affordances
Last modified on December 29, 2023
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Links to “affordances”
Agency to Guide Representation Learning & Disentangling (Agency to Guide Representation Learning & Disentangling)
(E. Bengio et al, 2017; V Thomas e al 2017; Kim et al ICML 2019)
Independent mechanisms: there are ways to modify a single object in the graph (e.g., you can move a chair ➡️🪑. )
Way that we represent actions <=> objects: there’s a bijection there.
Connected to the psychological notion of affordances: the way we understand objects is by the things we can do with them.