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Similar to humans and animals, deep artificial neural networks exhibit critical periods during which a temporary stimulus deficit can impair the development of a skill. The extent of the impairment depends on the onset and length of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Alessandro Achille , Matteo Rovere , Stefano Soatto

The observation of critical-like behavior in cortical networks represents a major step forward in elucidating how the brain manages information. Understanding the origin and functionality of critical-like dynamics, as well as their…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2015-06-22 Paula Villa Martín , Paolo Moretti , Miguel A. Muñoz

Neural systems process information in a dynamical regime between silence and chaotic dynamics. This has lead to the criticality hypothesis which suggests that neural systems reach such a state by self-organizing towards the critical point…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-03-10 Stefan Landmann , Lorenz Baumgarten , Stefan Bornholdt

Deep artificial neural networks have surpassed human-level performance across a diverse array of complex learning tasks, establishing themselves as indispensable tools in both social applications and scientific research. Despite these…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-09-03 Chuanbo Liu , Jin Wang

This paper briefly analyzes the advantages and problems of AI mainstream technology and puts forward: To achieve stronger Artificial Intelligence, the end-to-end function calculation must be changed and adopt the technology system centered…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Feng Chen

Control of a dynamical system without the knowledge of dynamics is an important and challenging task. Modern machine learning approaches, such as deep neural networks (DNNs), allow for the estimation of a dynamics model from control inputs…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-14 Suruchi Sharma , Volodymyr Makarenko , Gautam Kumar , Stas Tiomkin

Artificial intelligence has advanced rapidly across perception, language, reasoning, and multimodal domains. Yet despite these achievements, modern AI systems remain fundamentally limited in their ability to self-monitor, self-correct, and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Noorbakhsh Amiri Golilarz , Sindhuja Penchala , Shahram Rahimi

In this paper, we find the existence of critical features hidden in Deep NeuralNetworks (DNNs), which are imperceptible but can actually dominate the outputof DNNs. We call these features dominant patterns. As the name suggests, for a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Zhixing Ye , Shaofei Qin , Sizhe Chen , Xiaolin Huang

In this study, we explored the progression trajectories of artificial intelligence (AI) systems through the lens of complexity theory. We challenged the conventional linear and exponential projections of AI advancement toward Artificial…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Teo Susnjak , Timothy R. McIntosh , Andre L. C. Barczak , Napoleon H. Reyes , Tong Liu , Paul Watters , Malka N. Halgamuge

The success of deep neural networks (DNNs) is attributable to three factors: increased compute capacity, more complex models, and more data. These factors, however, are not always present, especially for edge applications such as autonomous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-26 Bichen Wu

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

The principled design and discovery of biologically- and physically-informed models of neuronal dynamics has been advancing since the mid-twentieth century. Recent developments in artificial intelligence (AI) have accelerated this progress.…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2021-12-24 Mahta Ramezanian Panahi , Germán Abrevaya , Jean-Christophe Gagnon-Audet , Vikram Voleti , Irina Rish , Guillaume Dumas

Recent experimental results based on multi-electrode and imaging techniques have reinvigorated the idea that large neural networks operate near a critical point, between order and disorder. However, evidence for criticality has relied on…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2015-03-05 Thierry Mora , Stéphane Deny , Olivier Marre

Despite the striking successes of deep neural networks trained with gradient-based optimization, these methods differ fundamentally from their biological counterparts. This gap raises key questions about how nature achieves robust,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Mattia Scardecchia

The critical inquiry pervading the realm of Philosophy, and perhaps extending its influence across all Humanities disciplines, revolves around the intricacies of morality and normativity. Surprisingly, in recent years, this thematic thread…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Nicholas Kluge Corrêa

Deep learning (DL) has become a driving force and has been widely adopted in many domains and applications with competitive performance. In practice, to solve the nontrivial and complicated tasks in real-world applications, DL is often not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-16 Zhijie Wang , Yuheng Huang , Lei Ma , Haruki Yokoyama , Susumu Tokumoto , Kazuki Munakata

As the use of AI-powered applications widens across multiple domains, so do increase the computational demands. Primary driver of AI technology are the deep neural networks (DNNs). When focusing either on cloud-based systems that serve…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-05-20 Stylianos I. Venieris , Christos-Savvas Bouganis , Nicholas D. Lane

It has been postulated that the brain operates in a self-organized critical state that brings multiple benefits, such as optimal sensitivity to input. Thus far, self-organized criticality has typically been depicted as a one-dimensional…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2023-05-08 Silja Sormunen , Thilo Gross , Jari Saramäki

Criticality can be exactly demonstrated in certain models of brain activity, yet it remains challenging to identify in empirical data. We trained a fully connected deep neural network to learn the phases of an excitable model unfolding on…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2022-06-13 Hernan Bocaccio , Enzo Tagliazucchi

A growing body of research has explored how to support humans in making better use of AI-based decision support, including via training and onboarding. Existing research has focused on decision-making tasks where it is possible to evaluate…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Anna Kawakami , Luke Guerdan , Yanghuidi Cheng , Matthew Lee , Scott Carter , Nikos Arechiga , Kate Glazko , Haiyi Zhu , Kenneth Holstein