The first crank of the cultural ratchet: Learning and transmitting concepts through language

By Sahila Chopra, Michael Henry Tessler, Noah D. Goodman. 2019

24 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Cognitive Science & Psychology, Linguistics

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Citations in the corpus

• Shaping Visual Representations with Language for Few-Shot Classification (2019, neutral): “Humans are powerful and data-efficient learners partially due to the ability to learn from language [6, 30]: for instance, we can learn about robins not by seeing thousands of examples, but by being told that a robin is a bird with a red belly and brown feathers .”
• Emergent Communication of Generalizations (2021, background): “Inspired by human teaching [9], our core insight is that requiring generalization to combinatorially large sets of (possibly unseen) objects encourages agents to learn and communicate rich abstractions across inputs (e.”