Learning a Vector-Symbolic Model for Socio-Cultural Tasks
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arXiv:2608.02807v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: How can we better represent the impact of sociocultural structures on decision making in computational cognitive models? Modeling this impact requires traversing multiple levels of semantic representation, however it is not immediately clear to a modeler which levels of representation are most salient to a given situation. Though large language models and cognitively grounded corpus models can represent broad semantic associations through co-occurences, the role of self representations in memory should be accounted for to determine how cultural
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2608.02807v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: How can we better represent the impact of sociocultural structures on decision making in computational cognitive models?
- Modeling this impact requires traversing multiple levels of semantic representation, however it is not immediately clear to a modeler which levels of representation are most salient to a given situation.
- Though large language models and cognitively grounded corpus models can represent broad semantic associations through co-occurences, the role of self representations in memory should be accounted for to determine how cultural
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