{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/emulating-human-developmental-stages-with","title":"Emulating Human Developmental Stages with Bayesian Neural Networks","arxiv_id":"1902.07579","date":"2019-02-20","proceeding":null,"authors":["Marcel Binz","Dominik Endres"],"abstract":"We compare the acquisition of knowledge in humans and machines. Research from\nthe field of developmental psychology indicates, that human-employed hypothesis\nare initially guided by simple rules, before evolving into more complex\ntheories. This observation is shared across many tasks and domains. We\ninvestigate whether stages of development in artificial learning systems are\nbased on the same characteristics. We operationalize developmental stages as\nthe size of the data-set, on which the artificial system is trained. For our\nanalysis we look at the developmental progress of Bayesian Neural Networks on\nthree different data-sets, including occlusion, support and quantity comparison\ntasks. We compare the results with prior research from developmental psychology\nand find agreement between the family of optimized models and pattern of\ndevelopment observed in infants and children on all three tasks, indicating\ncommon principles for the acquisition of knowledge.","url_abs":"http://arxiv.org/abs/1902.07579v1","url_pdf":"http://arxiv.org/pdf/1902.07579v1.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"emulating-human-developmental-stages-with","repo_url":"https://github.com/marcelbinz/Developmental-Stages-of-BNNs","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":0,"framework":"pytorch","reach":{"status":"ok"}}],"tasks":[],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":"https://app.syntology.ai/?focus=1902.07579","mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}