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SUBMITTER: Wilson RC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6831579 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wilson Robert C RC Shenhav Amitai A Straccia Mark M Cohen Jonathan D JD
Nature communications 20191105 1
Researchers and educators have long wrestled with the question of how best to teach their clients be they humans, non-human animals or machines. Here, we examine the role of a single variable, the difficulty of training, on the rate of learning. In many situations we find that there is a sweet spot in which training is neither too easy nor too hard, and where learning progresses most quickly. We derive conditions for this sweet spot for a broad class of learning algorithms in the context of bina ...[more]