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A Computationally and Cognitively Plausible Model of Supervised and Unsupervised Learning

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Advances in Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems (BICS 2013)

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Both empirical and mathematical demonstrations of the importance of chance-corrected measures are discussed, and a new model of learning is proposed based on empirical psychological results on association learning. Two forms of this model are developed, the Informatron as a chance-corrected Perceptron, and AdaBook as a chance-corrected AdaBoost procedure. Computational results presented show chance correction facilitates learning.

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Powers, D.M.W. (2013). A Computationally and Cognitively Plausible Model of Supervised and Unsupervised Learning. In: Liu, D., Alippi, C., Zhao, D., Hussain, A. (eds) Advances in Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems. BICS 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 7888. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38786-9_17

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