Title
Relational inductive bias for physical construction in humans and machines.
Abstract
While current deep learning systems excel at tasks such as object classification, language processing, and gameplay, few can construct or modify a complex system such as a tower of blocks. We hypothesize that what these systems lack is a "relational inductive bias": a capacity for reasoning about inter-object relations and making choices over a structured description of a scene. To test this hypothesis, we focus on a task that involves gluing pairs of blocks together to stabilize a tower, and quantify how well humans perform. We then introduce a deep reinforcement learning agent which uses object- and relation-centric scene and policy representations and apply it to the task. Our results show that these structured representations allow the agent to outperform both humans and more naive approaches, suggesting that relational inductive bias is an important component in solving structured reasoning problems and for building more intelligent, flexible machines.
Year
Venue
Field
2018
CogSci
Inductive bias,Tower,Artificial intelligence,Deep learning,Machine learning,Mathematics,Reinforcement learning
DocType
Volume
Citations 
Journal
abs/1806.01203
7
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.42
21
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jessica B. Hamrick1669.25
Kelsey Allen21027.30
Victor Bapst31435.38
Tina Zhu4131.56
Kevin R. McKee5133.59
Joshua B. Tenenbaum64445437.33
Peter Battaglia744222.63