← Search

Noemi Elteto

3 accepted papers

2025

Discovering Symbolic Cognitive Models from Human and Animal Behavior

ICML 2025spotlight

Symbolic models play a key role in cognitive science, expressing computationally precise hypotheses about how the brain implements a cognitive process. Identifying an appropriate model typically requires a great deal of effort and ingenuity on the part of a human scientist. Here, we adapt FunSearch…

Cited by 1SourcePDFScholar
2023

Reinforcement Learning with Simple Sequence Priors

NeurIPS 2023poster

In reinforcement learning (RL), simplicity is typically quantified on an action-by-action basis -- but this timescale ignores temporal regularities, like repetitions, often present in sequential strategies. We therefore propose an RL algorithm that learns to solve tasks with sequences of actions tha…

Cited by 26SourcePDFScholar
2022

Learning Structure from the Ground up---Hierarchical Representation Learning by Chunking

NeurIPS 2022accept

From learning to play the piano to speaking a new language, reusing and recombining previously acquired representations enables us to master complex skills and easily adapt to new environments. Inspired by the Gestalt principle of \textit{grouping by proximity} and theories of chunking in cognitive…

Cited by 17SourcePDFScholar