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most citedSparse Unsupervised Capsules Generalize Better

45 citations · 58 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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10 papers

cs.LG2026

Active perception and disentangled representations allow continual, episodic zero and few-shot learning

David Rawlinson, Gideon Kowadlo

Generalization is often regarded as an essential property of machine learning systems. However, perhaps not every component of a system needs to generalize. Training models for gen…

cs.AI2025

HRM-Agent: Training a recurrent reasoning model in dynamic environments using reinforcement learning

Long H Dang, David Rawlinson

The Hierarchical Reasoning Model (HRM) has impressive reasoning abilities given its small size, but has only been applied to supervised, static, fully-observable problems. One of H…

cs.NE2022

Expanding continual few-shot learning benchmarks to include recognition of specific instances

Gideon Kowadlo, Abdelrahman Ahmed, Amir Mayan +1

Continual learning and few-shot learning are important frontiers in progress toward broader Machine Learning (ML) capabilities. Recently, there has been intense interest in combini…

q-bio.NC2022★ 5 cited

Deep learning in a bilateral brain with hemispheric specialization

Chandramouli Rajagopalan, David Rawlinson, Elkhonon Goldberg +1

The brains of all bilaterally symmetric animals on Earth are divided into left and right hemispheres. The anatomy and functionality of the hemispheres have a large degree of overla…

cs.LG2021

One-shot learning for the long term: consolidation with an artificial hippocampal algorithm

Gideon Kowadlo, Abdelrahman Ahmed, David Rawlinson

Standard few-shot experiments involve learning to efficiently match previously unseen samples by class. We claim that few-shot learning should be long term, assimilating knowledge…

cs.LG2020

Unsupervised One-shot Learning of Both Specific Instances and Generalised Classes with a Hippocampal Architecture

Gideon Kowadlo, Abdelrahman Ahmed, David Rawlinson

Established experimental procedures for one-shot machine learning do not test the ability to learn or remember specific instances of classes, a key feature of animal intelligence.…

cs.LG2019

Long Distance Relationships without Time Travel: Boosting the Performance of a Sparse Predictive Autoencoder in Sequence Modeling

Jeremy Gordon, David Rawlinson, Subutai Ahmad

In sequence learning tasks such as language modelling, Recurrent Neural Networks must learn relationships between input features separated by time. State of the art models such as…

cs.NE2019★ 8 cited

AHA! an 'Artificial Hippocampal Algorithm' for Episodic Machine Learning

Gideon Kowadlo, Abdelrahman Ahmed, David Rawlinson

The majority of ML research concerns slow, statistical learning of i.i.d. samples from large, labelled datasets. Animals do not learn this way. An enviable characteristic of animal…

stat.ML2019

Learning distant cause and effect using only local and immediate credit assignment

David Rawlinson, Abdelrahman Ahmed, Gideon Kowadlo

We present a recurrent neural network memory that uses sparse coding to create a combinatoric encoding of sequential inputs. Using several examples, we show that the network can as…

cs.CV2018★ 45 cited

Sparse Unsupervised Capsules Generalize Better

David Rawlinson, Abdelrahman Ahmed, Gideon Kowadlo

We show that unsupervised training of latent capsule layers using only the reconstruction loss, without masking to select the correct output class, causes a loss of equivariances a…