Theory
1,949 items in 14 lists
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Human-level concept learning through probabilistic program induction science.org
Science, 2015. [All Versions]. [Preprint]. [Supplementary Material]. People learning new concepts can often generalize successfully from just a single example, yet machine learning algorithms typically require tens or hundreds of examples to perform with similar accuracy…
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Reproducibility science.org
Science, 2014. [All Versions].
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How to Grow a Mind: Statistics, Structure, and Abstraction science.org
Science, 2011. [All Versions]. [Preprint]. This review describes recent approaches to reverse-engineering human learning and cognitive development and, in parallel, engineering more humanlike machine learning systems. Computational models that perform probabilistic inference…
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Human-level few-shot concept induction through minimax entropy learning science.org
Science Advances, 2024. [All Versions]. This paper introduces a computational model designed to emulate human inductive reasoning on abstract reasoning tasks, such as those in IQ tests, using a minimax entropy approach. This method combines identifying the most effective…
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Science Advances, 2019. [All Versions]. In the process of finding high-performance materials for organic photovoltaics (OPVs), it is meaningful if one can establish the relationship between chemical structures and photovoltaic properties even before synthesizing them. This work…
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AI Feynman: A physics-inspired method for symbolic regression science.org
Science Advances, 2019. [All Versions]. A core challenge for both physics and artificial intelligence (AI) is symbolic regression: finding a symbolic expression that matches data from an unknown function. Although this problem is likely to be NP-hard in principle, functions of…
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Beyond imitation: Zero-shot task transfer on robots by learning concepts as cognitive programs science.org
Science Robotics, 2019. [All Versions]. Humans can infer concepts from image pairs and apply those in the physical world in a completely different setting, enabling tasks like IKEA assembly from diagrams. If robots could represent and infer high-level concepts, then it would…
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From language development to language evolution: A unified view of human lexical creativity science.org
Science, 2023. [All Versions]. [Preprint]. This work supports a unified foundation for human lexical creativity underlying both the fleeting products of individual ontogeny and the evolutionary products of phylogeny across languages.
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Science, 1974. [All Versions]. Daniel Kahneman's classic idea of prospective theory.
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Predicting Pragmatic Reasoning in Language Games science.org
Science, 2012. [All Versions]. [Preprint]. One of the most astonishing features of human language is its capacity to convey information efficiently in context. Many theories provide informal accounts of communicative inference, yet there have been few successes in making…
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A tale of two explanations: Enhancing human trust by explaining robot behavior science.org
Science Robotics, 2019. [All Versions]. [Preprint]. The ability to provide comprehensive explanations of chosen actions is a hallmark of intelligence. Lack of this ability impedes the general acceptance of AI and robot systems in critical tasks. This paper examines what forms…
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Learning skillful medium-range global weather forecasting science.org
Science, 2023. [All Versions].
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Explanatory Preferences Shape Learning and Inference scholar.princeton.edu
Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2016. [All Versions]. People often learn by seeking explanations, and they assess the viability of hypotheses by considering how well they explain the data. An emerging body of work reveals that both children and adults have strong and systematic…
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The weirdest people in the world? scholar.harvard.edu
Brain and Behavioral Sciences, 2010. [All Versions]. The original paper on rethinking and tackling the sample bias in behaivoral studies, where most subjects are drawn from Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic (WEIRD) societies.
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A Generalized Earley Parser for Human Activity Parsing and Prediction scholar.google.com
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2020. [All Versions]. Detection, parsing, and future predictions on sequence data (e.g., videos) require the algorithms to capture non-Markovian and compositional properties of high-level semantics. Context-free…
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What happened? Reconstructing the past through vision and sound scholar.google.com
2021. [All Versions].
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DreamCoder: growing generalizable, interpretable knowledge with wake–sleep Bayesian program learning royalsocietypublishing.org
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, 2023. [All Versions]. [Preprint]. This paper presents DreamCoder, a system that learns to solve problems by writing programs. It builds expertise by creating domain-specific programming languages for expressing domain concepts…
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Tool use as adaptation royalsocietypublishing.org
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2013. [All Versions].
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Robotic hand augmentation drives changes in neural body representation robotics.sciencemag.org
Science Robotics, 2021. [All Versions].
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Deep Learning and the Information Bottleneck Principle robotics.caltech.edu
IEEE Information Theory Workshop'15, 2015. [All Versions]. The first paper identifying the problem of information bottleneck in representation learning.
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Multiple Causes of Difficulty in Insight: The Case of the Nine-Dot Problem researchgate.net
Journal of Experimental Psychology, 2004. [All Versions]. [APA].
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What Makes an Insight Problem? The Roles of Heuristics, Goal Conception, and Solution Recoding in Knowledge-Lean… researchgate.net
Journal of Experimental Psychology, 2004. [All Versions]. [APA].
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Investigating the effect of Mental Set on Insight Problem Solving researchgate.net
Experimental Psychology, 2008. [All Versions].
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Visual complexity: a review researchgate.net
Psychological Bulletin, 2006. [All Versions]. [APA]. A psychological account on visual complexity.
