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BPL

Bayesian Program Learning model for one-shot learning

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6Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
987GitHub stars
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Bayesian Program Learning model for one-shot learning

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Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by 6-hour interval6 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2015-12-11 00:08:42 UTC to 2015-12-15 07:44:27 UTC.

0122015-12-11 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-12-11 06:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 commentsDec 11, 00:002015-12-11 06:00:00 UTC to 2015-12-11 12:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2015-12-11 12:00:00 UTC to 2015-12-11 18:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2015-12-11 18:00:00 UTC to 2015-12-12 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2015-12-12 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-12-12 06:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2015-12-12 06:00:00 UTC to 2015-12-12 12:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2015-12-12 12:00:00 UTC to 2015-12-12 18:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2015-12-12 18:00:00 UTC to 2015-12-13 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2015-12-13 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-12-13 06:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsDec 13, 00:002015-12-13 06:00:00 UTC to 2015-12-13 12:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2015-12-13 12:00:00 UTC to 2015-12-13 18:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2015-12-13 18:00:00 UTC to 2015-12-14 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2015-12-14 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-12-14 06:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2015-12-14 06:00:00 UTC to 2015-12-14 12:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2015-12-14 12:00:00 UTC to 2015-12-14 18:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2015-12-14 18:00:00 UTC to 2015-12-15 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2015-12-15 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-12-15 06:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2015-12-15 06:00:00 UTC to 2015-12-15 12:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsDec 15, 06:00

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Dec 11, 00:002015-12-11 00:00:00 UTC2015-12-11 06:00:00 UTC211
Dec 11, 06:002015-12-11 06:00:00 UTC2015-12-11 12:00:00 UTC202
Dec 11, 12:002015-12-11 12:00:00 UTC2015-12-11 18:00:00 UTC000
Dec 11, 18:002015-12-11 18:00:00 UTC2015-12-12 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 12, 00:002015-12-12 00:00:00 UTC2015-12-12 06:00:00 UTC000
Dec 12, 06:002015-12-12 06:00:00 UTC2015-12-12 12:00:00 UTC000
Dec 12, 12:002015-12-12 12:00:00 UTC2015-12-12 18:00:00 UTC000
Dec 12, 18:002015-12-12 18:00:00 UTC2015-12-13 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 13, 00:002015-12-13 00:00:00 UTC2015-12-13 06:00:00 UTC000
Dec 13, 06:002015-12-13 06:00:00 UTC2015-12-13 12:00:00 UTC000
Dec 13, 12:002015-12-13 12:00:00 UTC2015-12-13 18:00:00 UTC000
Dec 13, 18:002015-12-13 18:00:00 UTC2015-12-14 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 14, 00:002015-12-14 00:00:00 UTC2015-12-14 06:00:00 UTC000
Dec 14, 06:002015-12-14 06:00:00 UTC2015-12-14 12:00:00 UTC000
Dec 14, 12:002015-12-14 12:00:00 UTC2015-12-14 18:00:00 UTC101
Dec 14, 18:002015-12-14 18:00:00 UTC2015-12-15 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 15, 00:002015-12-15 00:00:00 UTC2015-12-15 06:00:00 UTC000
Dec 15, 06:002015-12-15 06:00:00 UTC2015-12-15 12:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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Paper: https://www.sciencemag.org/content/350/6266/1332.full Code: https://github.com/brendenlake/BPL Abstract: People learning new concepts can often generalize successfully from just a single example, yet machine learning algorithms typically require tens or hundreds of examples to perform with similar accuracy. People can also use learned concepts in richer ways than conventional algorithms—for action, imagination, and explanation. We present a computational model that captures these human learning abilities for a large class of simple visual concepts: handwritten characters from the world’s alphabets. The model represents concepts as simple programs that best explain observed examples under a Bayesian criterion. On a challenging one-shot classification task, the model achieves human-level performance while outperforming recent deep le
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arning approaches. We also present several “visual Turing tests” probing the model’s creative generalization abilities, which in many cases are indistinguishable from human behavior.
In A Learning Advance in Artificial Intelligence Rivals Human Abilities

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