Neural utility functions

P Jenkins, A Farag, JS Jenkins, H Yao… - Proceedings of the AAAI …, 2021 - ojs.aaai.org
… a neural network so that they are more consistent with utility theory, … We demonstrate that
Neural Utility Functions can recover … item representations from a shallow Neural Utility Function. …

Deep neural networks for choice analysis: Architecture design with alternative-specific utility functions

S Wang, B Mo, J Zhao - Transportation Research Part C: Emerging …, 2020 - Elsevier
… (F-DNN) in which the utility of each alternative is the function of all the alternative-specific …
probability functions. Overall, the behavioral knowledge of alternative-specific utility function

[HTML][HTML] Application of radial basis function and generalized regression neural networks in non-linear utility function specification for travel mode choice modelling

HB Celikoglu - Mathematical and Computer Modelling, 2006 - Elsevier
… logit model with aggregate utility function is preferred in this … resultant predictions of NNs for
utility are substituted in the logit … We had another comparison by calibrating the utility function

Neural Acceleration of Graph Based Utility Functions for Sparse Matrices

JD Booth, GS Bolet - IEEE Access, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… point for applying models for neural acceleration to graph-… neural networks, and graph
neural networks. We demonstrate these techniques on the problem related to the utility functions

Different methods to define utility functions yield similar results but engage different neural processes

M Heldmann, B Vogt, HJ Heinze… - Frontiers in Behavioral …, 2009 - frontiersin.org
… method determining a subject’s utility function is not available. We investigated two … utility
functions by using response-locked event-related potentials in order to assess their neural

From local utility to neural networks

S Ke, C Zhao - Journal of Mathematical Economics, 2024 - Elsevier
… The local linearity property of the utility function that we derive from our second and stronger
notion of local linearity is that the utility function is locally exactly linear almost everywhere. …

On the neural computation of utility

P Shizgal, K Conover - Current Directions in Psychological …, 1996 - journals.sagepub.com
… By so doing, we address the function of the underlying neural circuitry and the question of …
on a neural system that determines goal selection by signaling the utility of competing goals. …

Ecological expected utility and the mythical neural code

J Feldman - Cognitive neurodynamics, 2010 - Springer
… are the core of a utility function that constrains neural computation. For advanced social …
Neural signaling evolved to serve all these functions, but the range of basic mechanisms …

Physiological utility theory and the neuroeconomics of choice

PW Glimcher, MC Dorris, HM Bayer - Games and economic behavior, 2005 - Elsevier
… of this paper: the neural architecture may indeed compute … we had assumed a linear utility
function and were able to thus … incorporating a more realistic utility function and adding to that …

Why would nature give individuals utility functions?

AJ Robson - Journal of Political Economy, 2001 - journals.uchicago.edu
… the expected utility criterion. On the one hand, if individuals possess a utility function stemming
from … Embedding such a utility function in a simple rule of thumb involving no beliefs about …