A common pitfall of current reinforcement learning agents implemented in computational models is in their inadaptability postoptimization. Najarro and Risi [Najarro E, Risi S. . 2020: 20719-20731, 2020] demonstrate how such adaptability may be salvaged in artificial feed-forward networks by optimizing coefficients of classic Hebbian rules to dynamically control the networks' weights instead of optimizing the weights directly. Although such models fail to capture many important neurophysiological details, allying the fields of neuroscience and artificial intelligence in this way bears many fruits for both fields, especially when computational models engage with topics with a rich history in neuroscience such as Hebbian plasticity.
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