Mandana Samiei

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PhD candidate at McGill and Mila (Quebec AI Institute) w/ Blake Richards and Doina Precup. Interested in Reinforcement Learning, Continual Learning and Human Cognition. Based in Montreal. 🇨🇦

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Two new preprints from the lab, First up, causal exploration in humans and LLM's. arxiv.org Human Adults and LLMs as Scientists: Who Benefits from Active Exploration?

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We recently investigated how humans and AI reason through causal rules: arxiv.org/abs/2606.06464 Accepted at #CogSci2026. We gave adults and LLMs agency to actively experiment using a Blicket causal game, breaking down their process into the iterative loop shown in the followi…

Human Adults and LLMs as Scientists: Who Benefits from Active Exploration? arxiv.org
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These parallels led us to a broader point: Declarative memory may lie along a continuous spectrum of abstraction: Episodic → autobiographical → semantic → schematic Read here: www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

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