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Sixing Chen

@sixingchen.bsky.social
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PhD student at NYU

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Sixing Chen @sixingchen.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
And it captures human neural dynamics associated with step-by-step mental simulation.
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Sixing Chen @sixingchen.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
In a multi-step planning task, the model learns a planning algorithm that replicates key signatures of human fixations.
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Sixing Chen @sixingchen.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
It also reproduces neural dynamics observed in macaque orbitofrontal cortex.
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Sixing Chen @sixingchen.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
In a simple choice task, the model approximates the algorithms and representations of optimal symbolic models and captures human fixations.
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Sixing Chen @sixingchen.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Our approach: we take a meta-RL algorithm recently proposed as a model of PFC, and train it to select not just physical actions, but also mental actions—internal computations that leave the environment unchanged but generate decision-relevant information.
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Sixing Chen @sixingchen.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Meta-reasoning poses computation selection as a resource-rational process. But two challenges remain: (1) the optimal strategy is notoriously hard to solve, and (2) the underlying representations have to be hand-specified and symbolic.
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Sixing Chen @sixingchen.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
And it captures human neural dynamics associated with step-by-step mental simulation.
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Sixing Chen @sixingchen.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
In a multi-step planning task, the model learns a planning algorithm that replicates key signatures of human fixations.
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Sixing Chen @sixingchen.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
It also reproduces neural dynamics observed in macaque orbitofrontal cortex.
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Sixing Chen @sixingchen.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
In a simple choice task, the model approximates the algorithms and representations of optimal symbolic models and captures human fixations.
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Sixing Chen @sixingchen.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Our approach: we take a meta-RL algorithm recently proposed as a model of PFC, and train it to select not just physical actions, but also mental actions—internal computations that leave the environment unchanged but generate decision-relevant information.
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Sixing Chen @sixingchen.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Meta-reasoning poses computation selection as a resource-rational process. But two challenges remain: (1) the optimal strategy is notoriously hard to solve, and (2) the underlying representations have to be hand-specified and symbolic.
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