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Subjective functions

Samuel J. Gershman

The paper introduces the notion of a subjective function—a higher‑order, agent‑defined objective such as expected prediction error—and discusses how humans generate new goals and h…

cs.LG2026

Preemptive Solving of Future Problems: Multitask Preplay in Humans and Machines

Wilka Carvalho, Sam Hall-McMaster, Honglak Lee +1

Humans can pursue a near-infinite variety of tasks, but typically can only pursue a small number at the same time. We hypothesize that humans leverage experience on one task to pre…

cs.LG2026

Fast weight programming and linear transformers: from machine learning to neurobiology

Kazuki Irie, Samuel J. Gershman

Recent advances in artificial neural networks for machine learning, and language modeling in particular, have established a family of recurrent neural network (RNN) architectures t…

cs.LG2025

A Variational Manifold Embedding Framework for Nonlinear Dimensionality Reduction

John J. Vastola, Samuel J. Gershman, Kanaka Rajan

Dimensionality reduction algorithms like principal component analysis (PCA) are workhorses of machine learning and neuroscience, but each has well-known limitations. Variants of PC…

cs.LG2025

Gradient Descent as Loss Landscape Navigation: a Normative Framework for Deriving Learning Rules

John J. Vastola, Samuel J. Gershman, Kanaka Rajan

Learning rules -- prescriptions for updating model parameters to improve performance -- are typically assumed rather than derived. Why do some learning rules work better than other…

cs.LG2025

Blending Complementary Memory Systems in Hybrid Quadratic-Linear Transformers

Kazuki Irie, Morris Yau, Samuel J. Gershman

We develop hybrid memory architectures for general-purpose sequence processing neural networks, that combine key-value memory using softmax attention (KV-memory) with fast weight m…