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Continual learning is the ability to acquire new knowledge without forgetting the previously learned one, assuming no further access to past training data. Neural network approximators trained with gradient descent are known to fail in this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Rodrigue Siry

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

The rapid evolution of artificial intelligence (AI) has shifted from static, data-driven models to dynamic systems capable of perceiving and interacting with real-world environments. Despite advancements in pattern recognition and symbolic…

Artificial intelligence has advanced significantly through deep learning, reinforcement learning, and large language and vision models. However, these systems often remain task specific, struggle to adapt to changing conditions, and cannot…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-10-17 Noorbakhsh Amiri Golilarz , Hassan S. Al Khatib , Shahram Rahimi

Humans and most animals can learn new tasks without forgetting old ones. However, training artificial neural networks (ANNs) on new tasks typically cause it to forget previously learned tasks. This phenomenon is the result of "catastrophic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-04 Nicolas Y. Masse , Gregory D. Grant , David J. Freedman

Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) trained on compositional tasks can exhibit functional modularity, in which neurons can be clustered by activity similarity and participation in shared computational subtasks. Unlike brains, these RNNs do not…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2023-10-12 Ziming Liu , Mikail Khona , Ila R. Fiete , Max Tegmark

How can the stability and efficiency of Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) be ensured through a systematic analysis method? This paper seeks to address that query. While numerous factors can influence the learning process of ANNs, utilizing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Cheng Kang , Xujing Yao

In this paper, we examine how deep learning can be utilized to investigate neural health and the difficulties in interpreting neurological analyses within algorithmic models. The key contribution of this paper is the investigation of the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Abdullatif Baba

This paper introduces a novel approach to Dynamic Artificial Neural Networks (D-ANNs) for multi-task demand forecasting called Neuroplastic Multi-Task Network (NMT-Net). Unlike conventional methods focusing on inference-time dynamics or…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Mateusz Żarski , Sławomir Nowaczyk

Despite the significant advances achieved in Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs), their design process remains notoriously tedious, depending primarily on intuition, experience and trial-and-error. This human-dependent process is often…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Mohamed Shahawy , Elhadj Benkhelifa , David White

Meta-learning often referred to as learning-to-learn is a promising notion raised to mimic human learning by exploiting the knowledge of prior tasks but being able to adapt quickly to novel tasks. A plethora of models has emerged in this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Jicang Cai , Saeed Vahidian , Weijia Wang , Mohsen Joneidi , Bill Lin

Artificial neural networks (ANNs), inspired by the interconnection of real neurons, have achieved unprecedented success in various fields such as computer vision and natural language processing. Recently, a novel mathematical ANN model,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Yu Ding , Jun Yu , Chunzhi Gu , Shangce Gao , Chao Zhang

The emerging field of diverse intelligence seeks an integrated view of problem-solving in agents of very different provenance, composition, and substrates. From subcellular chemical networks to swarms of organisms, and across evolved,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Benedikt Hartl , Léo Pio-Lopez , Chris Fields , Michael Levin

One major criticism of deep learning centers around the biological implausibility of the credit assignment schema used for learning -- backpropagation of errors. This implausibility translates into practical limitations, spanning scientific…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Alexander Ororbia , Ankur Mali , Adam Kohan , Beren Millidge , Tommaso Salvatori

Artificial neural networks (ANNs) are at the core of most Deep learning (DL) algorithms that successfully tackle complex problems like image recognition, autonomous driving, and natural language processing. However, unlike biological brains…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Spyridon Chavlis , Panayiota Poirazi

Discovering the neural mechanisms underpinning cognition is one of the grand challenges of neuroscience. However, previous approaches for building models of RNN dynamics that explain behaviour required iterative refinement of architectures…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2026-02-24 Puria Radmard , Paul M. Bays , Máté Lengyel

Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) were devised as a tool for Artificial Intelligence design implementations. However, it was soon became obvious that they are unable to fulfill their duties. The fully autonomous way of ANNs working,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-12-13 Emanuel Diamant

Artificial neural networks (ANNs), which are inspired by the brain, are a central pillar in the ongoing breakthrough in artificial intelligence. In recent years, researchers have examined mechanical implementations of ANNs, denoted as…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Eran Ben-Haim , Sefi Givli , Yizhar Or , Amir Gat

Deep 'Analog Artificial Neural Networks' (ANNs) perform complex classification problems with remarkably high accuracy. However, they rely on humongous amount of power to perform the calculations, veiling the accuracy benefits. The…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2018-04-17 Parami Wijesinghe , Aayush Ankit , Abhronil Sengupta , Kaushik Roy

We critically examine the limitations of current AI models in achieving autonomous learning and propose a learning architecture inspired by human and animal cognition. The proposed framework integrates learning from observation (System A)…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Emmanuel Dupoux , Yann LeCun , Jitendra Malik