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The broad concept of emergence is instrumental in various of the most challenging open scientific questions -- yet, few quantitative theories of what constitutes emergent phenomena have been proposed. This article introduces a formal theory…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2021-01-27 Fernando E. Rosas , Pedro A. M. Mediano , Henrik J. Jensen , Anil K. Seth , Adam B. Barrett , Robin L. Carhart-Harris , Daniel Bor

This paper proposes a generative probabilistic model integrating emergent communication and multi-agent reinforcement learning. The agents plan their actions by probabilistic inference, called control as inference, and communicate using…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Tomoaki Nakamura , Akira Taniguchi , Tadahiro Taniguchi

Information-theoretic (IT) measures are ubiquitous in artificial intelligence: entropy drives decision-tree splits and uncertainty quantification, cross-entropy is the default classification loss, mutual information underpins representation…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Nikolaos Al. Papadopoulos , Konstantinos E. Psannis

Autonomous agent systems are governed by enforcement mechanisms that flag hard constraint violations at runtime. The Agent Control Protocol identifies a structural limit of such systems: a correctly-functioning enforcement engine can enter…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Marcelo Fernandez

Emergent behavior that appears at a given level of organization may be characterized as arising from an organizationally lower level in such a way that it transcends a mere increase in the behavioral degree of complexity. It is therefore to…

General Physics · Physics 2013-07-22 Gerald E. Marsh

Coupled human-environment systems are increasingly being understood as complex adaptive systems (CAS), in which micro-level interactions between components lead to emergent behavior. Agent-based models (ABMs) hold great promise for…

Applications · Statistics 2026-02-20 Dylan Munson , Arijit Dey , Simon Mak

Entropy governs molecular self-assembly, phase transitions, and material stability, yet remains challenging to quantify and directly control in molecular systems. Here, we demonstrate that the computable information density (CID), a data…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-27 Ashley Z. Guo , Kaelyn Chang , Nicholas J. Corrente

This paper proposes a novel problem: vision-based perception to learn and predict the collective dynamics of multi-agent systems, specifically focusing on interaction strength and convergence time. Multi-agent systems are defined as…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Minah Lee , Uday Kamal , Saibal Mukhopadhyay

Crisis response requires information intensive efforts utilized for reducing uncertainty, calculating and comparing costs and benefits, and managing resources in a fashion beyond those regularly available to handle routine problems. This…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2010-04-23 Khaled M. Khalil , M. Abdel-Aziz , Taymour T. Nazmy , Abdel-Badeeh M. Salem

Interactive Imitation Learning (IIL) allows agents to acquire desired behaviors through human interventions, but current methods impose high cognitive demands on human supervisors. We propose the Adaptive Intervention Mechanism (AIM), a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Haoyuan Cai , Zhenghao Peng , Bolei Zhou

Recent developments enable the quantification of causal control given a structural causal model (SCM). This has been accomplished by introducing quantities which encode changes in the entropy of one variable when intervening on another.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Francisco N. F. Q. Simoes , Mehdi Dastani , Thijs van Ommen

Cognition, information processing in form of inference, communication, and memorization, is the central activity of any intelligence. Its physical realization in a brain, computer, or in any other intelligent system requires resources like…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Torsten Enßlin

What is the most crucial characteristic of a system with life activity? Currently, many theories have attempted to explain the most essential difference between living systems and general systems, such as the self-organization theory and…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2025-01-29 Mingzhe Yang , Linli Pan , Jiang Zhang

Information theoretic measures (entropies, entropy rates, mutual information) are nowadays commonly used in statistical signal processing for real-world data analysis. The present work proposes the use of Auto Mutual Information (Mutual…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2019-07-24 C Granero-Belinchón , S. Roux , P. Abry , N. Garnier

In contrast with classical approaches, we present the project based on considering Collective Behaviours as coherent sequences of states adopted by different single systems consisting of the same elements interacting over time in different…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2009-10-12 Gianfranco Minati

Making a decision in a changeable and dynamic environment is an arduous task owing to the lack of information, their uncertainties and the unawareness of planners about the future evolution of incidents. The use of a decision support system…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2009-04-21 Fahem Kebair , Frederic Serin

We introduce a family of quantitative measures of responsibility in multi-agent planning, building upon the concepts of causal responsibility proposed by Parker et al.~[ParkerGL23]. These concepts are formalised within a variant of…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Chunyan Mu , Nir Oren

This paper describes a computational model of multiagent multimodal categorization that realizes emergent communication. We clarify whether the computational model can reproduce the following functions in a symbol emergence system,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Yoshinobu Hagiwara , Kazuma Furukawa , Akira Taniguchi , Tadahiro Taniguchi

We demonstrate how collective memory emerges in decentralized multi-agent systems through the interplay between individual agent memory and environmental trace communication. Our agents maintain internal memory states while depositing…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Khushiyant

Multi-agent systems (MAS) have gained relevance in the field of artificial intelligence by offering tools for modelling complex environments where autonomous agents interact to achieve common or individual goals. In these systems, norms…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Carmengelys Cordova , Joaquin Taverner , Elena Del Val , Estefania Argente