Diffusion Models and Concept Formation
Humans organize knowledge into a taxonomy of concepts with nested levels of abstraction and a \emph{basic level} at which people recognize and name objects with the least cognitive effort. Cobweb is a classic cognitive account of this ability, an incremental learner that builds a probabilistic concept hierarchy by maximizing category utility. We argue that diffusion models, although designed for…
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