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Robots need models of human behavior for both inferring human goals and preferences, and predicting what people will do. A common model is the Boltzmann noisily-rational decision model, which assumes people approximately optimize a reward…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Andreea Bobu , Dexter R. R. Scobee , Jaime F. Fisac , S. Shankar Sastry , Anca D. Dragan

In exploring the simulation of human rhythmic perception and synchronization capabilities, this study introduces a computational model inspired by the physical and biological processes underlying rhythm processing. Utilizing a reservoir…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-03-28 Zhongju Yuan , Wannes Van Ransbeeck , Geraint Wiggins , Dick Botteldooren

By planning through a learned dynamics model, model-based reinforcement learning (MBRL) offers the prospect of good performance with little environment interaction. However, it is common in practice for the learned model to be inaccurate,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Behzad Haghgoo , Allan Zhou , Archit Sharma , Chelsea Finn

This paper introduces a paradigm shift by viewing the task of affect modeling as a reinforcement learning (RL) process. According to the proposed paradigm, RL agents learn a policy (i.e. affective interaction) by attempting to maximize a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-29 Matthew Barthet , Ahmed Khalifa , Antonios Liapis , Georgios N. Yannakakis

Scaling model capacity has been vital in the success of deep learning. For a typical network, necessary compute resources and training time grow dramatically with model size. Conditional computation is a promising way to increase the number…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-14 Louis Kirsch , Julius Kunze , David Barber

Over the past decades, research in cognitive and affective neuroscience has emphasized that emotion is crucial for human intelligence and in fact inseparable from cognition. Concurrently, there has been growing interest in simulating and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Marwen Belkaid , Luiz Pessoa

Spiking neural networks play an important role in brain-like neuromorphic computations and in studying working mechanisms of neural circuits. One drawback of training a large scale spiking neural network is that updating all weights is…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2024-08-15 Zhanghan Lin , Haiping Huang

Predictive models are highly advanced in understanding the mechanisms of brain function. Recent advances in machine learning further underscore the power of prediction for optimal representation in learning. However, there remains a gap in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Xingsi Dong , Xiangyuan Peng , Si Wu

As a paradigm that delves into the deep seated drivers of user behavior, motivation-based recommendation systems have emerged as a prominent research direction in the field of personalized information retrieval. Unlike traditional…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Yicheng Di

Deep neural networks have shown superior performance in many regimes to remember familiar patterns with large amounts of data. However, the standard supervised deep learning paradigm is still limited when facing the need to learn new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-16 Jing Shi , Jiaming Xu , Yiqun Yao , Bo Xu

Can large language model (LLM) agents reproduce the complex social dynamics that characterize human online behavior -- shaped by homophily, reciprocity, and social validation -- and what memory and learning mechanisms enable such dynamics…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Philipp J. Schneider , Lin Tian , Marian-Andrei Rizoiu

Conceptual reasoning, the ability to reason in abstract and high-level perspectives, is key to generalization in human cognition. However, limited study has been done on large language models' capability to perform conceptual reasoning. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Ben Zhou , Hongming Zhang , Sihao Chen , Dian Yu , Hongwei Wang , Baolin Peng , Dan Roth , Dong Yu

We introduce DualMind, a generalist agent designed to tackle various decision-making tasks that addresses challenges posed by current methods, such as overfitting behaviors and dependence on task-specific fine-tuning. DualMind uses a novel…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Yao Wei , Yanchao Sun , Ruijie Zheng , Sai Vemprala , Rogerio Bonatti , Shuhang Chen , Ratnesh Madaan , Zhongjie Ba , Ashish Kapoor , Shuang Ma

Navigation is crucial for animal behavior and is assumed to require an internal representation of the external environment, termed a cognitive map. The precise form of this representation is often considered to be a metric representation of…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2020-02-10 Tie Xu , Omri Barak

Deep learning models suffer from catastrophic forgetting of the classes in the older phases as they get trained on the classes introduced in the new phase in the class-incremental learning setting. In this work, we show that the effect of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-24 Mohammed Asad Karim , Indu Joshi , Pratik Mazumder , Pravendra Singh

A methodology that seeks to enhance model prediction performance is presented. The method involves generating multiple auxiliary models that capture relationships between attributes as a function of each other. Such information serves to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Francisco Javier Lobo-Cabrera

There are various models proposed on how knowledge is generated in the human brain including the semantic networks model. Although this model has been widely studied and even computational models are presented, but, due to various limits…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Jamshid Ghasimi , Nazanin Movarraei

A popular theory of perceptual processing holds that the brain learns both a generative model of the world and a paired recognition model using variational Bayesian inference. Most hypotheses of how the brain might learn these models assume…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2021-06-01 Ari S. Benjamin , Konrad P. Kording

Affective computing - combining sensor technology, machine learning, and psychology - have been studied for over three decades and is employed in AI-powered technologies to enhance emotional awareness in AI systems, and detect symptoms of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-21 Anders Rolighed Larsen , Sneha Das , Nicole Nadine Lønfeldt , Paula Petcu , Line Clemmensen

We introduce a class of learning problems where the agent is presented with a series of tasks. Intuitively, if there is relation among those tasks, then the information gained during execution of one task has value for the execution of…

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