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Recent progress in artificial intelligence (AI) has renewed interest in building systems that learn and think like people. Many advances have come from using deep neural networks trained end-to-end in tasks such as object recognition, video…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-11-03 Brenden M. Lake , Tomer D. Ullman , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , Samuel J. Gershman

Humans excel at continually acquiring, consolidating, and retaining information from an ever-changing environment, whereas artificial neural networks (ANNs) exhibit catastrophic forgetting. There are considerable differences in the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Fahad Sarfraz , Elahe Arani , Bahram Zonooz

At present, artificial intelligence in the form of machine learning is making impressive progress, especially the field of deep learning (DL) [1]. Deep learning algorithms have been inspired from the beginning by nature, specifically by the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic

Machine learning, particularly in the form of deep learning, has driven most of the recent fundamental developments in artificial intelligence. Deep learning is based on computational models that are, to a certain extent, bio-inspired, as…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2020-05-01 Adnan Mehonic , Abu Sebastian , Bipin Rajendran , Osvaldo Simeone , Eleni Vasilaki , Anthony J. Kenyon

Modern AI systems, based on von Neumann architecture and classical neural networks, have a number of fundamental limitations in comparison with the brain. This article discusses such limitations and the ways they can be mitigated. Next, it…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Dmitry Ivanov , Aleksandr Chezhegov , Andrey Grunin , Mikhail Kiselev , Denis Larionov

Although inspired by neuronal systems in the brain, artificial neural networks generally employ point-neurons, which offer far less computational complexity than their biological counterparts. Neurons have dendritic arbors that connect to…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-10-22 A N M Nafiul Islam , Xuezhong Niu , Jiahui Duan , Shubham Kumar , Kai Ni , Abhronil Sengupta

Artificial neural networks and computational neuroscience models have made tremendous progress, allowing computers to achieve impressive results in artificial intelligence (AI) applications, such as image recognition, natural language…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Giacomo Indiveri , Yulia Sandamirskaya

Over the past decade, AI has made a remarkable progress due to recently revived Deep Learning technology. Deep Learning enables to process large amounts of data using simplified neuron networks that simulate the way in which the brain…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-05-26 Emanuel Diamant

Recent progress in artificial intelligence (AI) has been driven by insights from physics and neuroscience, particularly through the development of artificial neural networks (ANNs) capable of complex cognitive tasks such as vision and…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-11-04 Alejandro Rodriguez-Garcia , Anindya Ghosh , Jie Mei , Srikanth Ramaswamy

The brain can learn to solve a wide range of tasks with high temporal and energetic efficiency. However, most biological models are composed of simple single compartment neurons and cannot achieve the state-of-art performances of artificial…

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

Physiological experiments have highlighted how the dendrites of biological neurons can nonlinearly process distributed synaptic inputs. This is in stark contrast to units in artificial neural networks that are generally linear apart from an…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2020-09-04 Ilenna Simone Jones , Konrad Paul Kording

Diverse subfields of neuroscience have enriched artificial intelligence for many decades. With recent advances in machine learning and artificial neural networks, many neuroscientists are partnering with AI researchers and machine learning…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2019-12-03 Thomas Dean , Chaofei Fan , Francis E. Lewis , Megumi Sano

Nowadays, we have witnessed the great success of AI in various applications, including image classification, game playing, protein structure analysis, language translation, and content generation. Despite these powerful applications, there…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2023-01-23 Luyao Chen , Zhiqiang Chen , Longsheng Jiang , Xiang Liu , Linlu Xu , Bo Zhang , Xiaolong Zou , Jinying Gao , Yu Zhu , Xizi Gong , Shan Yu , Sen Song , Liangyi Chen , Fang Fang , Si Wu , Jia Liu

The deep neural nets of modern artificial intelligence (AI) have not achieved defining features of biological intelligence, including abstraction, causal learning, and energy-efficiency. While scaling to larger models has delivered…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2021-05-24 Joseph D. Monaco , Kanaka Rajan , Grace M. Hwang

Over the past decade, AI has made a remarkable progress. It is agreed that this is due to the recently revived Deep Learning technology. Deep Learning enables to process large amounts of data using simplified neuron networks that simulate…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-02-19 Emanuel Diamant

The significant role of dendritic processing within neuronal networks has become increasingly clear. This letter explores the effects of including a simple dendrite-inspired mechanism into neuroevolution. The phenomenon of separate dendrite…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Larry Bull

The field of artificial intelligence faces significant challenges in achieving both biological plausibility and computational efficiency, particularly in visual learning tasks. Current artificial neural networks, such as convolutional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Jacobo Ruiz , Manas Gupta

Machine learning has emerged as the dominant tool for implementing complex cognitive tasks that require supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement learning. While the resulting machines have demonstrated in some cases even super-human…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2019-08-06 Bipin Rajendran , Abu Sebastian , Michael Schmuker , Narayan Srinivasa , Evangelos Eleftheriou

This paper describes some biologically-inspired processes that could be used to build the sort of networks that we associate with the human brain. New to this paper, a 'refined' neuron will be proposed. This is a group of neurons that by…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-02-06 Kieran Greer

As our understanding of the mechanisms of brain function is enhanced, the value of insights gained from neuroscience to the development of AI algorithms deserves further consideration. Here, we draw parallels with an existing tree-based ANN…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Fahad Sarfraz , Elahe Arani , Bahram Zonooz