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As AI adoption expands across human society, the problem of aligning AI models to match human preferences remains a grand challenge. Currently, the AI alignment field is deeply divided between behavioral and representational approaches,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Ben Y. Reis , William La Cava

We consider an epidemiological model that includes waning and boosting of immunity. Assuming that repeated exposure to the pathogen fully restores immunity, we derive an SIRS-type model with discrete and distributed delays. First we prove…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-06-14 Maria Vittoria Barbarossa , Monika Polner , Gergely Röst

Inspired from human cognition, machine learning systems are gradually revealing advantages of sparser and more modular architectures. Recent work demonstrates that not only do some modular architectures generalize well, but they also lead…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Sarthak Mittal , Yoshua Bengio , Guillaume Lajoie

The spread of infectious disease and the evolution of antigenically distinct strains are often modeled separately, despite strong feedbacks mediated by host immune memory and heterogeneous contacts. To tackle this challenging problem, we…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2026-04-01 Davide Zanchetta , Vittoria Bettio , Sandro Azaele , Manlio De Domenico

This paper investigates an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) aided cooperative communication network, where the IRS exploits large reflecting elements to proactively steer the incident radio-frequency wave towards destination terminals…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-21 Yulan Gao , Chao Yong , Zehui Xiong , Dusit Niyato , Yue Xiao , Jun Zhao

The Iterated Immediate Snapshot model (IIS), due to its elegant geometrical representation, has become standard for applying topological reasoning to distributed computing. Its modular structure makes it easier to analyze than the more…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-05-21 Zohir Bouzid , Eli Gafni , Petr Kuznetsov

Mutual Coupling (MC) emerges as an inherent feature in Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs), particularly, when they are fabricated with sub-wavelength inter-element spacing. Hence, any physically-consistent model of the RIS operation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Dilki Wijekoon , Amine Mezghani , George C. Alexandropoulos , Ekram Hossain

Biological and artificial networks routinely make reliable distinctions between similar inputs, and the rules for making these distinctions are learned. In some ways, self/nonself discrimination in the immune system is similar, being both…

In previous work, we developed the scaled SIS process, which models the dynamics of SIS epidemics over networks. With the scaled SIS process, we can consider networks that are finite-sized and of arbitrary topology (i.e., we are not…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-10-10 June Zhang , José M. F. Moura

Biological lifeforms can heal, grow, adapt, and reproduce -- abilities essential for sustained survival and development. In contrast, robots today are primarily monolithic machines with limited ability to self-repair, physically develop, or…

This paper addresses the challenge of network synchronization under limited communication, involving heterogeneous agents with different dynamics and various network topologies, to achieve consensus. We investigate the distributed adaptive…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-08 Moh. Kamalul Wafi , Milad Siami

Modern cyber-physical systems (CPS), such as our energy infrastructure, are becoming increasingly complex: An ever-higher share of Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based technologies use the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) facet…

In many epidemiological and ecological contexts, there is a trade-off between infections and interactions. This arises because the links between individuals capable of spreading infections are also often associated with beneficial…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-04-04 Bunlang Thatchai , Christopher E. Overton , Thomas House

A novel reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided hybrid reflection/transmitter design is proposed for achieving information exchange in cross-media communications. In pursuit of the balance between energy efficiency and low-cost…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-08 Mingming Wu , Yue Xiao , Yulan Gao , Ming Xiao

Diffusion of information in networks is at the core of many problems in AI. Common examples include the spread of ideas and rumors as well as marketing campaigns. Typically, information diffuses at a non-linear rate, for example, if markets…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-12-04 Tobias Friedrich , Andreas Göbel , Nicolas Klodt , Martin S. Krejca , Marcus Pappik

Many emerging Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications require on-demand provisioning of large-scale computing, which can only be enabled by leveraging distributed computing services interconnected through networking. To address such…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Ruikun Wang , Jiawei Zhang , Qiaolun Zhang , Bojun Zhang , Zhiqun Gu , Aryanaz Attarpour , Yuefeng Ji , Massimo Tornatore

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is a key technology to control the communication environment in future wireless networks. Recently, beyond diagonal RIS (BD-RIS) emerged as a generalization of RIS achieving larger coverage through…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Matteo Nerini , Golsa Ghiaasi , Bruno Clerckx

The concept of autonomy is fundamental for understanding biological organization and the evolutionary transitions of living systems. Understanding how a system constitutes itself as an individual, cohesive, self-organized entity is a…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2019-02-07 Miguel Aguilera , Ezequiel Di Paolo

Because combat environments change over time and technology upgrades are widespread for ground vehicles, a large number of vehicles and equipment become quickly obsolete. A possible solution for the U.S. Army is to develop fleets of modular…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-02-04 Xingyu Li , Bogdan I. Epureanu

Cell-free networks are regarded as a promising technology to meet higher rate requirements for beyond fifth-generation (5G) communications. Most works on cell-free networks focus on either fully centralized beamforming to maximally enhance…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-27 Pengfei Ni , Ming Li , Rang Liu , Qian Liu