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Cognitive engineering: Human problem solving with tools researchgate.net
Human Factors, 1988. [All Versions]. The original idea of investigating huamn tool use in problem solving.
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12- and 18-Month-Olds Point to Provide Information for Others pure.mpg.de
Journal of Cognition and Development, 2009. [All Versions].
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How variability shapes learning and generalization pure.mpg.de
Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2022. [All Versions]. A comprehensive review on the trade-off between variability and generalization ability.
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Towards an argument interchange format pure.mpg.de
The Knowledge Engineering Review, 2006. [All Versions]. The original paper introducing the Argument Interchange Format (AIF) framework for argumentation analysis.
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Automation isn't automatic pubs.rsc.org
Chemical Science, 2021. [All Versions]. This perspective provides an overview of the current state of automation of synthetic chemistry at the benchtop scale with a particular emphasis on core considerations and the ensuing challenges of deploying a system. The authors aim to…
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Chemputation and the Standardization of Chemical Informatics pubs.acs.org
Journal of the American Chemical Society (Au), 2021. [All Versions]. This paper describes a standard hardware (the chemical processing programming architecture --- the ChemPU) to encompass all chemical synthesis, an approach which unifies all chemistry automation strategies…
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Artificial Intelligence for Retrosynthetic Planning Needs Both Data and Expert Knowledge pubs.acs.org
Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2024. [All Versions]. The development of AI synthesis planners trained solely on reaction-example-data has stagnated and is not on par with the performance of “hybrid” algorithms combining AI with expert knowledge. This Perspective…
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A Logic Programming Language for Computational Nucleic Acid Devices pubs.acs.org
ACS Synthetic Biology, 2018. [All Versions]. This paper presents a logic programming language that allows a broad range of computational nucleic acid systems to be designed and analyzed. The language extends standard logic programming with a novel equational theory to express…
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The psychology of virtual reality psycnet.apa.org
The psychology of technology: Social science research in the age of Big Data (pp. 155–193), American Psychological Association, 2022. [All Versions]. Jeremy Bailenson's review on the applications of Virtual Reality to behavioral studies.
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A theory of relation learning and cross-domain generalization psycnet.apa.org
Psychological Review, 2022. [All Versions]. A comprehensive review on the perspective of treating analogy as cross-domain generalization.
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Unit of visual working memory: A Boolean map provides a better account than an object does psycnet.apa.org
Journal of Experimental Psychology, 2020. [All Versions].
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The language of generalization psycnet.apa.org
Psychological Review, 2019. [All Versions].
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Best, second-best, and good-enough explanations: How they matter to reasoning psycnet.apa.org
Journal of Experimental Psychology, 2018. [All Versions]. There is a wealth of evidence that people’s reasoning is influenced by explanatory considerations. Three experiments investigate the descriptive adequacy of a precise proposal to be found in the philosophical literature…
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Reconstructing constructivism: Causal models, Bayesian learning mechanisms, and the theory theory psycnet.apa.org
Psychological Bulletin, 2012. [All Versions]. Alison Gopnik's review on the constructivism idea of developmental research, including the theory theory of concepts.
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Hypothesis generation, sparse categories, and the positive test strategy psycnet.apa.org
Psychological Review, 2011. [All Versions].
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Gestalt theory psycnet.apa.org
A source book of Gestalt psychology, 1938. [All Versions]. The original book on Gestalt psychology.
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Exploring science: The cognition and development of discovery processes psycnet.apa.org
MIT Press, 2000. [All Versions]. In this book, D. Klahr sets out to describe the cognitive and developmental processes that have enabled scientists to make the discoveries that comprise the body of information we call "scientific knowledge." Over the past decade, Klahr and his…
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The Theory Theory psycnet.apa.org
Mapping the mind: Domain specificity in cognition and culture, Cambridge University Press, 1994. [All Versions]. Alison Gopnik's original paper on the theory theory.
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Tools, language and cognition in human evolution psycnet.apa.org
Cambridge University Press, 1993. [All Versions]. A classic perspective correlating human tool use with the evolution of civilization.
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Thoughts beyond words: When language overshadows insight psycnet.apa.org
Journal of Experimental Psychology, 1993. [All Versions].
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Children and adults as intuitive scientists psycnet.apa.org
Psychological Review, 1989. [All Versions]. A perspective against search as scientific thinking.
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Confirmation, disconfirmation, and information in hypothesis testing psycnet.apa.org
Psychological Review, 1987. [All Versions]. A psychological account on hypothesis testing.
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Human Problem Solving psycnet.apa.org
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-hall, 1972. [All Versions]. Herbert Simon's classic idea of human problem solving as search.
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Complexity and the representation of patterned sequences of symbols psycnet.apa.org
Psychological Review, 1972. [All Versions]. Herbert Simon's review on subjective complexity.
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Elimination by aspects: A theory of choice psycnet.apa.org
Psychological Review, 1972. [All Versions]. Herbert Simon's early experiments on computer aided behavioral studies.
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Elements of a theory of human problem solving psycnet.apa.org
Psychological Review, 1958. [All Versions]. Herbert Simon's original idea on human problem solving.
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