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JOURNAL OF MATHEMATICAL PSYCHOLOGY
Volume 71, Issue -, Pages 1-6Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmp.2016.01.006
Keywords
Bayesian statistics; Q-learning; Parameter estimation; Model comparison
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- Center for Brains, Minds and Machines (CBMM) - NSF STC award [CCF-1231216]
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Computational models of reinforcement learning have played an important role in understanding learning and decision making behavior, as well as the neural mechanisms underlying these behaviors. However, fitting the parameters of these models can be challenging: the parameters are not identifiable, estimates are unreliable, and the fitted models may not have good predictive validity. Prior distributions on the parameters can help regularize estimates and to some extent deal with these challenges, but picking a good prior is itself challenging. This paper presents empirical priors for reinforcement learning models, showing that priors estimated from a relatively large dataset are more identifiable, more reliable, and have better predictive validity compared to model-fitting with uniform priors. (C) 2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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