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This article highlights specific features of biological neurons and their dendritic trees, whose adoption may help advance artificial neural networks used in various machine learning applications. Advancements could take the form of…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2021-06-15 Spyridon Chavlis , Panayiota Poirazi

Artificial neural networks (ANNs) are at the core of most Deep learning (DL) algorithms that successfully tackle complex problems like image recognition, autonomous driving, and natural language processing. However, unlike biological brains…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Spyridon Chavlis , Panayiota Poirazi

A key challenge for AI is to build embodied systems that operate in dynamically changing environments. Such systems must adapt to changing task contexts and learn continuously. Although standard deep learning systems achieve state of the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Abhiram Iyer , Karan Grewal , Akash Velu , Lucas Oliveira Souza , Jeremy Forest , Subutai Ahmad

Artificial neural networks (ANNs) have emerged as an essential tool in machine learning, achieving remarkable success across diverse domains, including image and speech generation, game playing, and robotics. However, there exist…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Samuel Schmidgall , Jascha Achterberg , Thomas Miconi , Louis Kirsch , Rojin Ziaei , S. Pardis Hajiseyedrazi , Jason Eshraghian

The brain is a highly efficient system evolved to achieve high performance with limited resources. We propose that dendrites make information processing and storage in the brain more efficient through the segregation of inputs and their…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2023-06-13 Roman Makarov , Michalis Pagkalos , Panayiota Poirazi

Inspired by key neuroscience principles, deep learning has driven exponential breakthroughs in developing functional models of perception and other cognitive processes. A key to this success has been the implementation of crucial features…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-11-07 Guillaume Etter

Our understanding of biological neuronal networks has profoundly influenced the development of artificial neural networks (ANNs). However, neurons utilized in ANNs differ considerably from their biological counterparts, primarily due to the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Xundong Wu , Pengfei Zhao , Zilin Yu , Lei Ma , Ka-Wa Yip , Huajin Tang , Gang Pan , Poirazi Panayiota , Tiejun Huang

Bio-inspired computing has focused on neuron and synapses with great success. However, the connections between these, the dendrites, also play an important role. In this paper, we investigate the motivation for replicating dendritic…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-06 Daniel John Mannion , Anthony Joseph Kenyon

The brain can efficiently learn a wide range of tasks, motivating the search for biologically inspired learning rules for improving current artificial intelligence technology. Most biological models are composed of point neurons, and cannot…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2026-04-13 Cristiano Capone , Cosimo Lupo , Paolo Muratore , Pier Stanislao Paolucci

Deep learning's success comes with growing energy demands, raising concerns about the long-term sustainability of the field. Spiking neural networks, inspired by biological neurons, offer a promising alternative with potential computational…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Adalbert Fono , Manjot Singh , Ernesto Araya , Philipp C. Petersen , Holger Boche , Gitta Kutyniok

Neuromorphic computing seeks to replicate the remarkable efficiency, flexibility, and adaptability of the human brain in artificial systems. Unlike conventional digital approaches, which suffer from the Von Neumann bottleneck and depend on…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Marcel van Gerven

Artificial Neural Networks are computational network models inspired by signal processing in the brain. These models have dramatically improved the performance of many learning tasks, including speech and object recognition. However,…

Computations on the dendritic trees of neurons have important constraints. Voltage dependent conductances in dendrites are not similar to arbitrary direct-current generation, they are the basis for dendritic nonlinearities and they do not…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2021-08-12 Ilenna Simone Jones , Konrad Paul Kording

Does the energy requirements for the human brain give energy constraints that give reason to doubt the feasibility of artificial intelligence? This report will review some relevant estimates of brain bioenergetics and analyze some of the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-02-15 Anders Sandberg

The introduction of large language models has significantly expanded global demand for computing; addressing this growing demand requires novel approaches that introduce new capabilities while addressing extant needs. Although inspiration…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Wilkie Olin-Ammentorp

Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) were devised as a tool for Artificial Intelligence design implementations. However, it was soon became obvious that they are unable to fulfill their duties. The fully autonomous way of ANNs working,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-12-13 Emanuel Diamant

Introduction: In contrast to current AI technology, natural intelligence -- the kind of autonomous intelligence that is realized in the brains of animals and humans to attain in their natural environment goals defined by a repertoire of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Christoph von der Malsburg , Thilo Stadelmann , Benjamin F. Grewe

Deep learning has led to significant advances in artificial intelligence, in part, by adopting strategies motivated by neurophysiology. However, it is unclear whether deep learning could occur in the real brain. Here, we show that a deep…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2017-04-11 Jordan Guergiuev , Timothy P. Lillicrap , Blake A. Richards

The human brain has immense learning capabilities at extreme energy efficiencies and scale that no artificial system has been able to match. For decades, reverse engineering the brain has been one of the top priorities of science and…

Artificial intelligence (AI) research today is largely driven by ever-larger neural network models trained on graphics processing units (GPUs). This paradigm has yielded remarkable progress, but it also risks entrenching a hardware lottery…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Bipin Rajendran , Osvaldo Simeone , Bashir M. Al-Hashimi
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