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In this work, a conceptual bio-inspired parallel and distributed learning framework for the emergence of general intelligence is proposed, where agents evolve through environmental rewards and learn throughout their lifetime without…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-09-23 Sidney Pontes-Filho , Stefano Nichele

The ability of a brain or a neural network to efficiently learn depends crucially on both the task structure and the learning rule. Previous works have analyzed the dynamical equations describing learning in the relatively simplified…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Christian Schmid , James M. Murray

Recent progress in diverse intelligence has shown simple learning capacities below the organism level - single cells and even molecular networks. However, there are still many knowledge gaps around learning capacity above the organism…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2026-05-29 Adrita Samanta , Hananel Hazan , Michael Levin

Decomposing knowledge into interchangeable pieces promises a generalization advantage when there are changes in distribution. A learning agent interacting with its environment is likely to be faced with situations requiring novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-20 Kanika Madan , Nan Rosemary Ke , Anirudh Goyal , Bernhard Schölkopf , Yoshua Bengio

Recent success in training deep neural networks have prompted active investigation into the features learned on their intermediate layers. Such research is difficult because it requires making sense of non-linear computations performed by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-03-01 Yixuan Li , Jason Yosinski , Jeff Clune , Hod Lipson , John Hopcroft

Aging is a fundamental aspect of living systems that undergo a progressive deterioration of physiological function with age and an increase of vulnerability to disease and death. Living systems, known as complex systems, require complexity…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2010-11-15 Byung Mook Weon , Jung Ho Je

Network systems can exhibit memory effects in which the interactions between different pairs of nodes adapt in time, leading to the emergence of preferred connections, patterns, and sub-networks. To a first approximation, this memory can be…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-11-12 Gianmarco Zanardi , Paolo Bettotti , Jules Morand , Lorenzo Pavesi , Luca Tubiana

Despite extensive theoretical work on biologically plausible learning rules, clear evidence about whether and how such rules are implemented in the brain has been difficult to obtain. We consider biologically plausible supervised- and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Jacob P. Portes , Christian Schmid , James M. Murray

The difficult problem of relating the static structure of glassy liquids and their dynamics is a good target for Machine Learning, an approach which excels at finding complex patterns hidden in data. Indeed, this approach is currently a hot…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-05-29 Francesco Saverio Pezzicoli , Guillaume Charpiat , François P. Landes

We summarize studies of growing lengths in different aging systems. The article is structured as follows. We recall the definition of a number of observables, typically correlations and susceptibilities, that give access to dynamic and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-10-04 Federico Corberi , Leticia F. Cugliandolo , Hajime Yoshino

We present a detailed study of simple `tree' models for off equilibrium dynamics and aging in glassy systems. The simplest tree describes the landscape of a random energy model, whereas multifurcating trees occur in the solution of the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 J-P. Bouchaud , D. S. Dean

Deep artificial neural networks famously struggle to learn from non-stationary streams of data. Without dedicated mitigation strategies, continual learning is associated with continuous forgetting of previous tasks and a progressive loss of…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-12-29 Suzanne van der Veldt , Gido M. van de Ven , Sanne Moorman , Guillaume Etter

We show that learning can be improved by using loss functions that evolve cyclically during training to emphasize one class at a time. In underparameterized networks, such dynamical loss functions can lead to successful training for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-24 Miguel Ruiz-Garcia , Ge Zhang , Samuel S. Schoenholz , Andrea J. Liu

The brain constantly turns large flows of sensory information into selective representations of the environment. It, therefore, needs to learn to process those sensory inputs that are most relevant for behaviour. It is not well understood…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2023-01-10 Pouya Baniasadi

In this paper we continue our investigation on the high storage regime of a neural network with Gaussian patterns. Through an exact mapping between its partition function and one of a bipartite spin glass (whose parties consist of Ising and…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-06-05 Adriano Barra , Giuseppe Genovese , Francesco Guerra , Daniele Tantari

Simultaneously evolving morphologies (bodies) and controllers (brains) of robots can cause a mismatch between the inherited body and brain in the offspring. To mitigate this problem, the addition of an infant learning period by the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-19 Jie Luo , Aart Stuurman , Jakub M. Tomczak , Jacintha Ellers , Agoston E. Eiben

Learning depends on changes in synaptic connections deep inside the brain. In multilayer networks, these changes are triggered by error signals fed back from the output, generally through a stepwise inversion of the feedforward processing…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2021-01-05 William F. Podlaski , Christian K. Machens

As people learn to navigate the world, autonomic nervous system (e.g., "fight or flight") responses provide intrinsic feedback about the potential consequence of action choices (e.g., becoming nervous when close to a cliff edge or driving…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-03-25 Daniel McDuff , Ashish Kapoor

In the paper the memory effect in the system consisting from a trajectory of process and an environment is considered. The environment is presented by scalar potential and noise. The evolution of system is interpreted as process of the…

General Physics · Physics 2008-01-28 Maxim Budaev

Loss of plasticity is one of the main challenges in continual learning with deep neural networks, where neural networks trained via backpropagation gradually lose their ability to adapt to new tasks and perform significantly worse than…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Jiuqi Wang , Rohan Chandra , Shangtong Zhang