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The next VSAonline webinar is at 17:00 UTC (not the usual time), Monday 27 January.

Zoom: https://ltu-se.zoom.us/j/65564790287

WEB: https://bit.ly/vsaonline

Speaker: Anthony Thomas from UC Davis, USA

Title: ”Sketching a Picture of Vector Symbolic Architectures”

Abstract : Sketching algorithms are a broad area of research in theoretical computer science and numerical analysis that aim to distil data into a simple summary, called a "sketch," that retains some essential notion of structure while being much more efficient to store, query, and transmit.

Vector-symbolic architectures (VSAs) are an approach to computing on data represented using random vectors, and provide an elegant conceptual framework for realizing a wide variety of data structures and algorithms in a way that lends itself to implementation in highly-parallel and energy-efficient computer hardware.

Sketching algorithms and VSA have a substantial degree of consonance in their methods, motivations, and applications. In this tutorial style talk, I will discuss some of the connections between these two fields, focusing, in particular, on the connections between VSA and tensor-sketches, a family of sketching algorithms concerned with the setting in which the data being sketched can be decomposed into Kronecker (tensor) products between more primitive objects. This is exactly the situation of interest in VSA and the two fields have arrived at strikingly similar solutions to this problem.

#VectorSymbolicArchitectures #VSA #HyperdimensionalComputing #HDC #AI #ML #ComputationalCognitiveScience #CompCogSci #MathematicalPsychology #MathPsych #CognitiveScience #CogSci @cogsci

I was looking through the VSAonline website (https://sites.google.com/view/hdvsaonline/home) and saw that by the end of this year there will be 96 recorded webinars plus the recordings from the Midnight Sun 2023 workshop.

So, if you're interested in #VectorSymbolicArchitecture / #HyperdimensionalComputing or just #VSA / #HDC -curious, the VSAonline website is the place to go (or head over to https://www.hd-computing.com/home, where there's a wider range of resources, including publication lists).

#CognitiveScience #CogSci #ComputationalCognitiveScience #CompCogSci #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #ML #MachineLearning #neuromorphic #ComputationalNeuroscience

Thanks @hosford42 for reminding me of this half-day tutorial on Vector Symbolic Architectures / Hyperdimensional Computing. The authors have been applying HDC/VSA to place recognition in robotics, but the tutorial coverage is much wider.

https://www.tu-chemnitz.de/etit/proaut/workshops_tutorials/hdc_ki19/index.html

#VSA #VectorSymbolicArchitecture #HDC #HyperdimensionalComputing #CogRob #CognitiveRobotics #CompCogSci #ComputationalCognitiveScience #CogSci #CognitiveScience #MathPsych #MathematicalPsychology

Here are two high level articles that mention Vector Symbolic Architecure / HyperDimensional Computing in the more "popular" end of the technical press:

https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-new-approach-to-computation-reimagines-artificial-intelligence-20230413/

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=10098176

#VSA #VectorSymbolicArchitecture #HDC #HyperdimensionalComputing #CompCogSci #ComputationalCognitiveScience #CogSci #CognitiveScience #MathPsych #MathematicalPsychology

High level piece on hyperdimensional computing / Vector Symbolic Architecture in Quanta Magazine:
https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-new-approach-to-computation-reimagines-artificial-intelligence-20230413/

#VSA #VectorSymbolicArchitecture #HDC #HyperdimensionalComputing #CompCogSci #CogSci #CognitiveScience

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Introducing AutumnSynth, a step toward automating scientific discovery through program synthesis.

AutumnSynth synthesizes the source code of a video game from seconds of play.

paper: https://basis.ai/publications/autumn_popl23.pdf

Blog: https://basis.ai/blog/autumn/

Why do this? How does it work?
🦃🧵 https://twitter.com/ZennaTavares/status/1620855534483296256

#cogsci @cogsci #compcogsci #programinduction #programsynthesis

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Boosting for my followers - see original post in the thread above.

The BBS target article on the Language of Thought Hypothesis states:

"We outline six core properties of
LoTs: (i) discrete constituents; (ii) role-filler independence; (iii) predicate-argument
structure; (iv) logical operators; (v) inferential promiscuity; and (vi) abstract content."

It's interesting to think about the extent to which those properties are directly enabled by neural representations using Vector Symbolic Architectures / Hyperdimensional Computing. It hadn't occurred to me to draw a line between LoT and VSA/HDC.

#CogSci #CognitiveScience #CompCogSci #ComputationalCognitiveScience #VSA #VectorSymbolicArchitecture #HDC #HyperdimensionalComputing