Reimagining Internal Family Systems Through the Lens of AI

IFS Concepts The Internal Family Systems is a psychotherapy proposed by Richard Schwartz in the 1980s. In this model, everybody is a combination of different parts like those characters in the film, Inside Out. But the difference is that only emotions are anthropomorphized in the animation while in IFS, a part can also be a piece of thought or mindset. For example, if you have a social appearance anxiety, there would always be a voice in your mind criticizing your appearance. In IFS we consider the source this voice as a part of your mind. It is kind of like the dramaturgical theory with IFS focusing more on internal feelings and dramaturgical theory emphesizing more on social characters. ...

August 8, 2024 · 8 min

Brainstorm

Here are some immature ideas that I come up with when I am taking a walk or having a meal. Feel free to get some inspiration from this post and write some papers. I am glad to see study on these topics. This post will be updated from time to time. The research field underestimates the importance of optimization. You cannot expect one to have perfect memory. What we do every day is just adjusting our cognition. That’s what Mass Editing Memory in a Transformer does! This method remodels knowledge, namely the relation between object. But it does not involve behavioral remodeling, for example the procedure to solve a tedious math problem. Information of relations between texts and images is in cross-attention layers(e.g. prompt to prompt), while the knowledge-related relations are stored in MLP layers(e.g. https://rome.baulab.info/). Are procedural relations stored in cross-attention layers? ...

March 16, 2023 · 5 min