Learning Structured Preferences
Author(s)
Bergen, Leon
Evans, Owain Rhys
Tenenbaum, Joshua B
Date Issued
November 2010
Journal
32nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society 2010
Publisher
Cognitive Science Society
Citation
Bergen, Leon et al. "Learning Structured Preferences." 32nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society 2010, August 11-14 2010, Portland, Oregon, USA, Cognitive Science Society, November 2010
Version
Author's final manuscript
Abstract
Learning the preferences of other people is crucial for predict-
ing future behavior. Both children and adults make inferences
about others’ preferences from sparse data and in situations
where the preferences have complex internal structures. We
present a computational model of learning structured prefer-
ences which integrates Bayesian inference and utility-based
models of preference from economics. We experimentally test
this model with adult participants, and compare the model to
alternative heuristic models.
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
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