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Hebbian learning is a biological principle that intuitively describes how neurons adapt their connections through repeated stimuli. However, when applied to machine learning, it suffers serious issues due to the unconstrained updates of the…

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A visual system has to learn both which features to extract from images and how to group locations into (proto-)objects. Those two aspects are usually dealt with separately, although predictability is discussed as a cue for both. To…

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Due to common architecture designs, symmetries exist extensively in contemporary neural networks. In this work, we unveil the importance of the loss function symmetries in affecting, if not deciding, the learning behavior of machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Liu Ziyin

Spontaneous symmetry breaking originats in quantum mechanical measurement of the relevant observable defining the physical situation, order parameter is the average of this observable. A modification is made on the random-phase postulate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-02-03 Yu Shi

We discuss spontaneously broken quantum field theories with a continuous symmetry group via the constraint effective potential. Employing lattice simulations with constrained values of the order parameter, we demonstrate explicitly that the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2021-12-15 Gergely Endrődi , Tamás György Kovács , Gergely Markó

Brain-inspired machine intelligence research seeks to develop computational models that emulate the information processing and adaptability that distinguishes biological systems of neurons. This has led to the development of spiking neural…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Alexander Ororbia

Humans can learn several tasks in succession with minimal mutual interference but perform more poorly when trained on multiple tasks at once. The opposite is true for standard deep neural networks. Here, we propose novel computational…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2022-09-07 Timo Flesch , David G. Nagy , Andrew Saxe , Christopher Summerfield

Symmetry is present in nature and science. In image processing, kernels for spatial filtering possess some symmetry (e.g. Sobel operators, Gaussian, Laplacian). Convolutional layers in artificial feed-forward neural networks have typically…

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Social discrimination seems to be a persistent phenomenon in many cultures. It is important to understand the mechanisms that lead people to judge others by the group to which they belong, rather than individual qualities. It was recently…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2019-12-11 Gorm Gruner Jensen , Frederik Tischel , Stefan Bornholdt

Ultrafast laser irradiation can induce spontaneous self-organization of surfaces into dissipative structures with nanoscale reliefs. These surface patterns emerge from symmetry-breaking dynamical processes that occur in…

Effective analysis in neuroscience benefits significantly from robust conceptual frameworks. Traditional metrics of interbrain synchrony in social neuroscience typically depend on fixed, correlation-based approaches, restricting their…

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While current deep learning models achieve high performance by learning statistical correlations from vast datasets,which stands in stark contrast to human learning. They lack the flexibility of humans-particularly preverbal infants-to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Kyotaro Ushida , Takayuki Komatsu , Yoshiyuki Ohmura , Yasuo Kuniyoshi

The mechanism of spontaneous symmetry breaking in quantum systems is briefly reviewed, rectifying part of the standard wisdom on logical and mathematical grounds. The crucial role of the localization properties of the time evolution for the…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2012-01-27 F. Strocchi

Cortical populations of neurons develop sparse representations adapted to the statistics of the environment. While existing synaptic plasticity models reproduce some of the observed receptive-field properties, a major obstacle is the…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2022-09-16 Carlos Stein N. Brito , Wulfram Gerstner

Spontaneous symmetry breaking is related to the appearance of emergent phenomena, while a non-vanishing order parameter has been viewed as the sign of turning into such symmetry breaking phase. Recently, we have proposed a continuous…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-22 G. H. Dong , Y. N. Fang , C. P. Sun

The invariance of natural objects under perceptual changes is possibly encoded in the brain by symmetries in the graph of synaptic connections. The graph can be established via unsupervised learning in a biologically plausible process…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Helmut Linde

Many systems of interest exhibit nested emergent layers with their own rules and regularities, and our knowledge about them seems naturally organised around these levels. This paper proposes that this type of hierarchical emergence arises…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-12-02 Fernando E. Rosas

Symmetries play a central role in physics, organizing dynamics, constraining interactions, and determining the effective number of physical degrees of freedom. In parallel, modern artificial intelligence methods have demonstrated a…

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Binary perceptron is a fundamental model of supervised learning for the non-convex optimization, which is a root of the popular deep learning. Binary perceptron is able to achieve a classification of random high-dimensional data by…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-04-12 Yang Zhao , Junbin Qiu , Mingshan Xie , Haiping Huang

We report on the first experimental observation of spontaneous mirror symmetry breaking (SSB) in coherently driven-dissipative coupled optical cavities. SSB is observed as the breaking of the spatial or mirror Z2 symmetry between two…