AI RESEARCH
Learning to Theorize the World from Observation
arXiv CS.LG
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ArXi:2605.03413v1 Announce Type: new What does it mean to understand the world? Contemporary world models often operationalize understanding as accurate future prediction in latent or observation space. Developmental cognitive science, however, suggests a different view: human understanding emerges through the construction of internal theories of how the world works, even before mature language is acquired. Inspired by this theory-building view of cognition, we