5 papers
Meta-learning ecological priors from large language models explains human learning and decision making
Akshay K. Jagadish, Mirko Thalmann, Julian Coda-Forno +2
Human cognition is profoundly shaped by the environments in which it unfolds. Yet, it remains an open question whether learning and decision making can be explained as a principled…
Post-training makes large language models less human-like
Marcel Binz, Elif Akata, Abdullah Almaatouq +76
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used as surrogates for human participants, but it remains unclear which models best capture human behavior and why. To address this, w…
Measuring What AI Systems Might Do: Towards A Measurement Science in AI
Konstantinos Voudouris, Mirko Thalmann, Alex Kipnis +2
Scientists, policy-makers, business leaders, and members of the public care about what modern artificial intelligence systems are disposed to do. Yet terms such as capabilities, pr…
Building, Reusing, and Generalizing Abstract Representations from Concrete Sequences
Shuchen Wu, Mirko Thalmann, Peter Dayan +2
Humans excel at learning abstract patterns across different sequences, filtering out irrelevant details, and transferring these generalized concepts to new sequences. In contrast,…
Centaur: a foundation model of human cognition
Marcel Binz, Elif Akata, Matthias Bethge +37
Establishing a unified theory of cognition has been a major goal of psychology. While there have been previous attempts to instantiate such theories by building computational model…