Sridhar Mahadevan

Books

Books and evolving digital manuscripts on artificial intelligence, machine learning, decision-making, creativity, and representation.

The categorical AI series

Four books. One categorical research program.

A completed four-volume arc from functorial models of cognition and learning by structural repair to infinitesimal creativity and the discovery of compositional worlds.

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Categories for Artificial General Intelligence

A detailed introduction to the application of category theory to formulate a research program in artificial general intelligence.

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Machine Learning from Enforcing Compositionality

A novel formulation of machine learning, based not on minimizing loss functions, but driven by failures of compositionality.

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Infinitesimal Creativity

A novel framework for modeling creativity as a double involution over assimilation of experience and accommodation through theory augmentation.

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Discovering Compositional Worlds from Interaction

A categorical theory of how lifelong learners identify doctrines, build world models from interaction, and repair them when their structural assumptions fail.

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Earlier books

Representation, learning, and robotics

Earlier work on representation discovery, reinforcement learning, and learning in autonomous systems.

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Representation Discovery in Markov Decision Processes and Reinforcement Learning

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