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    "pk": 27881,
    "title": "A Rational Distributed Process-level Account of Independence Judgment",
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    "abstract": "It is inconceivable how chaotic the world would look to hu-mans, faced with innumerable decisions a day to be made un-der uncertainty, had they been lacking the capacity to distin-guish the relevant from the irrelevant—a capacity which com-putationally amounts to handling probabilistic independencerelations. The highly parallel and distributed computationalmachinery of the brain suggests that a satisfying process-levelaccount of human independence judgment should also mimicthese features. In this work, we present the first rational, dis-tributed, message-passing, process-level account of indepen-dence judgment, called D∗. Interestingly, D∗ shows a curi-ous, but normatively justified tendency for quick detection ofdependencies, whenever they hold. Furthermore, D∗ outper-forms all the previously proposed algorithms in the AI litera-ture in terms of worst-case running time, and a salient aspectof it is supported by recent work in neuroscience investigatingpossible implementations of Bayes nets at the neural level. D∗exemplifies how the pursuit of cognitive plausibility can leadto the discovery of state-of-the-art algorithms with appealingproperties, and its simplicity makes D∗ potentially a good can-didate as a teaching tool.",
    "language": "eng",
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        "short_name": "",
        "text": null,
        "url": ""
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Ratinoal process models"
        },
        {
            "word": "Distributed computing"
        },
        {
            "word": "Probabilistic independence judgment"
        },
        {
            "word": "Pearl's d-separation"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Publication-based-Talks",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/529609rz",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Ardavan",
            "middle_name": "S",
            "last_name": "Nobandegani",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "McGill University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Ioannis",
            "middle_name": "N",
            "last_name": "Psaromiligkos",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "McGill University",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2018-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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