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SUMMARY:(DSS Colloquium) Brenden Lake\, New York University
DESCRIPTION:Data Science & Society (DSS) Colloquium Talk with Brenden Lake\, Assistant Professor of Psychology and Data Science at New York University\, on Wednesday February 7 at 5PM in Rocky 300.   \nTitle: Addressing two classic debates in cognitive science with deep learning \nAbstract: How can advances in machine learning advance our understanding of human development? In this talk\, I’ll use deep neural networks to address two classic debates: (1) How much language is learnable from sensory input? Using head-mounted video recordings from a single child\, we show how deep neural networks can acquire many word-referent mappings\, generalize to novel visual referents\, and achieve multi-modal alignment. (2) Can neural networks capture human-like systematic generalization? We address a 35-year-old argument that neural networks are not viable cognitive models because they lack systematic compositionality—the algebraic ability to understand and produce novel combinations from known components. Neural networks can achieve human-like systematic generalization when trained through meta-learning for compositionality\, a new method for optimizing compositional skills through practice. These findings emphasize the power of neural networks and their increasing capability for addressing long standing issues in cognitive science.
URL:https://pages.vassar.edu/mathstats/event/dss-colloquium-brenden-lake-new-york-university/
LOCATION:Rockefeller Hall 300
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