Publications (9)
Predictability-Based Curiosity-Guided Action Symbol Discovery
Burcu Kilic, Alper Ahmetoglu, Emre Ugur
Discovering symbolic representations for skills is essential for abstract reasoning and efficient planning in robotics. Previous neuro-symbolic robotic studies mostly focused on di…
Learning Multi-Object Symbols for Manipulation with Attentive Deep Effect Predictors
Alper Ahmetoglu, Erhan Oztop, Emre Ugur
In this paper, we propose a concept learning architecture that enables a robot to build symbols through self-exploration by interacting with a varying number of objects. Our aim is…
Symbolic Manipulation Planning with Discovered Object and Relational Predicates
Alper Ahmetoglu, Erhan Oztop, Emre Ugur
Discovering the symbols and rules that can be used in long-horizon planning from a robot's unsupervised exploration of its environment and continuous sensorimotor experience is a c…
Discovering Predictive Relational Object Symbols with Symbolic Attentive Layers
Alper Ahmetoglu, Batuhan Celik, Erhan Oztop +1
In this paper, we propose and realize a new deep learning architecture for discovering symbolic representations for objects and their relations based on the self-supervised continu…
High-level Features for Resource Economy and Fast Learning in Skill Transfer
Alper Ahmetoglu, Emre Ugur, Minoru Asada +1
Abstraction is an important aspect of intelligence which enables agents to construct robust representations for effective decision making. In the last decade, deep networks are pro…
DeepSym: Deep Symbol Generation and Rule Learning from Unsupervised Continuous Robot Interaction for Planning
Alper Ahmetoglu, M. Yunus Seker, Justus Piater +2
We propose a novel general method that finds action-grounded, discrete object and effect categories and builds probabilistic rules over them for non-trivial action planning. Our ro…
Creative Robot Tool Use by Counterfactual Reasoning
M. Tuluhan Akbulut, Varun Satheesh, Ahmed Jaafar +5
We propose a causal reasoning framework for creative robot tool use where a suitable tool for a task is correctly identified for use beyond its primary objectives. The proposed fra…
Graph2Pix: A Graph-Based Image to Image Translation Framework
Dilara Gokay, Enis Simsar, Efehan Atici +3
In this paper, we propose a graph-based image-to-image translation framework for generating images. We use rich data collected from the popular creativity platform Artbreeder (http…
Developmental Scaffolding with Large Language Models
Batuhan Celik, Alper Ahmetoglu, Emre Ugur +1
Exploratoration and self-observation are key mechanisms of infant sensorimotor development. These processes are further guided by parental scaffolding accelerating skill and knowle…