Alison Gopnik C

Empowerment Gain as Causal Learning, Causal Learning as Empowerment Gain: A Bridge between Bayesian Causal Hypothesis Testing and Reinforcement Learning

Abstract Cognitive scientists have applied advances in our formal understanding of causation in philosophy and computer science, particularly within the Causal Bayes Net formalism, to understand human causal learning. In parallel, reinforcement learning (RL) researchers have developed the idea of an intrinsic reward si...