The next VSAonline webinar is at 17:00 UTC (not the usual time), Monday 27 January.

Zoom: https://ltu-se.zoom.us/j/65564790287

WEB: https://bit.ly/vsaonline

Speaker: Anthony Thomas from UC Davis, USA

Title: ”Sketching a Picture of Vector Symbolic Architectures”

Abstract : Sketching algorithms are a broad area of research in theoretical computer science and numerical analysis that aim to distil data into a simple summary, called a "sketch," that retains some essential notion of structure while being much more efficient to store, query, and transmit.

Vector-symbolic architectures (VSAs) are an approach to computing on data represented using random vectors, and provide an elegant conceptual framework for realizing a wide variety of data structures and algorithms in a way that lends itself to implementation in highly-parallel and energy-efficient computer hardware.

Sketching algorithms and VSA have a substantial degree of consonance in their methods, motivations, and applications. In this tutorial style talk, I will discuss some of the connections between these two fields, focusing, in particular, on the connections between VSA and tensor-sketches, a family of sketching algorithms concerned with the setting in which the data being sketched can be decomposed into Kronecker (tensor) products between more primitive objects. This is exactly the situation of interest in VSA and the two fields have arrived at strikingly similar solutions to this problem.

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I was looking through the VSAonline website (https://sites.google.com/view/hdvsaonline/home) and saw that by the end of this year there will be 96 recorded webinars plus the recordings from the Midnight Sun 2023 workshop.

So, if you're interested in #VectorSymbolicArchitecture / #HyperdimensionalComputing or just #VSA / #HDC -curious, the VSAonline website is the place to go (or head over to https://www.hd-computing.com/home, where there's a wider range of resources, including publication lists).

#CognitiveScience #CogSci #ComputationalCognitiveScience #CompCogSci #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #ML #MachineLearning #neuromorphic #ComputationalNeuroscience

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If you want to give a credit to this webinar series use the following entry when citing (BibTeX). Vector Symbolic Architectures (VSA), which is also known as hyperdimensional computing (HDC) is a subclass of cognitive computing architectures, which is rooted in the observation that key aspects of

I would greatly appreciate any recommendations for #OpenAccess #ScholComm journals to publish some research:

Subject: Artificial Intelligence (very broadly interpreted)

Acceptance criteria: Peer reviewed

Publication model: Diamond/Platinum open access - free to read and free to publish

Licensing: Something unrestrictive, like CC-BY and author retains all rights

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #CompCogSci #ComputationalCognitiveScience @cogsci @academicchatter

New preprint:
“Algebras of actions in an agent’s representations of the world”

https://scholar.social/@E_Mondragon/111177742052625126

#CogSci #CompCogSci #MathPsych #preprint #NewPaper

Esther Mondragón (@E_Mondragon@scholar.social)

New preprint! “Algebras of actions in an agent’s representations of the world” with Alex Dean (first author) and Eduardo Alonso https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.01536. The paper (1) proposes a framework for deriving the algebras of the transformation of worlds due to the actions of an agent, (2) derives symmetry-based disentangled representations (Higgins et al., 2018) using our framework, (3) proposes the algebras of the transformations of worlds using our framework,

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Thanks @hosford42 for reminding me of this half-day tutorial on Vector Symbolic Architectures / Hyperdimensional Computing. The authors have been applying HDC/VSA to place recognition in robotics, but the tutorial coverage is much wider.

https://www.tu-chemnitz.de/etit/proaut/workshops_tutorials/hdc_ki19/index.html

#VSA #VectorSymbolicArchitecture #HDC #HyperdimensionalComputing #CogRob #CognitiveRobotics #CompCogSci #ComputationalCognitiveScience #CogSci #CognitiveScience #MathPsych #MathematicalPsychology

HDC Tutorial

Help from older folk please: In the earlier days of artificial intelligence (GOFAI) - say, the 1980s - there was an aphorism to the effect that once you had found the right data representation for your problem you had pretty much solved your problem (i.e. choice of representation dominates choice of algorithm).

I would greatly appreciate (some approximation to) the actual text of the aphorism and, if possible, some citation to its origin.

Thanks!

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #GOFAI #GoodOldFashionedAI #aphorisms #sayings #CogSci #CognitiveScience #CompCogSci #ComputationalCognitiveScience

A New Approach to Computation Reimagines Artificial Intelligence | Quanta Magazine

By imbuing enormous vectors with semantic meaning, we can get machines to reason more abstractly — and efficiently — than before.

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A New Approach to Computation Reimagines Artificial Intelligence | Quanta Magazine

By imbuing enormous vectors with semantic meaning, we can get machines to reason more abstractly — and efficiently — than before.

Quanta Magazine

RT @ZennaTavares@twitter.com

Introducing AutumnSynth, a step toward automating scientific discovery through program synthesis.

AutumnSynth synthesizes the source code of a video game from seconds of play.

paper: https://basis.ai/publications/autumn_popl23.pdf

Blog: https://basis.ai/blog/autumn/

Why do this? How does it work?
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Mark Ho does very exciting work and is recruiting PhD students for this Fall

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Excited to share that Fall 2023, I'm starting a lab in the CS department @FollowStevens !

Even MORE excited to share that I'm recruiting Ph.D. students interested in computational Cog Sci, RL, and/or HCI 🧠💭🤖!

The official deadline is *Feb 1st*...

🦃🧵 https://twitter.com/mark_ho_/status/1613212308527890433

#cogsci #compcogsci #hci @cogsci

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“Excited to share that Fall 2023, I'm starting a lab in the CS department @FollowStevens! Even MORE excited to share that I'm recruiting Ph.D. students interested in computational Cog Sci, RL, and/or HCI 🧠💭🤖! The official deadline is *Feb 1st*...”

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