Emotional Preferences as Goal-Priority Regulation
A core question in decision-making for agents is whether the relative priorities of competing lower-level objectives can be determined by emotional preferences autonomously generated by higher-level goals, rather than being externally prespecified. Under changing external environments and evolving internal states, emotions play an important functional role in regulating the relative priorities of competing goals. Inspired by the goal-directed theory of emotion, this paper studies how such preference regulation can be computationally realized through reinforcement learning. We first propose a conception of emergent emotional preference: a high-level goal autonomously induces state-dependen...
| Authors | Shiqi Liu, Yihua Tan, Hu Fu et al. |
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| Primary category | cs.LG |
| Published | 27 August 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 27 August 2026 |
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