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Meta-learned models of cognition

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 November 2023

Marcel Binz Open the ORCID record for Marcel Binz [Opens in a new window] ,
Ishita Dasgupta ,
Akshay K. Jagadish ,
Matthew Botvinick ,
Jane X. Wang  and
Eric Schulz
Marcel Binz*
Affiliation:
Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany akshay.jagadish@tue.mpg.de eric.schulz@tue.mpg.de Helmholtz Institute for Human-Centered AI, Munich, Germany marcel.binz@helmholtz-munich.de
Ishita Dasgupta
Affiliation:
Google DeepMind, London, UK dasgupta.ishita@gmail.com botvinick@google.com wangjane@google.com
Akshay K. Jagadish
Affiliation:
Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany akshay.jagadish@tue.mpg.de eric.schulz@tue.mpg.de Helmholtz Institute for Human-Centered AI, Munich, Germany marcel.binz@helmholtz-munich.de
Matthew Botvinick
Affiliation:
Google DeepMind, London, UK dasgupta.ishita@gmail.com botvinick@google.com wangjane@google.com
Jane X. Wang
Affiliation:
Google DeepMind, London, UK dasgupta.ishita@gmail.com botvinick@google.com wangjane@google.com
Eric Schulz
Affiliation:
Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany akshay.jagadish@tue.mpg.de eric.schulz@tue.mpg.de Helmholtz Institute for Human-Centered AI, Munich, Germany marcel.binz@helmholtz-munich.de
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Corresponding author: Marcel Binz; Email: marcel.binz@helmholtz-munich.de
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Abstract

Psychologists and neuroscientists extensively rely on computational models for studying and analyzing the human mind. Traditionally, such computational models have been hand-designed by expert researchers. Two prominent examples are cognitive architectures and Bayesian models of cognition. Although the former requires the specification of a fixed set of computational structures and a definition of how these structures interact with each other, the latter necessitates the commitment to a particular prior and a likelihood function that – in combination with Bayes' rule – determine the model's behavior. In recent years, a new framework has established itself as a promising tool for building models of human cognition: the framework of meta-learning. In contrast to the previously mentioned model classes, meta-learned models acquire their inductive biases from experience, that is, by repeatedly interacting with an environment. However, a coherent research program around meta-learned models of cognition is still missing to date. The purpose of this article is to synthesize previous work in this field and establish such a research program. We accomplish this by pointing out that meta-learning can be used to construct Bayes-optimal learning algorithms, allowing us to draw strong connections to the rational analysis of cognition. We then discuss several advantages of the meta-learning framework over traditional methods and reexamine prior work in the context of these new insights.

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Bayesian inferencecognitive modelingmeta-learningneural networksrational analysis

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