arXiv:2607. 07753v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modelling psychological disorders in artificial agents offers both a testbed for computational psychiatry and a lens on the failure modes of affective control.
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The study investigates whether large language models (LLMs) exhibit reward valuation mechanisms analogous to human anhedonia by applying clinical tests designed for major depressive disorder. Researchers identified reward‑anticipatory units in state‑of‑the‑art AI models, showed that perturbing these units predicts Nucleus Accumbens activity, and caused the models to choose low‑effort, low‑reward tasks—mirroring human anhedonia. The findings suggest that specific reward‑valuation circuits in AI can functionally resemble those in humans, providing a mechanistic bridge between computational and neurobiological models of motivation.
arXiv:2609.22090v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: An LLM producing the response pattern associated with a human psychological effect is not the same claim as the LLM possessing that bias. We present Ps...
arXiv:2608. 05111v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In partially observable reinforcement learning, agents face a dual bottleneck: they must explore to encounter rewarding states and retain that experience in memory to optimize their policies.
arXiv:2606. 03238v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) makes large-scale post-training possible by replacing an underspecified human objective with learned and scalable proxies.
arXiv:2607. 12823v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Interaction with AI agents has become one of the most frequent activities of everyday digital life.
arXiv:2606. 18963v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study online reward-punishment learning when the environment provides no scalar reward or evaluative label.