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Social learning, copying other's behavior without actual experience, offers acost-effective means of knowledge acquisition. However, it raises thefundamental question of which individuals have reliable information: successfulindividuals versus the majority. The former and the latter are knownrespectively as success-based and conformist social learning strategies. Weshow here that while the success-based strategy fully exploits the benignenvironment of low uncertainly, it fails in uncertain environments. On theother hand, the conformist strategy can effectively mitigate this adverseeffect. Based on these findings, we hypothesized that meta-control ofindividual and social learning strategies provides effective andsample-efficient learning in volatile and uncertain environments. Simulationson a set of environments with various levels of volatility and uncertaintyconfirmed our hypothesis. The results imply that meta-control of sociallearning affords agents the leverage to resolve environmental uncertainty withminimal exploration cost, by exploiting others' learning as an externalknowledge base.

Meta-control of social learning strategies