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This paper considers neural representation through the lens of active inference, a normative framework for understanding brain function. It delves into how living organisms employ generative models to minimize the discrepancy between…

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Quantum reservoir computing is a machine learning framework that offers ease of training compared to other quantum neural networks, as it does not rely on gradient-based optimization. Learning is performed in a single step on the output…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-04 Baptiste Carles , Julien Dudas , Léo Balembois , Julie Grollier , Danijela Marković

Understanding how species persist under interacting stressors is a central challenge in ecology. We develop a spatially explicit reaction-diffusion framework to investigate competing species in landscapes shaped by climate variability,…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2026-02-02 Ton Viet Ta

Understanding the fundamental relationships between physics and its information-processing capability has been an active research topic for many years. Physical reservoir computing is a recently introduced framework that allows one to…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2020-06-24 Kohei Nakajima

The observed architecture of ecological and socio-economic networks differs significantly from that of random networks. From a network science standpoint, non-random structural patterns observed in real networks call for an explanation of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-05-30 Manuel Sebastian Mariani , Zhuo-Ming Ren , Jordi Bascompte , Claudio Juan Tessone

A new machine learning scheme, termed versatile reservoir computing, is proposed for sustaining the dynamics of heterogeneous complex networks. We show that a single, small-scale reservoir computer trained on time series from a subset of…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2025-05-22 Yao Du , Huawei Fan , Xingang Wang

Competition for a limited resource is the hallmark of many complex systems, and often, that resource turns out to be the physical space itself. In this work, we study a novel model designed to elucidate the dynamics and emergence in complex…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-03-18 Ann Mary Mathew , V Sasidevan

In real-world reinforcement learning (RL) scenarios, agents often encounter partial observability, where incomplete or noisy information obscures the true state of the environment. Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes (POMDPs) are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Ashok Arora , Neetesh Kumar

In collective robotic systems, the automatic generation of controllers for complex tasks is still a challenging problem. Open-ended evolution of complex robot behaviors can be a possible solution whereby an intrinsic driver for pattern…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-10-14 Tanja Katharina Kaiser , Heiko Hamann

Information processing abilities of active matter are studied in the reservoir computing (RC) paradigm to infer the future state of a chaotic signal. We uncover an exceptional regime of agent dynamics that has been overlooked previously. It…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2026-01-26 Mario U. Gaimann , Miriam Klopotek

Living organisms, ecosystems, and social systems are examples of complex systems in which robustness against inclusion of new elements is an essential feature. A recently proposed simple model has revealed a general mechanism by which such…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2018-01-24 Fumiko Ogushi , János Kertész , Kimmo Kaski , Takashi Shimada

Cell biomechanics involve a great number of complex phenomena that are fundamental to the evolution of life itself and other associated processes, ranging from the very early stages of embryo-genesis to the maintenance of damaged structures…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Juan Olalla-Pombo , Alberto Badías , Miguel Ángel Sanz-Gómez , José María Benítez , Francisco Javier Montáns

The prediction of time series is a challenging task relevant in such diverse applications as analyzing financial data, forecasting flow dynamics or understanding biological processes. Especially chaotic time series that depend on a long…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Johannes Viehweg , Dominik Walther , Patrick Mäder

A Literature Review of Reservoir Computing. Even before Artificial Intelligence was its own field of computational science, humanity has tried to mimic the activity of the human brain. In the early 1940s the first artificial neuron models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Felix Grezes

Reservoir Computing (RC) is a paradigm in artificial intelligence where a recurrent neural network (RNN) is used to process temporal data, leveraging the inherent dynamical properties of the reservoir to perform complex computations. In the…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2023-12-15 Emmanuel Calvet , Bertrand Reulet , Jean Rouat

A physical neural network (PNN) has both the strong potential to solve machine learning tasks and intrinsic physical properties, such as high-speed computation and energy efficiency. Reservoir computing (RC) is an excellent framework for…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2024-12-18 Tomoyuki Kubota , Yusuke Imai , Sumito Tsunegi , Kohei Nakajima

A system responding to a stochastic driving signal can be interpreted as computing, by means of its dynamics, an implicit model of the environmental variables. The system's state retains information about past environmental fluctuations,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-10-09 Susanne Still , David A. Sivak , Anthony J. Bell , Gavin E. Crooks

Physical reservoir computing provides a powerful machine learning paradigm that exploits nonlinear physical dynamics for efficient information processing. By incorporating quantum effects, quantum reservoir computing offers superior…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-27 Yanjun Hou , Juncheng Hua , Ze Wu , Wei Xia , Yuquan Chen , Xiaopeng Li , Zhaokai Li , Xinhua Peng , Jiangfeng Du

As we approach the physical limits of CMOS technology, advances in materials science and nanotechnology are making available a variety of unconventional computing substrates that can potentially replace top-down-designed silicon-based…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2014-05-05 Alireza Goudarzi , Matthew R. Lakin , Darko Stefanovic

Physical dynamical systems can be viewed as natural information processors: their systems preserve, transform, and disperse input information. This perspective motivates learning not only from data generated by such systems, but also how to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Felix Köster , Atsushi Uchida