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We see the external world as consisting not only of objects and their parts, but also of relations that hold between them. Visual analogy, which depends on similarities between relations, provides a clear example of how perception supports reasoning. Here we report an experiment in which we quantitatively measured the human ability to find analogical mappings between parts of different objects, where the objects to be compared were drawn either from the same category (e.g., images of two mammals, such as a dog and a horse), or from two dissimilar categories (e.g., a chair image mapped to a cat image). Humans showed systematic mapping patterns, but with greater variability in mapping responses when objects were drawn from dissimilar categories. We simulated the human response of analogical mapping using a computational model of mapping between 3D objects, visiPAM (visual Probabilistic Analogical Mapping). VisiPAM takes point-cloud representations of two 3D objects as inputs, and outputs the mapping between analogous parts of the two objects. VisiPAM consists of a visual module that constructs structural representations of individual objects, and a reasoning module that identifies a probabilistic mapping between parts of the two 3D objects. Model simulations not only capture the qualitative pattern of human mapping performance cross conditions, but also approach human-level reliability in solving visual analogy problems.
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Not quite any way you slice it: How different analogical constructions affect Raven's Matrices performance
Analogical reasoning fundamentally involves exploiting redundancy in a given task, but there are many different ways an intelligent agent can choose to define and exploit redundancy, often resulting in very different levels of task performance. We explore such variations in analogical reasoning within the domain of geometric matrix reasoning tasks, namely on the Raven’s Standard Progressive Matrices intelligence test. We show how different analogical constructions used by the same basic visual-imagery-based computational model—varying only in how they “slice” a matrix problem into parts and do search and optimization within/across these parts—achieve very different levels of test performance, ranging from 13/60 correct all the way up to 57/60 correct. Our findings suggest that the ability to select or build effective high-level analogical constructions can be as important as an agent’s competencies in low-level reasoning skills, which raises interesting open questions about the extent to which building the “right” analogies might contribute to individual differences in human matrix reasoning performance, and how intelligent agents might learn to build or select from among different analogical constructions in the first place.
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- Award ID(s):
- 1730044
- PAR ID:
- 10209953
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- Journal Name:
- Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Conference on Advances in Cognitive Systems (ACS)
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- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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