arXiv:2503.21704cs.LGcs.CL2025-03

用表示学习捕捉个体差异,提升决策预测准确率。

Learning to Represent Individual Differences for Choice Decision Making

  • 从行为实验数据中学习个体嵌入,融合结构化与非结构化信息。
  • 加入个体表示的学习模型显著优于无表示学习的模型。
  • 适合个性化决策系统、心理学研究及隐私敏感场景应用。

人类决策难以预测,因其受多种复杂因素影响,且个体间决策过程差异显著。传统方法(如问卷、行为模型)常将个体差异压缩至低维,且不针对具体预测任务。本文提出利用表示学习从行为实验数据中刻画个体差异,可融合人口统计等结构化信息与自由文本等非结构化信息。在一项经济决策任务中,使用表示学习的模型持续优于无表示学习的基线模型,并超越了经典的理论驱动行为模型。结果表明,表示学习为个性化建模提供了灵活而有效的工具。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Human decision making can be challenging to predict because decisions are affected by a number of complex factors. Adding to this complexity, decision-making processes can differ considerably between individuals, and methods aimed at predicting human decisions need to take individual differences into account. Behavioral science offers methods by which to measure individual differences (e.g., questionnaires, behavioral models), but these are often narrowed down to low dimensions and not tailored to specific prediction tasks. This paper investigates the use of representation learning to measure individual differences from behavioral experiment data. Representation learning offers a flexible approach to create individual embeddings from data that are both structured (e.g., demographic information) and unstructured (e.g., free text), where the flexibility provides more options for individual difference measures for personalization, e.g., free text responses may allow for open-ended questions that are less privacy-sensitive. In the current paper we use representation learning to characterize individual differences in human performance on an economic decision-making task. We demonstrate that models using representation learning to capture individual differences consistently improve decision predictions over models without representation learning, and even outperform well-known theory-based behavioral models used in these environments. Our results propose that representation learning offers a useful and flexible tool to capture individual differences.

决策建模表示学习个性化

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