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Causal Learning by a Robot with Semantic-Episodic Memory in an Aesop's Fable Experiment
- Publication Year :
- 2020
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Abstract
- Corvids, apes, and children solve The Crow and The Pitcher task (from Aesop's Fables) indicating a causal understanding of the task. By cumulatively interacting with different objects, how can cognitive agents abstract the underlying cause-effect relations to predict affordances of novel objects? We address this question by re-enacting the Aesop's Fable task on a robot and present a) a brain-guided neural model of semantic-episodic memory; with b) four task-agnostic learning rules that compare expectations from recalled past episodes with the current scenario to progressively extract the hidden causal relations. The ensuing robot behaviours illustrate causal learning; and predictions for novel objects converge to Archimedes' principle, independent of both the objects explored during learning and the order of their cumulative exploration.<br />Comment: To appear in ICLR 2020 4 pages For associated videos, see https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIfoHEM1gr24EniCzBuUxZ2tqNpQA8QQm
- Subjects :
- Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence
Computer Science - Robotics
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- Database :
- arXiv
- Publication Type :
- Report
- Accession number :
- edsarx.2003.00274
- Document Type :
- Working Paper