@inproceedings{
taylor-davies2023balancing,
title={Balancing utility and cognitive cost in social representation},
author={Max Taylor-Davies and Christopher Lucas},
booktitle={NeurIPS 2023 workshop: Information-Theoretic Principles in Cognitive Systems},
year={2023},
url={https://openreview.net/forum?id=v6UKrdxk5n}
}
To successfully navigate its environment, an agent must construct and maintain representations of the other agents that it encounters. Such representations are useful for many tasks, but they are not without cost. As a result, agents must make decisions regarding how much information they choose to store about the agents in their environment. Using selective social learning as an example task, we motivate the problem of finding agent representations that optimally trade off between downstream utility and information cost, and illustrate two example approaches to resource-constrained social representation.
Balancing utility and cognitive cost in social representation
Max Taylor-Davies Christopher Lucas