 2025 & ToM4AI @ AAAI 2025

Vision Language Models Know Law of Conservation without Understanding More-or-Less

Dezhi Luo, Haiyun Lyu, Qingying Gao, Haoran Sun, Yijiang Li, Hokin Deng
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Bidirectional Human-AI Alignment @ ICLR 2025

Probing Mechanical Reasoning in Large Vision Language Models

Haoran Sun, Yijiang Li, Qingying Gao, Haiyun Lyu, Dezhi Luo, Hokin Deng
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Bidirectional Human-AI Alignment @ ICLR 2025

Evaluating Multi-modal Language Models Through Concept Hacking

Yijiang Li, Bingyang Wang, Tianwei Zhao, Qingying Gao, Hokin Deng, Dezhi Luo
Poster  •   Paper

SCSL @ ICLR 2025

Probing Perceptual Constancy in Large Vision Language Models

Haoran Sun, Suyang Yu, Yijiang Li, Qingying Gao, Haiyun Lyu, Hokin Deng, Dezhi Luo
Paper  •   Data

Under Conference Review

The Philosophical Foundations of Growing AI Like A Child

Dezhi Luo, Yijiang Li, Hokin Deng
Paper

Under Journal Review