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Heuristic approaches often do so well that they seem to pretty much always give the right answer. How close can heuristic algorithms get to always giving the right answer, without inducing seismic complexity-theoretic consequences? This…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2012-10-31 Lane A. Hemaspaandra , Ryan Williams

Why do collectives outperform individuals when solving some problems? Fundamentally, collectives have greater computational resources with more sensory information, more memory, more processing capacity, and more ways to act. While greater…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-09-11 Charlie Pilgrim , Joe Morford , Elizabeth Warren , Mélisande Aellen , Christopher Krupenye , Richard P Mann , Dora Biro

In many reinforcement learning (RL) applications, augmenting the task rewards with heuristic rewards that encode human priors about how a task should be solved is crucial for achieving desirable performance. However, because such heuristics…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Chi-Chang Lee , Zhang-Wei Hong , Pulkit Agrawal

Human creativity generates novel ideas to solve real-world problems. This thereby grants us the power to transform the surrounding world and extend our human attributes beyond what is currently possible. Creative ideas are not just new and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-21 Georgi V. Georgiev , Danko D. Georgiev

Recent progress in artificial intelligence provides the opportunity to ask the question of what is unique about human intelligence, but with a new comparison class. I argue that we can understand human intelligence, and the ways in which it…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-09-30 Thomas L. Griffiths

This work considers infinite-horizon optimal control of positive linear systems applied to the case of network routing problems. We demonstrate the equivalence between Stochastic Shortest Path (SSP) problems and optimal control of a certain…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-17 David Ohlin , Anders Rantzer , Emma Tegling

An optimal heuristic logic is an effective method for finding the sum of all prime numbers up to a given number. This paper presents different approaches, namely, general method and optimal method which facilitate to compare the results and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-06-27 P. Vasanth Sena

Cognitive theories for reasoning are about understanding how humans come to conclusions from a set of premises. Starting from hypothetical thoughts, we are interested which are the implications behind basic everyday language and how do we…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-05-11 Emmanuelle Dietz , Johannes K. Fichte , Florim Hamiti

Individual's semantics have been used for guiding the learning process of Genetic Programming solving supervised learning problems. The semantics has been used to proposed novel genetic operators as well as different ways of performing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Claudia N. Sánchez , Mario Graff

Crowdsourcing systems aggregate decisions of many people to help users quickly identify high-quality options, such as the best answers to questions or interesting news stories. A long-standing issue in crowdsourcing is how option quality…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Keith Burghardt , Tad Hogg , Raissa M. D'Souza , Kristina Lerman , Marton Posfai

A large number of optimization algorithms have been developed by researchers to solve a variety of complex problems in operations management area. We present a novel optimization algorithm belonging to the class of swarm intelligence…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2016-08-05 Ilario De Vincenzo , Ilaria Giannoccaro , Giuseppe Carbone

This paper proposes a novel population-based meta-heuristic optimization algorithm, called Perfectionism Search Algorithm (PSA), which is based on the psychological aspects of perfectionism. The PSA algorithm takes inspiration from one of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-16 A. Ghodousian , M. Mollakazemiha , N. Karimian

For machine learning perception problems, human-level classification performance is used as an estimate of top algorithm performance. Thus, it is important to understand as precisely as possible the factors that impact human-level…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Josiah I. Clark , Caroline A. Clark

Recent advances in Large Language Models have led to remarkable achievements across a variety of Natural Language Processing tasks, making prompt engineering increasingly central to guiding model outputs. While manual methods can be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Wendi Cui , Zhuohang Li , Hao Sun , Damien Lopez , Kamalika Das , Bradley A. Malin , Sricharan Kumar , Jiaxin Zhang

Algorithms are used to aid human decision makers by making predictions and recommending decisions. Currently, these algorithms are trained to optimize prediction accuracy. What if they were optimized to control final decisions? In this…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Ruqing Xu , Sarah Dean

Algorithmic support systems often return optimal solutions that are hard to understand. Effective human-algorithm collaboration, however, requires interpretability. When machine solutions are equally optimal, humans must select one, but a…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Dominik Pegler , Frank Jäkel , David Steyrl , Frank Scharnowski , Filip Melinscak

Those designing autonomous systems that interact with humans will invariably face questions about how humans think and make decisions. Fortunately, computational cognitive science offers insight into human decision-making using tools that…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-09-02 Mark K. Ho , Thomas L. Griffiths

The framework of cognitively bounded rationality treats problem solving as fundamentally rational, but emphasises that it is constrained by cognitive architecture and the task environment. This paper investigates a simple decision making…

Applications · Statistics 2019-11-05 Tomi Peltola , Jussi Jokinen , Samuel Kaski

Complex, multi-task problems have proven to be difficult to solve efficiently in a sparse-reward reinforcement learning setting. In order to be sample efficient, multi-task learning requires reuse and sharing of low-level policies. To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Valerie Chen , Abhinav Gupta , Kenneth Marino

Metaheuristics are general methods that guide application of concrete heuristic(s) to problems that are too hard to solve using exact algorithms. However, even though a growing body of literature has been devoted to their statistical…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Miloš Simić