SIX NECESSARY QUALITIES OF SELF-LEARNING SYSTEMS - A Short Brainstorming

Gabriele Peters

2011

Abstract

In this position paper the broad issue of learning and self-organisation is addressed. I deal with the question how biological and technological information processing systems can autonomously acquire cognitive capabilities only from data available in the environment. In the main part I claim six qualities that are, in my opinion, necessary qualities of self-learning systems. These qualities are (1) hierarchical processing, (2) emergence on all levels of hierarchy, (3) multi-directional information transfer between the levels of hierarchy, (4) generalization from few examples, (5) exploration, and (6) adaptivity. I try to support my considerations by theoretical reflections as well as by an informal introduction of a self-learning system that features these qualities and displays promising behavior in object recognition applications. Although this paper has more the character of a brainstorming the proposed qualities can be regarded as roadmap for problems to be addressed in future research in the field of autonomous learning.

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Peters G. (2011). SIX NECESSARY QUALITIES OF SELF-LEARNING SYSTEMS - A Short Brainstorming . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Neural Computation Theory and Applications - Volume 1: NCTA, (IJCCI 2011) ISBN 978-989-8425-84-3, pages 358-364. DOI: 10.5220/0003679003580364


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@conference{ncta11,
author={Gabriele Peters},
title={SIX NECESSARY QUALITIES OF SELF-LEARNING SYSTEMS - A Short Brainstorming},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Neural Computation Theory and Applications - Volume 1: NCTA, (IJCCI 2011)},
year={2011},
pages={358-364},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003679003580364},
isbn={978-989-8425-84-3},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Neural Computation Theory and Applications - Volume 1: NCTA, (IJCCI 2011)
TI - SIX NECESSARY QUALITIES OF SELF-LEARNING SYSTEMS - A Short Brainstorming
SN - 978-989-8425-84-3
AU - Peters G.
PY - 2011
SP - 358
EP - 364
DO - 10.5220/0003679003580364