Technical Note: \cal Q-Learning
Machine Learning
Imitation or something simpler? modeling simple mechanisms for social information processing
Imitation in animals and artifacts
Egrets of a feather flock together
Artificial Life
Autonomous Parsing of Behavior in a Multi-agent Setting
ICAISC '08 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing
A Computational Model of Social-Learning Mechanisms
Adaptive Behavior - Animals, Animats, Software Agents, Robots, Adaptive Systems
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Social learning can be adaptive, but little is known about the underlying mechanisms. Many researchers have focused on imitation but this may have led to simpler mechanisms being underestimated. We demonstrate in simulation that imitative learning is not always the best strategy for a group-living animal, and that the effectiveness of any such strategy will depend on details of the environment and the animal's lifestyle. We show that observations of behavioural convergence or "traditions" might suggest effective social learning, but are meaningless considered alone.