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Edge computing provides the ability to link distributor users for multimedia content, while retaining the power of significant data storage and access at a centralized computer. Two requirements of significance include: what information…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Seyed Yahya Nikouei , Yu Chen , Alexander Aved , Erik Blasch

In service to the mathematical underpinnings of the Information Integration Theory of Consciousness (IIT), we introduce four measures of integration based on the partial information decomposition framework. We compare our measures to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Virgil Griffith

Standard techniques for studying biological systems largely focus on their dynamical, or, more recently, their informational properties, usually taking either a reductionist or holistic perspective. Yet, studying only individual system…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2018-02-07 William Marshall , Hyunju Kim , Sara I. Walker , Giulio Tononi , Larissa Albantakis

As we transition from the mobile internet to the 'Cognitive Internet,' a significant shift occurs in how we engage with technology and intelligence. We contend that the Cognitive Internet goes beyond the Cognitive Internet of Things…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-08-31 Siavash Alamouti , Fay Arjomandi , Michel Burger , Bashar Altakrouri

Information integration plays a pivotal role in biomedical studies by facilitating the combination and analysis of independent datasets from multiple studies, thereby uncovering valuable insights that might otherwise remain obscured due to…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-07-02 Chixiang Chen , Jia Liang , Elynn Chen , Ming Wang

To make nature mathematically tractable, the scientific model of the world omits qualia--colors, sounds, tastes, sensations--leaving only what admits of numerical characterization. The "hard problem" of consciousness--the enigma of why and…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2026-03-20 T. R. Le

This paper argues that explainability is only one facet of a broader ideal that shapes our expectations towards artificial intelligence (AI). Fundamentally, the issue is to what extent AI exhibits systematicity--not merely in being…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Matthieu Queloz

The search for a scientific theory of consciousness should result in theories that are falsifiable. However, here we show that falsification is especially problematic for theories of consciousness. We formally describe the standard…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2021-04-29 Johannes Kleiner , Erik Hoel

Consciousness is notoriously hard to define with objective terms. An objective definition of consciousness is critically needed so that we might accurately understand how consciousness and resultant choice behaviour may arise in biological…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2024-06-05 Craig I. McKenzie

Information theory is a mathematical theory of learning with deep connections with topics as diverse as artificial intelligence, statistical physics, and biological evolution. Many primers on information theory paint a broad picture with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-26 Philip Chodrow

In many applications (e.g., anomaly detection and security systems) of smart cities, rare events dominate the importance of the total information of big data collected by Internet of Things (IoTs). That is, it is pretty crucial to explore…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Rui She , Shanyun Liu , Shuo Wan , Ke Xiong , Pingyi Fan

In our modern society, people are daily confronted with an increasing amount of information of any kind. As a consequence, the attention capacities and processing abilities of individuals often saturate. People, therefore, have to select…

Physics and Society · Physics 2010-02-23 Mehdi Moussaid , Dirk Helbing , Guy Theraulaz

Human consciousness has been a long-lasting mystery for centuries, while machine intelligence and consciousness is an arduous pursuit. Researchers have developed diverse theories for interpreting the consciousness phenomenon in human brains…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2023-09-20 Zihan Ding , Xiaoxi Wei , Yidan Xu

Understanding the neural mechanism underlying subjective representation has become a central endeavor in cognitive-neuroscience. In theories of conscious perception, stimulus gaining conscious access is usually considered as a discrete…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2018-03-28 Moti Salti , Asaf Harel , Sebastien Marti

Internet of Intelligent Things (IoIT), an emerging field, combines the utility of Internet of Things (IoT) devices with the innovation of embedded AI algorithms. However, it does not come without challenges, and struggles regarding…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Vadim Allayev , Mahbubur Rahman

Chain-of-thought (CoT) prompting demonstrates varying performance under different reasoning tasks. Previous work attempts to evaluate it but falls short in providing an in-depth analysis of patterns that influence the CoT. In this paper, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Jiachun Li , Pengfei Cao , Yubo Chen , Jiexin Xu , Huaijun Li , Xiaojian Jiang , Kang Liu , Jun Zhao

Information Theory (IT) has been used in Machine Learning (ML) from early days of this field. In the last decade, advances in Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have led to surprising improvements in many applications of ML. The result has been a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Hassan Hafez-Kolahi , Shohreh Kasaei

Large scale projects increasingly operate in complicated settings whilst drawing on an array of complex data-points, which require precise analysis for accurate control and interventions to mitigate possible project failure. Coupled with a…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Nicholas Dacre , Fredrik Kockum , PK Senyo

The Internet of Things (IoT) is experiencing fast adoption in the society, from industrial to home applications. The number of deployed sensors and connected devices to the Internet is changing our perspective and the way we understand the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-06-28 Amelie Gyrard , Pankesh Patel , Amit Sheth , Martin Serrano

We present a new layer in which dynamic (i.e.,input-dependent) Infinite Impulse Response (IIR) filters of order two are used to process the input sequence prior to applying conventional attention. The input is split into chunks, and the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Shahar Lutati , Itamar Zimerman , Lior Wolf