Preferential Attachment and the Search for Successful Theories.
Multiarm bandit problems have been used to model the selection of competing scientific theories by boundedly rational agents. In this article, I define a variable-arm bandit problem, which allows the set of scientific theories to vary over time. I show that Roth-Erev reinforcement learning, which so...
| Publicado en: | Philosophy of Science Vol. 80; no. 5; pp. 769 - 783 |
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