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Temporal smoothness constraints on efficient neurobiological codes imply temporal specialization
John J. Vastola, Samuel J. Gershman
Neurobiological circuits may be energy efficient in part because there is a division of labor: different subsystems compute or represent different things. In light of this, it is i…
Effectiveness of Curriculum Learning Depends on Reward Sparsity and Competing Optima
John J. Vastola, Ann Huang, Satpreet H. Singh +2
While animals and people tend to learn a task more quickly and reliably when they first train on simpler versions of it, curriculum learning's effectiveness in artificial settings…
Solvable models of learning to pursue a moving target
John J. Vastola, Kanaka Rajan
Agents tasked with intercepting a moving target must learn how to reach it, ideally as efficiently as possible. As observers of animal pursuit behavior have noticed, different stra…
Implications of hierarchical Markov models of behavior: on irreversibility, predictability, and dimensionality
John J. Vastola, Kanaka Rajan
The maturation of quantitative tools for studying the high-level structure of animal behavior, and especially tools which represent spontaneous behavior as a sequence of stereotype…