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Curiosity is a vital metacognitive skill in educational contexts, leading to creativity, and a love of learning. And while many school systems increasingly undercut curiosity by teaching to the test, teachers are increasingly interested in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Tanmay Sinha , Zhen Bai , Justine Cassell

Curiosity is the strong desire to learn or know more about something or someone. Since learning is often a social endeavor, social dynamics in collaborative learning may inevitably influence curiosity. There is a scarcity of research,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2017-10-24 Tanmay Sinha , Zhen Bai , Justine Cassell

This chapter examines the relationship between curiosity and metacognition as critical drivers of autonomous and self-regulated learning. We synthesize recent research to propose a unified framework integrating behavioral, computational,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Chloé Desvaux , Rania Abdelghani , Pierre-Yves Oudeyer , Hélène Sauzéon

What are the functions of curiosity? What are the mechanisms of curiosity-driven learning? We approach these questions about the living using concepts and tools from machine learning and developmental robotics. We argue that…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-06-19 Pierre-Yves Oudeyer

Curiosity-driven learning has shown significant positive effects on students' learning experiences and outcomes. But despite this importance, reports show that children lack this skill, especially in formal educational settings. To address…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Rania Abdelghani , Edith Law , Chloé Desvaux , Pierre-Yves Oudeyer , Hélène Sauzéon

Throughout life, we might seek a calling, companions, skills, entertainment, truth, self-knowledge, beauty, and edification. The practice of curiosity can be viewed as an extended and open-ended search for valuable information with hidden…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2020-06-05 Dale Zhou , David M. Lydon-Staley , Perry Zurn , Danielle S. Bassett

Virtual companions that interact with users in a socially complex environment require a wide range of social skills. Displaying curiosity is simultaneously a factor to improve a companion's believability and to unobtrusively affect the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2014-11-27 Han Yu , Zhiqi Shen , Qiong Wu , Chunyan Miao

We hypothesize that curiosity is a mechanism found by evolution that encourages meaningful exploration early in an agent's life in order to expose it to experiences that enable it to obtain high rewards over the course of its lifetime. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-12 Ferran Alet , Martin F. Schneider , Tomas Lozano-Perez , Leslie Pack Kaelbling

Curiosity is an important factor that favors independent and individualized learning in children. Research suggests that it is also a competence that can be fostered by training specific metacognitive skills and information-searching…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-01-12 Rania Abdelghani , Pierre-Yves Oudeyer , Edith Law , Catherine de Vulpillières , Hélène Sauzéon

The human intrinsic desire to pursue knowledge, also known as curiosity, is considered essential in the process of skill acquisition. With the aid of artificial curiosity, we could equip current techniques for control, such as Reinforcement…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-24 Pietro Mazzaglia , Ozan Catal , Tim Verbelen , Bart Dhoedt

Psychological curiosity plays a significant role in human intelligence to enhance learning through exploration and information acquisition. In the Artificial Intelligence (AI) community, artificial curiosity provides a natural intrinsic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-01-21 Chenyu Sun , Hangwei Qian , Chunyan Miao

We present a rational analysis of curiosity, proposing that people's curiosity is driven by seeking stimuli that maximize their ability to make appropriate responses in the future. This perspective offers a way to unify previous theories of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Rachit Dubey , Thomas L. Griffiths

Cooperation on social networks is crucial for understanding human survival and development. Although network structure has been found to significantly influence cooperation, human experiments have observed different cooperation phenomena…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-08-25 Zhihao Hou , Zhikun She , Quanyi Liang , Qi Su , Daqing Li

Reinforcement Learning enables to train an agent via interaction with the environment. However, in the majority of real-world scenarios, the extrinsic feedback is sparse or not sufficient, thus intrinsic reward formulations are needed to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Patrik Reizinger , Márton Szemenyei

Curiosity serves as a pivotal conduit for human beings to discover and learn new knowledge. Recent advancements of large language models (LLMs) in natural language processing have sparked discussions regarding whether these models possess…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Haoyu Wang , Sihang Jiang , Yuyan Chen , Xiaojun Meng , Jiansheng Wei , Yitong Wang , Yanghua Xiao

Inspired by infants' intrinsic motivation to learn, which values informative sensory channels contingent on their immediate social environment, we developed a deep curiosity loop (DCL) architecture. The DCL is composed of a learner, which…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-06-12 Jonatan Barkan , Goren Gordon

Infants are experts at playing, with an amazing ability to generate novel structured behaviors in unstructured environments that lack clear extrinsic reward signals. We seek to replicate some of these abilities with a neural network that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-22 Nick Haber , Damian Mrowca , Li Fei-Fei , Daniel L. K. Yamins

Curiosity-based reward schemes can present powerful exploration mechanisms which facilitate the discovery of solutions for complex, sparse or long-horizon tasks. However, as the agent learns to reach previously unexplored spaces and the…

Due to the significant role that curiosity plays in our lives, several theoretical constructs, such as the information gap theory and compression progress theory, have sought to explain how we engage in its practice. According to the…

Emergent collective group processes and capabilities have been studied through analysis of transactive memory, measures of group task performance, and group intelligence, among others. In their approach to collective behaviors, these…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-01-01 Yaneer Bar-Yam , David Kantor
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