Where Do Human Heuristics Come From?

02/20/2019
by   Marcel Binz, et al.
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Human decision-making deviates from the optimal solution, that maximizes cumulative rewards, in many situations. Here we approach this discrepancy from the perspective of bounded rationality and our goal is to provide a justification for such seemingly sub-optimal strategies. More specifically we investigate the hypothesis, that humans do not know optimal decision-making algorithms in advance, but instead employ a learned, resource-bounded approximation. The idea is formalized through combining a recently proposed meta-learning model based on Recurrent Neural Networks with a resource-bounded objective. The resulting approach is closely connected to variational inference and the Minimum Description Length principle. Empirical evidence is obtained from a two-armed bandit task. Here we observe patterns in our family of models that resemble differences between individual human participants.

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