Topic: 0-shot learning

One of humans’ most astonishing cognitive feats is the dual ability to interpret linguistic instructions to perform novel tasks in very few practice trials and conversely produce a linguistic description for a task once it has been learned. In contrast, it typically takes thousands of trials for animals to learn even the simplest behavioral tasks. To explore the neural mechanisms that underpin these remarkable abilities, we trained recurrent neural networks to perform a set of common psychophysical tasks simultaneously with task type information provided by the output of a pre-trained transf