Computational principles of intelligence: learning and reasoning with neural networks

Despite significant achievements and current interest in machine learning and artificial intelligence, the quest for a theory of intelligence, allowing general and efficient problem solving, has done little progress. This work tries to contribute in this direction by proposing a novel framework of intelligence based on three principles. First, the generative and mirroring nature of learned representations of inputs. Second, a grounded, intrinsically motivated and iterative process for learning, problem solving and imagination. Third, an ad hoc tuning of the reasoning mechanism over causal compositional representations using inhibition rules. Together, those principles create a systems approach offering interpretability, continuous learning, common sense and more. This framework is being developed from the following perspectives: as a general problem solving method, as a human oriented tool and finally, as model of information processing in the brain.

A New Framework for Machine Intelligence: Concepts and Prototype

Machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) have become hot topics in many information processing areas, from chatbots to scientific data analysis. At the same time, there is uncertainty about the possibility of extending predominant ML technologies to become general solutions with continuous learning capabilities. Here, a simple, yet comprehensive, theoretical framework for intelligent systems is presented. A combination of Mirror Compositional Representations (MCR) and a Solution-Critic Loop (SCL) is proposed as a generic approach for different types of problems. A prototype implementation is presented for document comparison using English Wikipedia corpus.