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Abstraction is the process of extracting the essential features from raw data while ignoring irrelevant details. It is well known that abstraction emerges with depth in neural networks, where deep layers capture abstract characteristics of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Carlo Orientale Caputo , Elias Seiffert , Enrico Frausin , Matteo Marsili

While the difficulty of reinforcement learning problems is typically related to the complexity of their state spaces, Abstraction proposes that solutions often lie in simpler underlying latent spaces. Prior works have focused on learning…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Amnon Attali , Pedro Cisneros-Velarde , Marco Morales , Nancy M. Amato

Neural systems are well known for their ability to learn and store information as memories. Even more impressive is their ability to abstract these memories to create complex internal representations, enabling advanced functions such as the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Lindsay M. Smith , Jason Z. Kim , Zhixin Lu , Dani S. Bassett

ASP programs are a convenient tool for problem solving, whereas with large problem instances the size of the state space can be prohibitive. We consider abstraction as a means of over-approximation and introduce a method to automatically…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-09-19 Zeynep G. Saribatur , Thomas Eiter

Many complex networks depend upon biological entities for their preservation. Such entities, from human cognition to evolution, must first encode and then replicate those networks under marked resource constraints. Networks that survive are…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-03-02 Christopher W. Lynn , Danielle S. Bassett

Abstraction ability is crucial in human intelligence, which can also benefit various tasks in NLP study. Existing work shows that LLMs are deficient in abstract ability, and how to improve it remains unexplored. In this work, we design the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Zhaowei Wang , Wei Fan , Qing Zong , Hongming Zhang , Sehyun Choi , Tianqing Fang , Xin Liu , Yangqiu Song , Ginny Y. Wong , Simon See

Abstraction reasoning is a long-standing challenge in artificial intelligence. Recent studies suggest that many of the deep architectures that have triumphed over other domains failed to work well in abstract reasoning. In this paper, we…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Kecheng Zheng , Zheng-jun Zha , Wei Wei

Biological information processing manifests a huge variety in its complexity and capability among different organisms, which presumably stems from the evolutionary optimization under limited computational resources. Starting from the…

Biological Physics · Physics 2025-10-21 Takehiro Tottori , Tetsuya J. Kobayashi

The field of quantum computing is at an exciting time where we are constructing novel hardware, evaluating algorithms, and finding out what works best. As qubit technology grows and matures, we need to be ready to design and program larger…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-07 Casey Duckering

Organisms have to keep track of the information in the environment that is relevant for adaptive behaviour. Transmitting information in an economical and efficient way becomes crucial for limited-resourced agents living in high-dimensional…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Miguel de Llanza Varona , Christopher L. Buckley , Beren Millidge

There is a consensus that human and non-human subjects experience temporal distortions in many stages of their perceptual and decision-making systems. Similarly, intertemporal choice research has shown that decision-makers undervalue future…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2016-05-31 Pedro A. Ortega , Naftali Tishby

Animals survive in dynamic environments changing at arbitrary timescales, but such data distribution shifts are a challenge to neural networks. To adapt to change, neural systems may change a large number of parameters, which is a slow…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Kai Sandbrink , Jan P. Bauer , Alexandra M. Proca , Andrew M. Saxe , Christopher Summerfield , Ali Hummos

The field of artificial intelligence (AI) represents an enormous endeavour of humankind that is currently transforming our societies down to their very foundations. Its task, building truly intelligent systems, is underpinned by a vast…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-07-25 Alexander Serb , Themistoklis Prodromakis

Humans and animals have the ability to reason and make predictions about different courses of action at many time scales. In reinforcement learning, option models (Sutton, Precup \& Singh, 1999; Precup, 2000) provide the framework for this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-09 Khimya Khetarpal , Zafarali Ahmed , Gheorghe Comanici , Doina Precup

A foundational principle in cognitive science holds that intelligent agents do not learn by storing experiences as isolated instances, but by forming abstract schemas that capture relational structure shared across situations. Even though…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Elnaz Rahmati , Nona Ghazizadeh , Zhivar Sourati , Nina Rouhani , Morteza Dehghani

Learning from demonstrations is a common way for users to teach robots, but it is prone to spurious feature correlations. Recent work constructs state abstractions, i.e. visual representations containing task-relevant features, from…

Learning abstractions directly from data is a core challenge in robotics. Humans naturally operate at an abstract level, reasoning over high-level subgoals while delegating execution to low-level motor skills -- an ability that enables…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Abhiroop Ajith , Constantinos Chamzas

In this paper the theory of semi-bounded rationality is proposed as an extension of the theory of bounded rationality. In particular, it is proposed that a decision making process involves two components and these are the correlation…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-05-28 Tshilidzi Marwala

Reasoning requires going beyond pattern matching or memorization of solutions to identify and implement "algorithmic procedures" that can be used to deduce answers to hard problems. Doing so requires realizing the most relevant primitives,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Yuxiao Qu , Anikait Singh , Yoonho Lee , Amrith Setlur , Ruslan Salakhutdinov , Chelsea Finn , Aviral Kumar

Can there be independent higher level laws of nature if everything is reducible to the fundamental laws of physics? The computer science notion of level of abstraction explains why there can -- illustrating how computational thinking can…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2008-05-24 Russ Abbott