Theory Acquisition as Stochastic Search

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. Our algorithm performs stochastic search at two levels of abstrac...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Ullman, Tomer David, Goodman, Noah D., Tenenbaum, Joshua B.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Cognitive Science Society, Inc. 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/71254
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1925-2035
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1722-2382