Prior symmetry, similarity-based reasoning, and endogenous categorization

DOI10.1016/J.JET.2010.08.006MaRDI QIDQ629323zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Marcin Pęski

Publication date 9 March 2011

Published in Journal of Economic Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jet.2010.08.006

zbMATH Keywords

categorizationdecision-makinginferenceinvariancemergingreasoning

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classification and discrimination; cluster analysis (statistical aspects) (62H30) Reasoning under uncertainty in the context of artificial intelligence (68T37) Decision theory (91B06) Clustering in the social and behavioral sciences (91C20)

Review text

The reviewed paper deals with a rational decision-making method consisting in the similarity-based clustering of the objects of interest. The author considers the problem of sequential learning regarding objects of incompletely known properties. Their unknown properties are estimated by means of analogy between the elements of particular clusters (called categories). Attention is mainly paid to the investigation of the considered environment whose elements are to be categorized, and the main results demonstrate the high importance of the concept of symmetry defined in the considered environment. It is shown the close relation between this symmetry and optimality of the categorization-based decision-making procedure of an inference problem. Optimality of the suggested procedure is illustrated by experimental observations.

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