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The world is full of systems of distributed agents, collaborating and competing in complex ways: firms and workers specialise within economies, neurons adapt their tuning across brain circuits, and species compete and coexist within…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Guillhem Artis , Danyal Akarca , Jascha Achterberg

Recent agent frameworks and inference-time algorithms often struggle with complex planning problems due to limitations in verifying generated plans or reasoning and varying complexity of instances within a single task. Many existing methods…

Generative models have been applied in the medical imaging domain for various image recognition and synthesis tasks. However, a more controllable and interpretable image synthesis model is still lacking yet necessary for important…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-15 Jiarong Ye , Yuan Xue , Peter Liu , Richard Zaino , Keith Cheng , Xiaolei Huang

Computational modeling plays an increasingly important role in neuroscience, highlighting the philosophical question of how computational models explain. In the context of neural network models for neuroscience, concerns have been raised…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2021-04-15 Rosa Cao , Daniel Yamins

Recent advances in generative models, such as diffusion models, have made generating high-quality synthetic images widely accessible. Prior works have shown that training on synthetic images improves many perception tasks, such as image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Jacob Schnell , Jieke Wang , Lu Qi , Vincent Tao Hu , Meng Tang

Synthetic data generation overcomes limitations of real-world machine learning. Traditional methods are valuable for augmenting costly datasets but only optimize one criterion: realism. In this paper, we tackle the problem of generating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Chance N DeSmet , Diane J Cook

The paper introduces a biologically and evolutionarily plausible neural architecture that allows a single group of neurons, or an entire cortical pathway, to be dynamically reconfigured to perform multiple, potentially very different…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-08-13 Thomas M. Breuel

Embryonic development leads to the reproducible and ordered appearance of complexity from egg to adult. The successive differentiation of different cell types, that elaborates this complexity, result from the activity of gene networks and…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2022-05-11 David A. Rand , Archishman Raju , Meritxell Saez , Francis Corson , Eric D. Siggia

Gene expression programming, a genotype/phenotype genetic algorithm (linear and ramified), is presented here for the first time as a new technique for the creation of computer programs. Gene expression programming uses character linear…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Candida Ferreira

Optimizing a neural network's performance is a tedious and time taking process, this iterative process does not have any defined solution which can work for all the problems. Optimization can be roughly categorized into - Architecture and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-16 Siddhartha Dhar Choudhury , Shashank Pandey , Kunal Mehrotra

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

Heterogeneity is a ubiquitous property of many biological systems and has profound implications for computation. While it is conceivable to optimize neuronal and synaptic heterogeneity for a specific task, such top-down optimization is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Arash Golmohammadi , Jannik Luboeinski , Christian Tetzlaff

Exploring how genetic sequences shape phenotypes is a fundamental challenge in biology and a key step toward scalable, hypothesis-driven experimentation. The task is complicated by the large modality gap between sequences and phenotypes, as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Jingquan Yan , Yuwei Miao , Lei Yu , Yuzhi Guo , Xue Xiao , Lin Xu , Junzhou Huang

Cellular response to a perturbation is the result of a dynamic system of biological variables linked in a complex network. A major challenge in drug and disease studies is identifying the key factors of a biological network that are…

Applications · Statistics 2014-09-02 Lisa M. Pham , Luis Carvalho , Scott Schaus , Eric D. Kolaczyk

Deep learning techniques have become widely utilized in histopathology image classification due to their superior performance. However, this success heavily relies on the availability of substantial labeled data, which necessitates…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-15 Meng Li , Chaoyi Li , Can Peng , Brian C. Lovell

Precise temporal coordination of gene expression is crucial for many developmental processes. One central question in developmental biology is how such coordinated expression patterns are robustly controlled. During embryonic development of…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2015-05-14 Akihiko Nakajima , Takako Isshiki , Kunihiko Kaneko , Shuji Ishihara

The connectome is a wiring diagram mapping all the neural connections in the brain. At the cellular level, it provides a map of the neurons and synapses within a part or all of the brain of an organism. In recent years, significant advances…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2022-06-01 Adrián Hernández , José M. Amigó

Understanding the development of adolescent behavioral and mental health outcomes requires integrating genetic predisposition, environmental exposures, and neurobiological processes over time. Here, we present a unified quantitative…

Other Quantitative Biology · Quantitative Biology 2026-05-06 Mengman Wei , Qian Peng

Complex networks theory has commonly been used for modelling and understanding the interactions taking place between the elements composing complex systems. More recently, the use of generative models has gained momentum, as they allow…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-05-19 Massimiliano Zanin , Marco Correia , Pedro A. C. Sousa , Jorge Cruz

There has been significant research over the past two decades in developing new platforms for spiking neural computation. Current neural computers are primarily developed to mimick biology. They use neural networks which can be trained to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-07-23 Xavier Lagorce , Ryad Benosman