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arXiv: cs.AI preprintsInternational6 November 2026

BabyTheorist: A Benchmark for Learning to Theorize the World from Observation Alone

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arXiv:2611.08177v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: How would we know whether a machine truly understands the world? We argue that one key capability is \textit{observational theory learning}: acquiring reusable theories from pure observations and applying them to new situations. Current visual reasoning benchmarks focus primarily on the latter, presenting each task as a few-shot puzzle grouped by a common rule. We introduce BabyTheorist, a benchmark for controlled training and evaluation of observational theory learning. BabyTheorist generates continual streams of before-after visual observations
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