Solving Raven's Progressive Matrices with Neural Networks

Abstract: Raven's Progressive Matrices (RPM) have been widely used for Intelligence Quotient (IQ) test of humans. In this paper, we aim to solve RPM with neural networks in both supervised and unsupervised manners. First, we investigate strategies to reduce over-fitting in supervised learning. We suggest the use of a neural network with deep layers and pre-training on large-scale datasets to improve model generalization. Experiments on the RAVEN dataset show that the overall accuracy of our supervised approach surpasses human-level performance. Second, as an intelligent agent requires to automatically learn new skills to solve new problems, we propose the first unsupervised method, Multilabel Classification with Pseudo Target (MCPT), for RPM problems. Based on the design of the pseudo target, MCPT converts the unsupervised learning problem to a supervised task. Experiments show that MCPT doubles the testing accuracy of random guessing e.g. 28.50% vs. 12.5%. Finally, we discuss the problem of solving RPM with unsupervised and explainable strategies in the future.