# Blog posts

## 2019

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Model extraction; world models and representations; a MAS taxonomy.

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State representation learning; emotions and qualitative regions for heuristic explanation; causal reasoning as a middle ground between statistics and mechanics; deep learning and neuroscientific discovery.

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Meta-learning causal relations; decomposing explanation questions; misleading explanations; the critical influence of metrics.

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Modelling other agents; DAGGER; evaluating feature importance visualisations; self, soul and circular ethics.

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The theory of why-questions; fidelity versus accuracy; trees and programs as RL policies; partially-interpretable hybrids.

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Decision trees for state space segmentation; lightweight manual labelling as a ‘seed’ for interpretability; the dangerous of homogenous distributed control; AI and the climate crisis.

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This week didn’t involve very much reading since I focused instead on my practical investigation of the traffic coordination problem. Nonetheless, I encountered a variety of fascinating ideas.

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Approximately three weeks in, I’m starting to work on a case study project that will allow me to explore some of the key ideas around multi-agent explainability – collision avoidance within a population of autonomous vehicles on road / track networks. As a result, more of my reading this week has focused specifically on the multi-agent context.