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    "pk": 28132,
    "title": "Learning list concepts through program induction",
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    "abstract": "Humans master complex systems of interrelated concepts likemathematics and natural language. Previous work suggestslearning these systems relies on iteratively and directly re-vising a language-like conceptual representation. We intro-duce and assess a novel concept learning paradigm calledMartha’s Magical Machines that captures complex relation-ships between concepts. We model human concept learning inthis paradigm as a search in the space of term rewriting sys-tems, previously developed as an abstract model of compu-tation. Our model accurately predicts that participants learnsome transformations more easily than others and that theylearn harder concepts more easily using a bootstrapping cur-riculum focused on their compositional parts. Our results sug-gest that term rewriting systems may be a useful model of hu-man conceptual representations.",
    "language": "eng",
    "license": {
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    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Concept learning; Program Induction; Induction;Function learning; Curriculum learning; Bootstrap learning"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Publication-based-Talks",
    "is_remote": true,
    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/51s4q6f5",
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        {
            "first_name": "Joshua",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Rule",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "MIT",
            "department": ""
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        {
            "first_name": "Eric",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Schulz",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Harvard",
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        },
        {
            "first_name": "Steven",
            "middle_name": "T",
            "last_name": "Piantadosi",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Rochester",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Joshua",
            "middle_name": "B",
            "last_name": "Tenenbaum",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "MIT",
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        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2018-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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