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Animals' internal states reflect variables like their position in space, orientation, decisions, and motor actions -- but how should these internal states be arranged? Internal states which frequently transition between one another should…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-04-18 John J. Vastola

The notion of homeostasis typically conceptualises biological and artificial systems as maintaining stability by resisting deviations caused by environmental and social perturbations. In contrast, (social) allostasis proposes that these…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Imran Khan

The question how complex systems become more organized and efficient with time is open. Examples are, the formation of elementary particles from pure energy, the formation of atoms from particles, the formation of stars and galaxies, the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-01-17 Georgi Georgiev , Atanu Chatterjee , Germano Iannacchione

The emergence of order from initial disordered movement in self-propelled collective motion is an instance of nonequilibrium phase transition, which is known to be first order in the thermodynamic limit. Here, we introduce a multiplicative…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-04-30 Fatemeh Haghsheno , Mohammad Mehrafarin

Self-organization through noisy interactions is ubiquitous across physics, mathematics, and machine learning, yet how long-range structure emerges from local noisy dynamics remains poorly understood. Here, we investigate three paradigmatic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-31 Satyam Anand , Guanming Zhang , Stefano Martiniani

Conventional wisdom suggests that environmental noise drives populations toward extinction. In contrast, we report a paradoxical phenomenon in which stochasticity reverses a deterministic tipping point, thereby preventing collapse. Using a…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2025-07-08 Vinesh Vijayan , B Priyadharshini , R Sathish Kumar , G Janaki

A cyclically dominating three-species ecosystem, modeled within the framework of rock-paper-scissor game, is studied in presence of natural death and an effect of the environment. The environmental impact is parameterized along with the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-03-11 Sirshendu Bhattacharyya

We introduce a model, based on the Evolutionary Game Theory, for studying the dynamics of group formation. The latter constitutes a relevant phenomenon observed in different animal species, whose individuals tend to cluster together forming…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2018-02-07 Marco Alberto Javarone , Daniele Marinazzo

Chaotic itinerancy is a universal dynamical concept that describes itinerant motion among many different ordered states through chaotic transition in dynamical systems. Unlike the expectation of the prevalence of chaotic itinerancy in…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-12-16 Pan-Jun Kim , Tae-Wook Ko , Hawoong Jeong , Kyoung J. Lee , Seung Kee Han

Motivated by experiments on sheared suspensions that show a transition between ordered and disordered phases, we here study the long-time behavior of a sheared and overdamped 2-d system of particles interacting by repulsive forces. As a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-01-06 Jens C. Pfeifer , Tobias Bischoff , Georg Ehlers , Bruno Eckhardt

Humans routinely retrace paths in a novel environment both forwards and backwards despite uncertainty in their motion. This paper presents an approach for doing so. Given a demonstration of a path, a first network generates a path…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Ashish Kumar , Saurabh Gupta , David Fouhey , Sergey Levine , Jitendra Malik

Background: Recent research in animal behaviour has contributed to determine how alignment, turning responses, and changes of speed mediate flocking and schooling interactions in different animal species. Here, we address specifically the…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2018-09-05 Andrea Perna , Guillaume Gregoire , Richard P. Mann

One of the most intriguing dynamics in biological systems is the emergence of clustering, the self-organization into separated agglomerations of individuals. Several theories have been developed to explain clustering in, for instance,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-05-19 Michael Mäs , Andreas Flache , Dirk Helbing

In this study, under general frame of MAny Connected Intelligent Particles Systems (MACIPS), we reproduce two new simple subsets of such intelligent complex network, namely hybrid intelligent systems, involved a few prominent intelligent…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2010-01-10 Hamed Owladeghaffari

Adaptive decision-making in biological and artificial intelligence requires balancing the exploitation of known outcomes with the exploration of uncertain alternatives. Although prior work suggests that uncertainty generally promotes…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Payam Piray

Modeling crowds has many important applications in games and computer animation. Inspired by the emergent following effect in real-life crowd scenarios, in this work, we develop a method for implicitly grouping moving agents. We achieve…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Xiao-Cheng Liao , Wei-Neng Chen , Xiang-Ling Chen , Yi Mei

Collective motion is found in various animal systems, active suspensions and robotic or virtual agents. This is often understood using high level models that directly encode selected empirical features, such as co-alignment and cohesion.…

Biological Physics · Physics 2019-07-19 Henry J. Charlesworth , Matthew S. Turner

We analyze the influence of long-range correlated (colored) external noise on extinction phase transitions in growth and spreading processes. Uncorrelated environmental noise (i.e., temporal disorder) was recently shown to give rise to an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-08-15 Alexander H. O. Wada , Matthew Small , Thomas Vojta

We study the behavior of an open quantum system, with an $N$--dimensional space of states, whose density matrix evolves according to a non--unitary map defined in two steps: A unitary step, where the system evolves with an evolution…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Pablo Bianucci , Juan Pablo Paz , Marcos Saraceno

We study a circular opinion dynamics model with local midpoint interactions, extended to allow parallel updates of multiple sites. On a ring, the dynamics admits twisted states associated with integer winding numbers. We investigate how…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-05-29 Wioletta M. Ruszel , Cristian Spitoni