2 papers
cs.AI2026
Calculating Mutual Information between a Reward Maximizer and its Environment
Alfred Harwood, Jose Faustino, Alex Altair
An important question in the field of AI is the extent to which successful behaviour requires an internal representation of the world. In this work, we quantify the amount of infor…
cs.AI2023
A Comparison of Decision Algorithms on Newcomblike Problems
Alex Altair
When formulated using Bayesian networks, two standard decision algorithms (Evidential Decision Theory and Causal Decision Theory) can be shown to fail systematically when faced wit…