🚨New preprint with Fei Dai, @hanqizhou.bsky.social and @alisongopnik.bsky.social We extend empowerment (control over external states) by turning it inward. *Representational empowerment* asks which representations a learner should acquire and curate to solve future problems ar…
What Is Worth Representing? Representational Empowerment for Continual Model Construction arxiv.org
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- A new paper proposes Representational Empowerment (RepEmp), scoring candidate representational elements by how much they expand an agent's future capacity to model and plan.
- In a closed-vocabulary causal-learning task, human participants built causal models to maximize goal reachability rather than fidelity to the world.
- An LLM-augmented Curator using RepEmp built more compact symbolic libraries that generalized better than baselines; ablating RepEmp eliminated the gains.
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Some of the first work related to my ERC is now available as a preprint 👉 arxiv.org/pdf/2606.20623 We model the learning of real-world melodies as resource-constrained inference over generative programs, with new implications for Rate-distortion theory: learning changes what i…
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For "Science against Fascism" week @wigefa.bsky.social I'll be giving a lecture @tuda.bsky.social (& on zoom) about the unique role of Cognitive Science in guiding the future of AI away from fascism and towards empowering democracy wissenschaft-gegen-faschismus.de/index.php/ev...
Science against Fascism in the Age of AI – Wissenschaft gegen Faschismus wissenschaft-gegen-faschismus.de