Question Asking as Program Generation

Understand

A hallmark of human intelligence is the ability to ask rich, creative, and revealing questions.

• Here we introduce a cognitive model capable of constructing human-like questions.
• Our approach treats questions as formal programs that, when executed on the state of the world, output an answer.
• The model specifies a probability distribution over a complex, compositional space of programs, favoring concise programs that help the agent learn in the current context.