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Learning How to Learn by Self-Tuning Reinforcement

Torsell, Christian and Barrett, Jeffrey A. (2024) Learning How to Learn by Self-Tuning Reinforcement. [Preprint]

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Humans and many animals are capable of learning and learning how to learn better. We are concerned here with one way that reinforcement learners might learn how to learn better. In an experiment described by Harry Harlow (1949), a group of rhesus monkeys learn a new way of learning in the context of a specific type of problem. We will consider how such agents might coevolve a new learning dynamics and new attendant saliences. To this end, we propose a self-tuning dynamics that illustrates one way that a reinforcement learner might acquire forms of learning that are well-suited to context-specific problems.


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Item Type: Preprint
Creators:
CreatorsEmailORCID
Torsell, Christianctorsell@uci.edu
Barrett, Jeffrey A.j.barrett@uci.edu
Subjects: Specific Sciences > Psychology > Comparative Psychology and Ethology
General Issues > Confirmation/Induction
Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science > Learning and Memory
Depositing User: Christian Torsell
Date Deposited: 20 Mar 2024 16:12
Last Modified: 20 Mar 2024 16:12
Item ID: 23199
Subjects: Specific Sciences > Psychology > Comparative Psychology and Ethology
General Issues > Confirmation/Induction
Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science > Learning and Memory
Date: 2024
URI: https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/23199

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