Thinking outside the canon, and finding the gritty and the beautiful, within it. By Joshua Barone and Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim JOSHUA BARONE Few art forms are as burdened by canons as classical ...

Operant conditioning, sometimes called instrumental conditioning or Skinnerian conditioning, is a method of learning that uses rewards and punishment to modify behavior. Through operant conditioning, ...

Key takeaway: When learning over discrete prompts used in modern vision-language models, classical PAC-Bayes bounds turn out to be remarkably tight — significantly tighter than prior PAC-Bayes results ...

Classical conditioning was first discovered by Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov in the early 1900s. Pavlov wasn’t initially studying learning at all – he was researching digestion in dogs (a line of ...

Deep neural networks’ seemingly anomalous generalization behaviors, benign overfitting, double descent, and successful overparametrization are neither unique to neural networks nor inherently ...

Prior work suggests SFT risks overfitting to training data, making models brittle when faced with new task variants. For example, an SFT-tuned model might excel at arithmetic problems using specific ...

Summary: Classical and operant conditioning compete in the brain, preventing simultaneous learning of conflicting actions. Using fruit flies, researchers demonstrated that attempting to teach both ...

Researchers at Tel Aviv University have discovered that the brain cannot learn simultaneously through both classical conditioning and operant conditioning. In fact, the brain actively prevents the ...