{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/predictive-representations-building-blocks-of","title":"Predictive representations: building blocks of intelligence","arxiv_id":"2402.06590","date":"2024-02-09","proceeding":null,"authors":["Wilka Carvalho","Momchil S. Tomov","William de Cothi","Caswell Barry","Samuel J. Gershman"],"abstract":"Adaptive behavior often requires predicting future events. The theory of reinforcement learning prescribes what kinds of predictive representations are useful and how to compute them. This paper integrates these theoretical ideas with work on cognition and neuroscience. We pay special attention to the successor representation (SR) and its generalizations, which have been widely applied both as engineering tools and models of brain function. This convergence suggests that particular kinds of predictive representations may function as versatile building blocks of intelligence.","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.06590v3","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2402.06590v3.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"predictive-representations-building-blocks-of","repo_url":"https://github.com/wcarvalho/jaxneurorl","is_official":0,"mentioned_in_paper":0,"mentioned_in_github":1,"framework":"jax","reach":{"status":"ok"}}],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"reinforcement-learning-2","task_name":"reinforcement-learning"}],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}