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This paper expresses the structure of artificial neural network (ANN) as a functional form, using the activation integral concept derived from the activation function. In this way, the structure of ANN can be represented by a simple…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Zhongkui Ma

The AHP/ANP are multicriteria decision-making theories that deal with both hierarchic structures when the criteria are independent of the alternatives and with networks when there is any dependence within and between elements of the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-06-23 Thomas Saaty , Konrad Kułakowski

We explore the connection between deep learning and information theory through the paradigm of diffusion models. A diffusion model converts noise into structured data by reinstating, imperfectly, information that is erased when data was…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Akhil Premkumar

This paper revisits Brownian motion from the perspective of Information Theory, aiming to explore the connections between Information Theory, Thermodynamics, and Complex Science. First, we propose a single-particle discrete Brownian motion…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-12-10 Hongzheng Liu , Zhiyue Wu

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

Embedded systems acquire information about the real world from sensors and process it to make decisions and/or for transmission. In some situations, the relationship between the data and the decision is complex and/or the amount of data to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Florian Bacho , Dominique Chu

With the rapid development of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), various network models that show strong computing power and impressive expressive power are proposed. However, there is no comprehensive informational interpretation of DNNs from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-14 Xiao-Yang Liu

Understanding the inner workings of deep neural networks (DNNs) is essential to provide trustworthy artificial intelligence techniques for practical applications. Existing studies typically involve linking semantic concepts to units or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-25 Jie Hu , Liujuan Cao , Qixiang Ye , Tong Tong , ShengChuan Zhang , Ke Li , Feiyue Huang , Rongrong Ji , Ling Shao

Artificial Neural Networks(ANN) has been phenomenally successful on various pattern recognition tasks. However, the design of neural networks rely heavily on the experience and intuitions of individual developers. In this article, the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-01-19 Zhao Peng

Efficient representation learning is essential for optimal information storage and classification. However, it is frequently overlooked in artificial neural networks (ANNs). This neglect results in networks that can become overparameterized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Patrick Stricker , Florian Röhrbein , Andreas Knoblauch

This work explores entropy analysis as a tool for probing information distribution within Transformer-based architectures. By quantifying token-level uncertainty and examining entropy patterns across different stages of processing, we aim…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Amedeo Buonanno , Alessandro Rivetti , Francesco A. N. Palmieri , Giovanni Di Gennaro , Gianmarco Romano

Over the last few years, key architectural advances have been proposed for neural network interatomic potentials (NNIPs), such as incorporating message-passing networks, equivariance, or many-body expansion terms. Although modern NNIP…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Joshua A. Vita , Daniel Schwalbe-Koda

For sensory networks, we determine the rate with which they acquire information about the changing external conditions. Comparing this rate with the thermodynamic entropy production that quantifies the cost of maintaining the network, we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-04-08 A. C. Barato , D Hartich , U. Seifert

By 'informational entropy', we understand an inherent boundary to knowability, due e.g. to perceptual, theoretical, evidential or linguistic limits. In this paper, we discuss a logical framework in which this boundary is incorporated into…

The Cognitive Buffer Hypothesis (CBH) posits that larger brains evolved to enhance survival in changing conditions. However, larger brains also carry higher energy demands, imposing additional metabolic burdens. Alongside brain size, brain…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Sian Heesom-Green , Jonathan Shock , Geoff Nitschke

This chapter provides a comprehensive and self-contained discussion of the most recent developments of information theory of networks. Maximum entropy models of networks are the least biased ensembles enforcing a set of constraints and are…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-06-14 Ginestra Bianconi

The practice of scientific research is often thought of as individuals and small teams striving for disciplinary advances. Yet as a whole, this endeavor more closely resembles a complex system of natural computation, in which information is…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-06-19 Jordan D. Dworkin , Russell T. Shinohara , Danielle S. Bassett

For real-world complex system constantly enduring perturbation, to achieve survival goal in changing yet unknown environments, the central problem is constantly adapting themself to external environments according to environmental feedback.…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2024-10-31 Mingyang Bai , Daqing Li

Entropy and information provide natural measures of correlation among elements in a network. We construct here the information theoretic analog of connected correlation functions: irreducible $N$--point correlation is measured by a decrease…

Biological Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Elad Schneidman , Susanne Still , Michael J. Berry , William Bialek

I consider motivation and value-alignment in AI systems from the perspective of (constrained) entropy maximization. Though the structures encoding knowledge in any physical system can be understood as energetic constraints, only living…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-08-29 Alex B. Kiefer