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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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Robotic hand augmentation drives changes in neural body representation robotics.sciencemag.org
Science Robotics, 2021. [All Versions].
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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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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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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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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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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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Causal Reasoning in Rats psych.uni-goettingen.de
Science, 2006. [All Versions]. A piece of evidence for the capability of causal reasoning in intelligent animals.
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Nonparametric Bayesian Data Analysis projecteuclid.org
Statistical Science, 2004. [All Versions]. This paper reviews the current state of nonparametric Bayesian inference. The discussion follows a list of important statistical inference problems, including density estimation, regression, survival analysis, hierarchical models and…
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Expert-level protocol translation for self-driving labs proceedings.neurips.cc
NeurIPS'24, 2024. [All Versions]. [Project]. Recent development in Artificial Intelligence (AI) models has propelled their application in scientific discovery, but the validation and exploration of these discoveries require subsequent empirical experimentation. The concept of…
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Bayesian modeling of human concept learning proceedings.neurips.cc
NeurIPS'98, 1998. [All Versions]. [Preprint]. This work considers the problem of learning concepts from small numbers of positive examples, a feat which humans perform routinely but which computers are rarely capable of. Bridging machine learning and cognitive science…
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Learning Latent Space Energy-Based Prior Model proceedings.neurips.cc
NeurIPS'20, 2020. [All Versions]. [Project]. [Code]. A milestone paper on Latent Energy-Based Model.
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Latent Space Factorisation and Manipulation via Matrix Subspace Projection proceedings.mlr.press
ICML'20, 2020. [All Versions].
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Functional neuroanatomy of intuitive physical inference pnas.org
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2016. [All Versions]. A piece of evidence for the functional part of intuitive physics in human brain.
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Finding scientific topics pnas.org
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2004. [All Versions]. A first step in identifying the content of a document is determining which topics that document addresses. This paper describes a generative model for documents, in which each document is generated by…
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Slowed Canonical Progress in Large Fields of Science pnas.org
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2021. [All Verisions]. An analysis of why too many papers published each year in a field can lead to stagnation rather than advance.
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Scaling up psychology via Scientific Regret Minimization pnas.org
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2020. [All Versions]. The statistical and ecological basis for scaling up behavioral studies.
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Meta-assessment of Bias in Science pnas.org
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2017. [All Verisions]. An analysis of bias patterns and risk factors in science.
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Simulation as an engine of physical scene understanding pnas.org
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2013. [All Versions]. [Appendix]. The first attempt to computationally simulate intuitive physics.
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Scientific Representation plato.stanford.edu
Plato Stanford. A computational philosophy account on scientific representation, focusing on how scientific models represent their target systems.
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Scientific Reduction plato.stanford.edu
Plato Stanford. A computational philosophy account on Scientific Reduction, which comes with no explicit boundary with Explanation.
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Scientific Explanation plato.stanford.edu
Plato Stanford. A computational philosophy account on Scientific Explanation, a canonical application of Abduction.
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Scientific Discovery plato.stanford.edu
Plato Stanford. A computational philosophy account on Scientific Discovery, the process or product of successful scientific inquiry, sometimes an Abduction-like (Explanation) thinking pattern.
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Levels of Analysis in Computational Social Science people.csail.mit.edu
CogSci'18, 2018. [All Versions]. A Marr's paradigm account on computational social science.
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Similarity involving attributes and relations: Judgments of similarity and difference are not inverses pcl.sitehost.iu.edu
Psychological Science, 1990. [All Versions].
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Scaling up experimental social, behavioral, and economic science osf.io
Open Science Foundation Preprints. [All Versions]. A white paper on scaling up social, behavioral, and econimic experiments.
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Learning to Perform Physics Experiments via Deep Reinforcement Learning openreview.net
ICLR'17, 2017. [All Versions].
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Hierarchically Encapsulated Representation for Protocol Design in Self-Driving Labs openreview.net
ICLR'25, 2025. [All Versions]. [Project]. Self-driving laboratories have begun to replace human experimenters in performing single experimental skills or predetermined experimental protocols. However, as the pace of idea iteration in scientific research has been intensified by…
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ImageBind: One Embedding Space To Bind Them All openaccess.thecvf.com
CVPR'23, 2023. [All Versions]. [Project]. This work presents ImageBind, an approach to learn a joint embedding across six different modalities - images, text, audio, depth, thermal, and IMU data. The authors show that all combinations of paired data are not necessary to train…
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Computational Models of Emotion Inference in Theory of Mind: A Review and Roadmap onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Topics in Cognitive Science, 2019. [All Versions]. This paper proposes an intuitive theory framework to studying affective cognition—how humans reason about emotions—and derive a taxonomy of inferences within affective cognition. Using this taxonomy, the authors review formal…
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Rational Use of Cognitive Resources: Levels of Analysis Between the Computational and the Algorithmic onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Topics in Cognitive Science, 2015. [All Versions]. An earlier version of the paper above.
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Computational Rationality: Linking Mechanism and Behavior Through Bounded Utility Maximization onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Topics in Cognitive Science, 2014. [All Versions]. Introducing the computational rationality framework for including information-processing bounds in rational analyses, which emphasizes the incorporation of computational mechanism into the definition of rational action.
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The AHA! Experience: Creativity Through Emergent Binding in Neural Networks onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Cognitive Science, 2012. [All Versions].
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Graphical Language Games: Interactional Constraints on Representational Form onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Cognitive Science, 2007. [All Versions]. The first paper introducing the graphical language game.
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What Is the Model in Model-Based Planning? onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Cognitive Science, 2021. [All Versions].
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The Interactive Evolution of Human Communication Systems onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Cognitive Science, 2010. [All Versions]. Nicolas Fay's original paper on iconicity.
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Inferring causal networks from observations and interventions onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Cognitive Science, 2010. [All Versions].
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Use of current explanations in multicausal abductive reasoning onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Cognitive Science, 2001. [All Versions].
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Representations in distributed cognitive tasks onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Cognitive Science, 1994. [All Versions].
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Dual Space Search During Scientific Reasoning onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Cognitive Science, 1988. [All Versions]. The original paper on the dual space search as scientific thinking theory.
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Learning overhypotheses with hierarchical Bayesian models onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Developmental Science, 2007. [All Versions].
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