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Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences (BCS)
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Toward Building Machines that Learn Generalizable, Interpretable Knowledge

Speaker(s)
Kevin Ellis (Tenenbaum Lab and Solar-Lezama Lab)
Add to CalendarAmerica/New_YorkToward Building Machines that Learn Generalizable, Interpretable Knowledge02/04/2020 5:00 pm02/04/2020 6:00 pm46-3189 | MIBR Seminar Room
February 4, 2020
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Location
46-3189 | MIBR Seminar Room
Contact
Halie Olson
    Description

    Humans can learn to solve a seemingly endless range of problems: building, design, coding, and using language, to name a few. Humans can learn to do all this from a relatively modest amount of experience, can creatively compose what they learn to extrapolate beyond their direct experience, and can communicate their knowledge in ways that other humans can comprehend and contribute to. Machines which are intelligent along all these dimensions are surely very far off. Here, however, I will argue that an AI technique, program induction, will play a role in building these more human-like AIs. Across case studies in vision, phonology, and learning-to-learn, this talk will present program induction systems that take a small step toward machines that can: acquire new knowledge from modest amounts of experience; generalize that knowledge to extrapolate beyond their training; represent their knowledge in an interpretable format; and are applicable to a broad span of problems, from picture drawing to equation discovery. These systems integrate symbolic, probabilistic, and neural network approaches, alongside techniques drawn from the program synthesis community.

    Speaker Bio

    Kevin Ellis is a 6th-year graduate student advised by Josh Tenenbaum and Armando Solar-Lezama.

    Additional Info

    Upcoming Cog Lunches:

    • Tuesday, February 11, 2020 - Richard McWalter (McDermott Lab)
    • Tuesday, February 25, 2020 - Dana Boebinger (Kanwisher Lab & McDermott Lab)
    • Tuesday, March 3, 2020 - Ethan Wilcox (Levy Lab)
    • Tuesday, March 10, 2020 - Maddie Pelz (Schulz Lab)
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    • Tuesday, April 7, 2020 - Ashley Thomas (Saxe Lab)
    • Tuesday, April 14, 2020 - Marta Kryven (Tenenbaum Lab)
    • Tuesday, April 21, 2020 - Andrew Francl (McDermott Lab)
    • Tuesday, April 28, 2020 - Andrew Bahle (Fee Lab)
    • Tuesday, May 5, 2020 - Mahdi Ramadan (Jazayeri Lab)
    • Tuesday, May 12, 2020 - Mika Braginsky (Ted Lab)

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