Does Reasoning Enhance Learning?


Autoria(s): Vriend, Nicolaas J.
Contribuinte(s)

Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Departament d'Economia i Empresa

Data(s)

10/07/2013

Resumo

Utilizing the well-known Ultimatum Game, this note presents the following phenomenon. If we start with simple stimulus-response agents, learning through naive reinforcement, and then grant them some introspective capabilities, we get outcomes that are not closer but farther away from the fully introspective game-theoretic approach. The cause of this is the following: there is an asymmetry in the information that agents can deduce from their experience, and this leads to a bias in their learning process.

Identificador

http://hdl.handle.net/2072/214212

Idioma(s)

eng

Direitos

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Palavras-Chave #Ultimatum game, game theory, reasoning, reinforcement learning
Tipo

info:eu-repo/semantics/workingPaper