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Learning and decision making in the brain are key processes critical to survival, and yet are processes implemented by non-ideal biological building blocks which can impose significant error. We explore quantitatively how the brain might…

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Neural population activity often exhibits rich variability and temporal structure. This variability is thought to arise from single-neuron stochasticity, neural dynamics on short time-scales, as well as from modulations of neural firing…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-10-14 Mijung Park , Jakob H. Macke

Although evidence integration to the boundary model has successfully explained a wide range of behavioral and neural data in decision making under uncertainty, how animals learn and optimize the boundary remains unresolved. Here, we propose…

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Most decisions require information gathering from a stimulus presented with different gaps. Indeed, the brain process of this integration is rarely ambiguous. Recently, it has been claimed that humans can optimally integrate the information…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2018-10-29 Maryam Tohidi-Moghaddam , Sajjad Zabbah , Farzaneh Olianezhad , Reza Ebrahimpour

Catastrophic forgetting and capacity saturation are the central challenges of any parametric lifelong learning system. In this work, we study these challenges in the context of sequential supervised learning with an emphasis on recurrent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Shagun Sodhani , Sarath Chandar , Yoshua Bengio

Animal brains flexibly and efficiently achieve many behavioral tasks with a single neural network. A core goal in modern neuroscience is to map the mechanisms of the brain's flexibility onto the dynamics underlying neural populations.…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2026-03-12 Anirudh Jamkhandi , Ali Korojy , Olivier Codol , Guillaume Lajoie , Matthew G. Perich

Advances in experimental techniques allow the collection of high-resolution spatio-temporal data that track individual motile entities. These tracking data can be used to calibrate mathematical models describing the motility of individual…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-08-21 Arianna Ceccarelli , Alexander P. Browning , Tai Chaiamarit , Ilan Davis , Ruth E. Baker

There is a concerted effort to build domain-general artificial intelligence in the form of universal neural network models with sufficient computational flexibility to solve a wide variety of cognitive tasks but without requiring…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Jascha Achterberg , Danyal Akarca , Moataz Assem , Moritz Heimbach , Duncan E. Astle , John Duncan

We study collective decision-making in a model of human groups, with network interactions, performing two alternative choice tasks. We focus on the speed-accuracy tradeoff, i.e., the tradeoff between a quick decision and a reliable…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-02-18 Vaibhav Srivastava , Naomi Ehrich Leonard

Humans and animals exhibit a range of interesting behaviors in dynamic environments, and it is unclear how our brains actively reformat this dense sensory information to enable these behaviors. Experimental neuroscience is undergoing a…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2023-11-07 Aran Nayebi

Learning predictive models from observations using deep neural networks (DNNs) is a promising new approach to many real-world planning and control problems. However, common DNNs are too unstructured for effective planning, and current…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Ziang Liu , Genggeng Zhou , Jeff He , Tobia Marcucci , Li Fei-Fei , Jiajun Wu , Yunzhu Li

Diffusion models have emerged as a powerful framework for generative tasks in deep learning. They decompose generative modeling into two computational primitives: deterministic neural-network evaluation and stochastic sampling. Current…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Nihal Sanjay Singh , Mazdak Mohseni-Rajaee , Shaila Niazi , Kerem Y. Camsari

We survey continuous-time generative modeling methods based on transporting a simple reference distribution to a data distribution via stochastic or deterministic dynamics. We present a unified framework in which diffusion models,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Aditya Ranganath , Mukesh Singhal

In this technical note, we consider a collaborative learning framework with principal-agent setting, in which the principal at each time-step determines a set of appropriate aggregation coefficients based on how the current parameter…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-09-25 Getachew K Befekadu

Decision Transformer-based decision-making agents have shown the ability to generalize across multiple tasks. However, their performance relies on massive data and computation. We argue that this inefficiency stems from the forgetting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Jikun Kang , Romain Laroche , Xingdi Yuan , Adam Trischler , Xue Liu , Jie Fu

This paper introduces the Dual-System Thinking (DST) model, a decision-theoretic framework that integrates psychological dual-process theories into economic modeling. A single cognitive weight parameter governs the relative influence of the…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2026-05-28 Yusufcan Masatlioglu , Tri Phu Vu

Recent advances at the intersection of control theory, neuroscience, and machine learning have revealed novel mechanisms by which dynamical systems perform computation. These advances encompass a wide range of conceptual, mathematical, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Arthur N. Montanari , Francesco Bullo , Dmitry Krotov , Adilson E. Motter

Understanding adaptive human driving behavior, in particular how drivers manage uncertainty, is of key importance for developing simulated human driver models that can be used in the evaluation and development of autonomous vehicles.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Johan Engström , Ran Wei , Anthony McDonald , Alfredo Garcia , Matt O'Kelly , Leif Johnson

This paper proposes models of learning process in teams of individuals who collectively execute a sequence of tasks and whose actions are determined by individual skill levels and networks of interpersonal appraisals and influence. The…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-10-03 Wenjun Mei , Noah E. Friedkin , Kyle Lewis , Francesco Bullo

The subject of study is a neural network with binary neurons, randomly diluted synapses and variable pattern activity. We look at the system with parallel updating using a probabilistic approach to solve the one step dynamics with one…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-31 Stefan Grosskinsky