Tobias Gerstenberg

Tobias Gerstenberg

Assistant Professor, Psychology
Member, Bio-X
Faculty Affiliate, Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI)
Member, Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
PhD, University College London, Cognitive Science (2013)
MSc, University College London, Cognitive and Decision Sciences (2008)
Vordiplom, Humboldt University Berlin, Psychology (2007)
Affiliation:
Affiliated Faculty
Committee:
Causality in Cognition Lab
Profile
gerstenberg@stanford.edu

Related Projects

Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
SIGF - Graduate Fellowship
2021
Inference via Abstraction: A framework for efficient Bayesian cognition

We propose a novel framework for efficient Bayesian cognition called Inference via Abstraction (IvA), which learns to approximate complex world models with simpler abstractions that capture main dependencies, but leverage structure in the prior distribution for efficient inference. We instantiate IvA with a combination of probabilistic graphical models and deep neural networks.