Teaching and Learning in Uncertainty

• Published in: IEEE transactions on information theory Vol. 67; no. 1; pp. 598 - 615
• Main Authors: Jog, Varun, Loh, Po-Ling
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York IEEE 01.01.2021; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Analytical models; Communication; Computational modeling; Decoding; Education; Large deviations theory; Learning; Mathematical model; Noise measurement; Random variables; random walks; social learning; Strategy; Teachers; Teaching; Uncertainty

We investigate a simple model for social learning with two agents: a teacher and a student. The teacher's goal is to teach the student the state of the world; however, the teacher himself is not certain about the state of the world and needs to simultaneously learn this parameter and teach it t...