4 papers
The collective statistical mechanical personality of a group
Sarah Marzen
We propose a mathematical framework for organizational psychology based on a Maximum Entropy model of a group's personalities. The Maximum Entropy model is then decimated to a sing…
New analytic formulae for memory and prediction functions in reservoir computers with time delays
Peyton Mullarkey, Sarah Marzen
Time delays increase the effective dimensionality of reservoirs, thus suggesting that time delays in reservoirs can enhance their performance, particularly their memory and predict…
Cognitive biases can move opinion dynamics from consensus to signatures of transient chaos
Emily Dong, Sarah Marzen
Interest in how democracies form consensus has increased recently, with statistical physics and economics approaches both suggesting that there is convergence to a fixed point in b…
Resource-rational reinforcement learning and sensorimotor causal states, and resource-rational maximiners
Sarah Marzen
We propose a new computational-level objective function for theoretical biology and theoretical neuroscience that combines: reinforcement learning, the study of learning with feedb…