{"pk":28104,"title":"Probabilistic Formulation of the Take The Best Heuristic","subtitle":null,"abstract":"The framework of cognitively bounded rationality treats prob-lem solving as fundamentally rational, but emphasises that itis constrained by cognitive architecture and the task environ-ment. This paper investigates a simple decision making heuris-tic, Take The Best (TTB), within that framework. We formu-late TTB as a likelihood-based probabilistic model, where thedecision strategy arises by probabilistic inference based on thetraining data and the model constraints. The strengths of theprobabilistic formulation, in addition to providing a boundedrational account of the learning of the heuristic, include naturalextensibility with additional cognitively plausible constraintsand prior information, and the possibility to embed the heuris-tic as a subpart of a larger probabilistic model. We extend themodel to learn cue discrimination thresholds for continuous-valued cues and experiment with using the model to accountfor biased preference feedback from a bounded rational agentin a simulated interactive machine learning task.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"Bayesian models; bounded rationality; heuristics;Take The Best"}],"section":"Publication-based-Talks","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3r0053q9","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Tomi","middle_name":"","last_name":"Peltola","name_suffix":"","institution":"Aalto University","department":""},{"first_name":"Jussi","middle_name":"","last_name":"Jokinen","name_suffix":"","institution":"Aalto University","department":""},{"first_name":"Samuel","middle_name":"","last_name":"Kaski","name_suffix":"","institution":"Aalto University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2018-01-01T13:00:00-05:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/28104/galley/17755/download/"}]}