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Large repositories of products, patents and scientific papers offer an opportunity for building systems that scour millions of ideas and help users discover inspirations. However, idea descriptions are typically in the form of unstructured…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-02-18 Tom Hope , Ronen Tamari , Hyeonsu Kang , Daniel Hershcovich , Joel Chan , Aniket Kittur , Dafna Shahaf

We identify a distinct motive for search, termed catalytic exploration, where agents rationally explore alternatives they expect to reject to resolve uncertainty about the status quo. By decomposing option value into switching and catalytic…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2025-11-25 Zeyu He

In this paper we introduce paraglide, a visualization system designed for interactive exploration of parameter spaces of multi-variate simulation models. To get the right parameter configuration, model developers frequently have to go back…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2011-10-25 Steven Bergner , Michael Sedlmair , Sareh Nabi , Ahmed Saad , Torsten Möller

We attempt to automate various artistic processes by inventing a set of drawing games, analogous to the approach taken by emergent language research in inventing communication games. A critical difference is that drawing games demand much…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-12-11 Chrisantha Fernando , Daria Zenkova , Stanislav Nikolov , Simon Osindero

Through-out human history the new generations have sought to create their own artistic style while trying to avoid repeating, for example, earlier generations' music. If we assume that this search occurs in a multi-dimensional but confined…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2022-04-25 Anders Levermann

Creative ideation relies on exploring diverse stimuli, but the overwhelming abundance of information often makes it difficult to identify valuable insights or reach the `aha' moment. Traditional methods for accessing design stimuli lack…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Yaqing Yang , Vikram Mohanty , Nikolas Martelaro , Aniket Kittur , Yan-Ying Chen , Matthew K. Hong

Designing protocols enhancing cooperation for multi-agent systems remains a grand challenge. Cheap talk, defined as costless, non-binding communication before formal action, serves as a pivotal solution. However, existing theoretical…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Zhao Song , Chen Shen , Zhen Wang , The Anh Han

Attribution methods, which employ heatmaps to identify the most influential regions of an image that impact model decisions, have gained widespread popularity as a type of explainability method. However, recent research has exposed the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Thomas Fel , Agustin Picard , Louis Bethune , Thibaut Boissin , David Vigouroux , Julien Colin , Rémi Cadène , Thomas Serre

The human ability to learn rules and solve problems has been a central concern of cognitive science research since the field's earliest days. But we do not just follow rules and solve problems given to us by others: we modify those rules,…

Foraging is a fundamental behavior as animals' search for food is crucial for their survival. Patch leaving is a canonical foraging behavior, but classic theoretical conceptions of patch leaving decisions lack some key naturalistic details.…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2020-04-23 Zachary P Kilpatrick , Jacob D Davidson , Ahmed El Hady

Foraging is a crucial activity, yet the extent to which humans employ flexible versus rigid strategies remains unclear. This study investigates how individuals adapt their foraging strategies in response to resource distribution and…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-05-13 Valeria Simonelli , Davide Nuzzi , Gian Luca Lancia , Giovanni Pezzulo

Numerous past works have tackled the problem of task-driven navigation. But, how to effectively explore a new environment to enable a variety of down-stream tasks has received much less attention. In this work, we study how agents can…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-03-06 Tao Chen , Saurabh Gupta , Abhinav Gupta

Partial classification popularly known as nugget discovery comes under descriptive knowledge discovery. It involves mining rules for a target class of interest. Classification "If-Then" rules are the most sought out by decision makers since…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2012-07-12 Sujatha Srinivasan , Sivakumar Ramakrishnan

Automated game design is the problem of automatically producing games through computational processes. Traditionally, these methods have relied on the authoring of search spaces by a designer, defining the space of all possible games for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-02-22 Matthew Guzdial , Mark Riedl

Exploring an unknown environment without colliding with obstacles is one of the essentials of autonomous vehicles to perform diverse missions such as structural inspections, rescues, deliveries, and so forth. Therefore, unmanned aerial…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-06 Eungchang Mason Lee , Junho Choi , Hyungtae Lim , Hyun Myung

We consider the problem of designing a set of computational agents so that as they all pursue their self-interests a global function G of the collective system is optimized. Three factors govern the quality of such design. The first relates…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2009-11-10 David Wolpert , Kagan Tumer , Esfandiar Bandari

How to best exploit patchy resources? This long-standing question belongs to the extensively studied class of explore/exploit problems that arise in a wide range of situations, from animal foraging, to robotic exploration, and to human…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2017-01-31 M. Chupeau , O. Benichou , S. Redner

The research on the brain mechanism of creativity mainly has two aspects, one is the creative thinking process, and the other is the brain structure and functional connection characteristics of highly creative people. The billions of nerve…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2022-08-23 Tong Wang

A key component of creativity is associative reasoning: the ability to draw novel yet meaningful connections between concepts. We introduce CREATE, a benchmark designed to evaluate models' capacity for creative associative reasoning. CREATE…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Manya Wadhwa , Tiasa Singha Roy , Harvey Lederman , Junyi Jessy Li , Greg Durrett

In this work, we fully define the existing relationships between traditional optimality criteria and the connectivity of the underlying pose-graph in Active SLAM, characterizing, therefore, the connection between Graph Theory and the Theory…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-04-25 Julio A. Placed , José A. Castellanos