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Dr Stefan Bucher, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge 
Wednesday 03 December 2025, 14:00-15:00
Information Constraints in Human Decision-Making: From Theory to Computation
- š¤ Speaker: Dr Stefan Bucher, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge š Website
- š Date & Time: Wednesday 03 December 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
- š Venue: MR5, CMS Pavilion A
Abstract
Rational inattention theory models human decision-making as an optimal information-processing problem akin to rateādistortion theory. This talk will motivate and introduce this framework, now a workhorse model of cognitive economics, which seeks a principled explanation of seemingly irrational behavior as arising from cognitive constraints on information processing. I will outline the basic problem and its known structural properties, then present a multi-attribute generalization based on the recently introduced multi-attribute Shannon entropy. The talk will discuss ongoing work with the goal of highlighting open computational challengesāparticularly how to solve these models at scaleāand will explore how ML methods may offer promising avenues for progress.
Series This talk is part of the Information Theory Seminar series.
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