2006 NIPS NeurIPS 2006

Combining causal and similarity-based reasoning

Abstract

Everyday inductive reasoning draws on many kinds of knowledge, including knowledge about relationships between properties and knowledge about relationships between objects. Previous accounts of inductive reasoning generally focus on just one kind of knowledge: models of causal reasoning often focus on relationships between properties, and models of similarity-based reasoning often focus on similarity relationships between objects. We present a Bayesian model of inductive reasoning that incorporates both kinds of knowledge, and show that it accounts well for human inferences about the properties of biological species.

🚀 Conference Pioneer — NIPS 2006
🌱 Topic Pioneer — Causal Inference
🌉 Interdisciplinary Bridge — Artificial Intelligence and Knowledge & Reasoning
📈 Trend Setter — Causal Inference
🧭 Keyword Pioneer — causal reasoning
🐝 Cross-Pollinator — Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision, Data Science & Analytics, Deep Learning, Healthcare & Medicine, Interdisciplinary, Knowledge & Reasoning, Machine Learning, Mathematics & Optimization, Natural Language Processing, Reinforcement Learning
🐣 Hot Topic Early Bird — probabilistic modeling