Measuring and Modeling Physical Intrinsic Motivation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2305.13452v3
• Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2023 19:57:38 GMT
• Title: Measuring and Modeling Physical Intrinsic Motivation
• Authors: Julio Martinez, Felix Binder, Haoliang Wang, Nick Haber, Judith Fan, Daniel L. K. Yamins
• Abstract summary: Humans are interactive agents driven to seek out situations with interesting physical dynamics. We first collect ratings of how interesting humans find a variety of physics scenarios. We then model human interestingness responses by implementing various hypotheses of intrinsic motivation.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Humans are interactive agents driven to seek out situations with interesting physical dynamics. Here we formalize the functional form of physical intrinsic motivation. We first collect ratings of how interesting humans find a variety of physics scenarios. We then model human interestingness responses by implementing various hypotheses of intrinsic motivation including models that rely on simple scene features to models that depend on forward physics prediction. We find that the single best predictor of human responses is adversarial reward, a model derived from physical prediction loss. We also find that simple scene feature models do not generalize their prediction of human responses across all scenarios. Finally, linearly combining the adversarial model with the number of collisions in a scene leads to the greatest improvement in predictivity of human responses, suggesting humans are driven towards scenarios that result in high information gain and physical activity.

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