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Uncertainty–guided learning with scaled prediction errors in the basal ganglia
To accurately predict rewards associated with states or actions, the variability of observations has to be taken into account. In particular, when the observations are noisy, the individual rewards should have less influence on tracking of average reward, and the estimate of the mean reward should b...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9182698/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35622863 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1009816 |
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author | Möller, Moritz Manohar, Sanjay Bogacz, Rafal |
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description | To accurately predict rewards associated with states or actions, the variability of observations has to be taken into account. In particular, when the observations are noisy, the individual rewards should have less influence on tracking of average reward, and the estimate of the mean reward should be updated to a smaller extent after each observation. However, it is not known how the magnitude of the observation noise might be tracked and used to control prediction updates in the brain reward system. Here, we introduce a new model that uses simple, tractable learning rules that track the mean and standard deviation of reward, and leverages prediction errors scaled by uncertainty as the central feedback signal. We show that the new model has an advantage over conventional reinforcement learning models in a value tracking task, and approaches a theoretic limit of performance provided by the Kalman filter. Further, we propose a possible biological implementation of the model in the basal ganglia circuit. In the proposed network, dopaminergic neurons encode reward prediction errors scaled by standard deviation of rewards. We show that such scaling may arise if the striatal neurons learn the standard deviation of rewards and modulate the activity of dopaminergic neurons. The model is consistent with experimental findings concerning dopamine prediction error scaling relative to reward magnitude, and with many features of striatal plasticity. Our results span across the levels of implementation, algorithm, and computation, and might have important implications for understanding the dopaminergic prediction error signal and its relation to adaptive and effective learning. |
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spelling | pubmed-91826982022-06-10 Uncertainty–guided learning with scaled prediction errors in the basal ganglia Möller, Moritz Manohar, Sanjay Bogacz, Rafal PLoS Comput Biol Research Article To accurately predict rewards associated with states or actions, the variability of observations has to be taken into account. In particular, when the observations are noisy, the individual rewards should have less influence on tracking of average reward, and the estimate of the mean reward should be updated to a smaller extent after each observation. However, it is not known how the magnitude of the observation noise might be tracked and used to control prediction updates in the brain reward system. Here, we introduce a new model that uses simple, tractable learning rules that track the mean and standard deviation of reward, and leverages prediction errors scaled by uncertainty as the central feedback signal. We show that the new model has an advantage over conventional reinforcement learning models in a value tracking task, and approaches a theoretic limit of performance provided by the Kalman filter. Further, we propose a possible biological implementation of the model in the basal ganglia circuit. In the proposed network, dopaminergic neurons encode reward prediction errors scaled by standard deviation of rewards. We show that such scaling may arise if the striatal neurons learn the standard deviation of rewards and modulate the activity of dopaminergic neurons. The model is consistent with experimental findings concerning dopamine prediction error scaling relative to reward magnitude, and with many features of striatal plasticity. Our results span across the levels of implementation, algorithm, and computation, and might have important implications for understanding the dopaminergic prediction error signal and its relation to adaptive and effective learning. Public Library of Science 2022-05-27 /pmc/articles/PMC9182698/ /pubmed/35622863 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1009816 Text en © 2022 Möller et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Möller, Moritz Manohar, Sanjay Bogacz, Rafal Uncertainty–guided learning with scaled prediction errors in the basal ganglia |
title | Uncertainty–guided learning with scaled prediction errors in the basal ganglia |
title_full | Uncertainty–guided learning with scaled prediction errors in the basal ganglia |
title_fullStr | Uncertainty–guided learning with scaled prediction errors in the basal ganglia |
title_full_unstemmed | Uncertainty–guided learning with scaled prediction errors in the basal ganglia |
title_short | Uncertainty–guided learning with scaled prediction errors in the basal ganglia |
title_sort | uncertainty–guided learning with scaled prediction errors in the basal ganglia |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9182698/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35622863 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1009816 |
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