Theory learning as stochastic search in the language of thought

We present an algorithmic model for the development of children's intuitive theories within a hierarchical Bayesian framework, where theories are described as sets of logical laws generated by a probabilistic context-free grammar. We contrast our approach with connectionist and other emergentis...

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Main Authors: Goodman, Noah D., Tenenbaum, Joshua B., Ullman, Tomer David
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Elsevier 2016
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/102507
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1925-2035
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1722-2382