# Digits that are not: Generating new types through deep neural nets

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.04345 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/1606.04345/

## Key facts

- Cited by 1 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 14 Jun 2016.

## Built on by (most cited first, 1 of 1)

- [Active Divergence with Generative Deep Learning -- A Survey and Taxonomy](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2107.05599/) (2021)

## Abstract (arXiv)

For an artificial creative agent, an essential driver of the search for novelty is a value function which is often provided by the system designer or users. We argue that an important barrier for progress in creativity research is the inability of these systems to develop their own notion of value for novelty. We propose a notion of knowledge-driven creativity that circumvent the need for an externally imposed value function, allowing the system to explore based on what it has learned from a set of referential objects. The concept is illustrated by a specific knowledge model provided by a deep generative autoencoder. Using the described system, we train a knowledge model on a set of digit images and we use the same model to build coherent sets of new digits that do not belong to known digit types.