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SUBMITTER: Tong WL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC10723287 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Tong William L WL Iyer Anisha A Murthy Venkatesh N VN Reddy Gautam G
bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology 20231205
Dogs and laboratory mice are commonly trained to perform complex tasks by guiding them through a curriculum of simpler tasks ('shaping'). What are the principles behind effective shaping strategies? Here, we propose a machine learning framework for shaping animal behavior, where an autonomous teacher agent decides its student's task based on the student's transcript of successes and failures on previously assigned tasks. Using autonomous teachers that plan a curriculum in a common sequence learn ...[more]