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EMPIRIC: Experiment-Driven Learning of Residual World Models for Robot Planning
Yichao Liang, Amber Li, Dat Nguyen +13
A robot should be able to learn through experiments how unfamiliar objects behave and interact, then plan with that knowledge. It need not start from scratch: physics engines suppl…
Medical Model Synthesis Architectures: A Case Study
Katherine M. Collins, Marlene Berke, Ilia Sucholutsky +6
Medicine is rife with high-stakes uncertainty. Doctors routinely make clinical judgments and decisions that juggle many fundamental unknowns, like predictions about what might be c…
A Matter of Interest: Understanding Interestingness of Math Problems in Humans and Language Models
Shubhra Mishra, Yuka Machino, Gabriel Poesia +9
The evolution of mathematics is shaped importantly by interestingness: researchers choose which problems to pursue, and students choose which problems to engage with, based on expe…
People use fast and flat simulation to reason about new games
Katherine M. Collins, Cedegao E. Zhang, Lionel Wong +6
Games have long been a microcosm for studying planning and reasoning in both natural and artificial intelligence (AI), often focusing on expert-level or even super-human play. But…
Evaluating Language Models' Evaluations of Games
Katherine M. Collins, Cedegao E. Zhang, Graham Todd +9
Reasoning is not just about solving problems -- it is also about evaluating which problems are worth solving at all. Evaluations of artificial intelligence (AI) systems primarily f…
ExoPredicator: Learning Abstract Models of Dynamic Worlds for Robot Planning
Yichao Liang, Dat Nguyen, Cambridge Yang +7
Long-horizon embodied planning is challenging because the world does not only change through an agent's actions: exogenous processes (e.g., water heating, dominoes cascading) unfol…
Generation and Evaluation in the Human Invention Process through the Lens of Game Design
Katherine M. Collins, Graham Todd, Cedegao E. Zhang +6
The human ability to learn rules and solve problems has been a central concern of cognitive science research since the field's earliest days. But we do not just follow rules and so…
Assessing Adaptive World Models in Machines with Novel Games
Lance Ying, Katherine M. Collins, Prafull Sharma +11
Human intelligence exhibits a remarkable capacity for rapid adaptation and effective problem-solving in novel and unfamiliar contexts. We argue that this profound adaptability is f…
Modeling Open-World Cognition as On-Demand Synthesis of Probabilistic Models
Lionel Wong, Katherine M. Collins, Lance Ying +8
When faced with novel situations, people are able to marshal relevant considerations from a wide range of background knowledge and put these to use in inferences and predictions. W…
Empathy in Explanation
Katherine M. Collins, Kartik Chandra, Adrian Weller +2
Why do we give the explanations we do? Recent work has suggested that we should think of explanation as a kind of cooperative social interaction, between a why-question-asker and a…
Identifying, Evaluating, and Mitigating Risks of AI Thought Partnerships
Kerem Oktar, Katherine M. Collins, Jose Hernandez-Orallo +4
Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems have historically been used as tools that execute narrowly defined tasks. Yet recent advances in AI have unlocked possibilities for a new class…
PoE-World: Compositional World Modeling with Products of Programmatic Experts
Wasu Top Piriyakulkij, Yichao Liang, Hao Tang +3
Learning how the world works is central to building AI agents that can adapt to complex environments. Traditional world models based on deep learning demand vast amounts of trainin…
On Benchmarking Human-Like Intelligence in Machines
Lance Ying, Katherine M. Collins, Lionel Wong +6
Recent advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) have yielded powerful computational models that, by learning from vast amounts of human-generated data, are increasingly posited as…
Data for Mathematical Copilots: Better Ways of Presenting Proofs for Machine Learning
Simon Frieder, Jonas Bayer, Sam Looi +13
The datasets and benchmarks commonly used to train and evaluate the mathematical capabilities of AI-based mathematical copilots (primarily large language models) exhibit several sh…
Gridded Transformer Neural Processes for Large Unstructured Spatio-Temporal Data
Matthew Ashman, Cristiana Diaconu, Eric Langezaal +2
Many important problems require modelling large-scale spatio-temporal datasets, with one prevalent example being weather forecasting. Recently, transformer-based approaches have sh…
VisualPredicator: Learning Abstract World Models with Neuro-Symbolic Predicates for Robot Planning
Yichao Liang, Nishanth Kumar, Hao Tang +5
Broadly intelligent agents should form task-specific abstractions that selectively expose the essential elements of a task, while abstracting away the complexity of the raw sensori…
People use fast, goal-directed simulation to reason about novel games
Cedegao E. Zhang, Katherine M. Collins, Lionel Wong +3
People can evaluate features of problems and their potential solutions well before we can effectively solve them. When considering a game we have never played, for instance, we mig…
In-Context In-Context Learning with Transformer Neural Processes
Matthew Ashman, Cristiana Diaconu, Adrian Weller +1
Neural processes (NPs) are a powerful family of meta-learning models that seek to approximate the posterior predictive map of the ground-truth stochastic process from which each da…
Beyond Thumbs Up/Down: Untangling Challenges of Fine-Grained Feedback for Text-to-Image Generation
Katherine M. Collins, Najoung Kim, Yonatan Bitton +15
Human feedback plays a critical role in learning and refining reward models for text-to-image generation, but the optimal form the feedback should take for learning an accurate rew…
Approximately Equivariant Neural Processes
Matthew Ashman, Cristiana Diaconu, Adrian Weller +2
Equivariant deep learning architectures exploit symmetries in learning problems to improve the sample efficiency of neural-network-based models and their ability to generalise. How…
WatChat: Explaining perplexing programs by debugging mental models
Kartik Chandra, Katherine M. Collins, Will Crichton +6
Often, a good explanation for a program's unexpected behavior is a bug in the programmer's code. But sometimes, an even better explanation is a bug in the programmer's mental model…
Amortised Inference in Neural Networks for Small-Scale Probabilistic Meta-Learning
Matthew Ashman, Tommy Rochussen, Adrian Weller
The global inducing point variational approximation for BNNs is based on using a set of inducing inputs to construct a series of conditional distributions that accurately approxima…
AI for Mathematics: A Cognitive Science Perspective
Cedegao E. Zhang, Katherine M. Collins, Adrian Weller +1
Mathematics is one of the most powerful conceptual systems developed and used by the human species. Dreams of automated mathematicians have a storied history in artificial intellig…
Getting aligned on representational alignment
Ilia Sucholutsky, Lukas Muttenthaler, Adrian Weller +30
Biological and artificial information processing systems form representations of the world that they can use to categorize, reason, plan, navigate, and make decisions. How can we m…