2015 NIPS NeurIPS 2015

Unsupervised Learning by Program Synthesis

Abstract

We introduce an unsupervised learning algorithmthat combines probabilistic modeling with solver-based techniques for program synthesis.We apply our techniques to both a visual learning domain and a language learning problem,showing that our algorithm can learn many visual concepts from only a few examplesand that it can recover some English inflectional morphology.Taken together, these results give both a new approach to unsupervised learning of symbolic compositional structures,and a technique for applying program synthesis tools to noisy data.

🌉 Interdisciplinary Bridge — Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning and Machine Learning
📈 Trend Setter — Unsupervised Learning
🧭 Keyword Pioneer — visual learning
🐣 Hot Topic Early Bird — probabilistic modeling
🐝 Cross-Pollinator — Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Computer Vision, Data Science & Analytics, Deep Learning, Healthcare & Medicine, Interdisciplinary, Knowledge & Reasoning, Machine Learning, Mathematics & Optimization, Natural Language Processing, Reinforcement Learning, Robotics, Security & Privacy, Speech & Audio