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From Action to Abstraction: Learning Concepts through Sensorimotor Interactions

Find a direct link to the paper here. A thought experiment Imagine that you wake up in a strange room. It’s not the nice bedroom you went to sleep in, but a dimly lit cell with a damp, cold floor. The walls are made out of cracking plaster and the only intended way in or…

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Common Sense, Cortex, and CAPTCHA

October 26, 2017

Direct link to Science paper full text. Introduction From the moment we are born, we begin using our senses to build a coherent model of the world. As we grow, we constantly refine our model and access it effortlessly as we go about our lives. If we see a ball rolling onto the street, we might reason that a child…

Toward Learning a Compositional Visual Representation

October 20, 2017

Direct link to CVPR paper here. Introduction Humans understand the world as a sum of its parts. Shapes are composed of other shapes, objects can be broken down into pieces, and this sentence is nothing more than a series of words. When presented with a new shape, object, or sentence, people can decompose the novelty into familiar parts.…

General Game Playing with Schema Networks

August 7, 2017

Direct link to the Schema Networks paper here. Introduction The success of deep reinforcement learning (deep RL) in playing games has resulted in a large amount of excitement in the AI community and beyond (Mnih et al., 2015; Mnih et al., 2016; Silver et al., 2016; Van Hasselt et al., 2016). State-of-the-art scores in many different games have…