Jacques Pesnot Lerousseau
@jacquespesnot.bsky.social
Postdoctoral researcher at ILCB (Aix-Marseille Université). Computational and neural mechanisms of human learning.
@summerfieldlab.bsky.social and I are very happy to share this paper! Building on work by @scychan.bsky.social, we show that how people learn depends on the distribution of examples they see, and changes in a way that’s very similar to transformer models.
In this Article, @jacquespesnot.bsky.social and @summerfieldlab.bsky.social compare humans to
transformer networks in a task designed to distinguish "in-weights" and "in-context" learning processes.
transformer networks in a task designed to distinguish "in-weights" and "in-context" learning processes.
Shared sensitivity to data distribution during learning in humans and transformer networks - Nature Human Behaviour
Pesnot Lerousseau and Summerfield compare humans to transformer neural networks in a learning task designed to distinguish ‘in-weights’ and ‘in-context’ learning processes.
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January 6, 2026 at 11:16 AM
@summerfieldlab.bsky.social and I are very happy to share this paper! Building on work by @scychan.bsky.social, we show that how people learn depends on the distribution of examples they see, and changes in a way that’s very similar to transformer models.