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Workshop: Information-Theoretic Principles in Cognitive Systems (InfoCog)
Balancing utility and cognitive cost in social representation
Max Taylor-Davies · Christopher G Lucas
Abstract:
To successfully navigate its environment, an agent must construct and maintain representations of the other agents that it encounters. Such representations are useful for many tasks, but they are not without cost. As a result, agents must make decisions regarding how much information they choose to represent about the agents in their environment. Using selective imitation as an example task, we motivate the problem of finding agent representations that optimally trade off between downstream utility and information cost, and illustrate two example approaches to resource-constrained social representation.
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