Auto-supervised learning in the Bayesian Programming Framework

Domestic and real world robotics requires continuous learning of new skills and behaviors to interact with humans. Auto-supervised learning, a compromise between supervised and completely unsupervised learning, consist in relying on previous knowledge to acquire new skills. We propose here to realize auto-supervised learning by exploiting statistical regularities in the sensorimotor space of a robot. In our context, it corresponds to achieve feature selection in a Bayesian programming framework. We compare several feature selection algorithms and validate them on a real robotic experiment

Auto-supervised learning in the Bayesian programming framework

Abstract — Domestic and real world robotics requires continuous learning of new skills and behaviors to interact with humans. Auto-supervised learning, a compromise between supervised and completely unsupervised learning, consist in relying on previous knowledge to acquire new skills. We propose here to realize auto-supervised learning by exploiting statistical regularities in the sensorimotor space of a robot. In our context, it corresponds to achieve feature selection in a Bayesian programming framework. We compare several feature selection algorithms and validate them on a real robotic experiment