Transitive reasoning as linear classification
Vincent P. Ferrera, Samuel Lippl, Kenneth Kay, Fabian Munoz, Yuhao Jin, Greg Jensen, Terrace Herbert
This paper reframes transitive inference as a linear classification problem using least-squares estimation, showing it can reproduce key empirical features of TI without explicit assumptions about transitivity.
bioRxiv · Aug 10, 2026 · PreprintNeuroscience