Social learning theory, developed by psychologist Albert Bandura, uses theories of classical and operant conditioning. But in this theory, the environment plays a large part in learning. We model ...

Mikhail Belkin, Daniel Hsu, Siyuan Ma, Soumik Mandal, Reconciling modern machine-learning practice and the classical bias–variance trade-off, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the ...

Our societies have come to be known as knowledge societies in which lifelong learning is becoming increasingly important. In this context, competences have become a much discussed topic. Many ...