ABCDE: An Agent-Based Cognitive Development Environment
Abstract
Children's cognitive abilities are sometimes cited as AI benchmarks. How can the most common 1,000 concepts (89\% of everyday use) be learnt in a naturalistic children's setting? Cognitive development in children is about quality, and new concepts can be conveyed via simple examples. Our approach of knowledge scaffolding uses simple objects and actions to convey concepts, like how children are taught. We introduce ABCDE, an interactive 3D environment modeled after a typical playroom for children. It comes with 300+ unique 3D object assets (mostly toys), and a large action space for child and parent agents to interact with objects and each other. ABCDE is the first environment aimed at mimicking a naturalistic setting for cognitive development in children; no other environment focuses on high-level concept learning through learner-teacher interactions. The simulator can be found at https://pypi.org/project/ABCDESim/1.0.0/
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@article{arxiv.2206.04909,
title = {ABCDE: An Agent-Based Cognitive Development Environment},
author = {Jieyi Ye and Jiafei Duan and Samson Yu and Bihan Wen and Cheston Tan},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2206.04909},
year = {2022}
}
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Accepted to CVPRW 2022,Embodied AI Workshop (Extended Abstract)