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The concept of intelligent agents is—roughly speaking—based on an architecture and a set of behavioral programs that primarily serve to solve problems autonomously.
Increasing the degree of autonomy and improving cognitive performance, which can be assessed using cognitive and behavioral tests, are two important research trends. The degree of autonomy can be increased using higher-level psychological modules with which needs and motives are taken into account. In our approach we integrate these modules in architecture for an embodied, enactive multi-agent system, such that distributed problem solutions can be achieved. Furthermore, after uncovering some weaknesses in the cognitive performance of traditionally designed agents, we focus on two major aspects. On the one hand, the knowledge processing of cognitive agents is based on logical formalisms, which have deficiencies in the representation and processing of incomplete or uncertain knowledge. On the other hand, in order to fully understand the performance of cognitive agents, explanations at the symbolic and subsymbolic levels are required. Both aspects can be addressed by quantum-inspired cognitive agents. To investigate this approach, we consider two tasks in the sphere of Shannon's famous mouse-maze problem: namely classifying target objects and ontology inference. First, the classification of an unknown target object in the mouse-maze, such as cheese, water, and bacon, is based on sensory data that measure characteristics such as odor, color, shape, or nature. For an intelligent agent, we need a classifier with good prediction accuracy and explanatory power on a symbolic level. Boolean logic classifiers do work on a symbolic level but are not adequate for dealing with continuous data. Therefore, we demonstrate and evaluate a quantum-logic-inspired classifier in comparison to Boolean-logic-based classifiers. Second, ontology inference is iteratively achieved by a quantum-inspired agent through maze exploration. This requires the agent to be able to manipulate its own state by performing actions and by collecting sensory data during perception. We suggest an algebraic approach where both kinds of behaviors are uniquely described by quantum operators. The agent's state space is then iteratively constructed by carrying out unitary action operators, while Hermitian perception operators act as observables on quantum eigenstates. As a result, an ontology emerges as the simultaneous solution of the respective eigenvalue equations.
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In this paper we show how word class based language modeling can support the integration of a small language in modern applications of speech technology. The methods described in this paper can be applied for any language. We demonstrate the methods on Upper Sorbian. The word classes model the semantic expressions of numerals, date and time of day. The implementation of the created grammars was realized in the form of finite-state-transducers (FSTs) and minimalists grammars (MGs). We practically demonstrate the usage of the FSTs in a simple smart-home speech application, that is able to set wake-up alarms and appointments expressed in a variety of spontaneous and natural sentences. While the created MGs are not integrated in an application for practical use yet, they provide evidence that MGs could potentially work more efficient than FSTs in built-on applications. In particular, MGs can work with a significantly smaller lexicon size, since their more complex structure lets them generate more expressions with less items, while still avoiding wrong expressions.
Softness is one of the essential properties of hygiene tissue products. Reliably measuring it is of utmost importance to ensure the balance between customer expectations and cost-effective tissue production. This study presents a method for assessing softness by analyzing acoustic emissions produced while tearing a tissue specimen. The aim was to train neural network models using the corrected results of human panel tests as the ground truth labels and to predict the tissue softness in two- and three-class recognition tasks. We also investigate the possibility of predicting some production parameters related to the softness property. The results proved that tissue softness and production parameters could be reliably estimated only by the tearing noise.
We present an approach for ultrasonic non-destructive testing of adhesive bonding employing unsupervised machine learning with autoencoders.The models are trained exclusively on the features derived from pulse-echo ultrasonic signals on a specimen with good adhesive bonding and tested on another specimen with artificially added defects.The resulting pseudo-probabilities indicating anomalies are visualized and presented along to the C-scan of the same specimen. As a result, we achieved improved representation of the defects, allowing their automatic and reliable detection.
Vector symbolic architectures (VSA) are a viable approach for the hyperdimensional representation of symbolic data, such as documents, syntactic structures, or semantic frames. We present a rigorous mathematical framework for the representation of phrase structure trees and parse trees of context-free grammars (CFG) in Fock space, i.e. infinite-dimensional Hilbert space as being used in quantum field theory. We define a novel normal form for CFG by means of term algebras. Using a recently developed software toolbox, called FockBox, we construct Fock space representations for the trees built up by a CFG left-corner (LC) parser. We prove a universal representation theorem for CFG term algebras in Fock space and illustrate our findings through a low-dimensional principal component projection of the LC parser state. Our approach could leverage the development of VSA for explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) by means of hyperdimensional deep neural computation.
Das Fachgebiet der Kognitiven Technischen Systeme zeichnet sich durch einen hohen Grad an Interdisziplinarität (z. B. Kenntnisse auf den Gebieten Biologie, Psychologie, Informatik und den Ingenieurwissenschaften) aus. Nach wie vor besteht Bedarf an einer methodischen Darstellung des Fachgebietes, bei der die theoretische Durchdringung von Zusammenhängen zwischen den verschiedenen Wissensgebieten zusätzlich durch Anschaulichkeit unterstützt wird. Die vorliegende Arbeit stellt einen Fortschrittsbericht zur Realisierung eines Forschungs- und Experimentiersystems dar, mit dem wir dieses Anliegen unterstützen und über das wir erstmals konzeptionell in [1] berichtet haben. In diesem Beitrag folgen wir einem integrativen Ansatz zur Entwicklung einer kognitiven Architektur, mit der unter Verwendung repräsentationaler Datenstrukturen adaptives Verhalten auf verschiedenen Zeitskalen sowie zwei wichtige Verhaltensprogramme für das Problemlösen (Objektfindung, Exploration) auf der gemeinsamen Grundlage von Markov-Entscheidungsprozessen umgesetzt werden. Mit einem Kurzbericht zum Entwicklungsstand der physikalischen Experimentierumgebung und einer Zusammenfassung der bislang erreichten Ergebnisse beschließen wir den diesjährigen Beitrag.
In this paper, we present a preliminary study for acoustic modeling in Upper Sorbian, where a model of German was used in cross-lingual transfer learning. At first, we define the grapheme and phoneme inventories and map the target phonemes from the most similar German source equivalents. Phonetically balanced sentences for the recording prompts were selected from a combination of general and domain-specific textual data. The speech corpora with a total duration of around 11 hours was collected in controlled recording sessions involving an equal number of females, males, and children. The baseline acoustic model was employed to force-align the speech corpora given the knowledge-based phoneme mappings. How well the mappings were, was evaluated by the phoneme confusions in free-phoneme recognition. The new derived data-driven model with a reduced phoneme set was included in the adaptation and evaluation along with the baseline acoustic model. The model adaptation performance was cross-validated with the “Leave One Group Out” strategy. We observed major improvements in phoneme error rates after adaptation for the knowledge-based and data-driven phoneme mappings. The study confirmed the feasibility of transfer learning for acoustic model adaptation in the case of Upper Sorbian, at the same time demonstrating practical usability with a small vocabulary speech recognition application (Smart Lamp).