3 papers
cs.AI2025
Plasticity as the Mirror of Empowerment
David Abel, Michael Bowling, André Barreto +13
Agents are minimally entities that are influenced by their past observations and act to influence future observations. This latter capacity is captured by empowerment, which has se…
stat.ML2025
DataRater: Meta-Learned Dataset Curation
Dan A. Calian, Gregory Farquhar, Iurii Kemaev +9
The quality of foundation models depends heavily on their training data. Consequently, great efforts have been put into dataset curation. Yet most approaches rely on manual tuning…
cs.AI2025
Agency Is Frame-Dependent
David Abel, André Barreto, Michael Bowling +13
Agency is a system's capacity to steer outcomes toward a goal, and is a central topic of study across biology, philosophy, cognitive science, and artificial intelligence. Determini…