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Motivated by recent experimental studies, we derive and analyze a twodimensional model for the contraction patterns observed in protoplasmic droplets of Physarum polycephalum. The model couples a model of an active poroelastic two-phase…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2018-11-21 Markus Radszuweit , Harald Engel , Markus Bär

Computing devices are composed of spatial arrangements of simple funda- mental logic gates. These gates may be combined to form more complex adding circuits and, ultimately, complete computer systems. Implementing classical adding circuits…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2015-11-19 Jeff Jones , James G. H. Whiting , Andrew Adamatzky

Existing multimodal reasoning models and frameworks suffer from fundamental architectural limitations: most lack the human-like ability to autonomously explore diverse reasoning pathways-whether in direct inference, tool-driven visual…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Yifu Guo , Zishan Xu , Zhiyuan Yao , Yuquan Lu , Jiaye Lin , Sen Hu , Zhenheng Tang , Huacan Wang , Ronghao Chen

Plasmodium of Physarum polycephalum is a single cell visible by unaided eye. During its foraging behavior the cell spans spatially distributed sources of nutrients with a protoplasmic network. Geometrical structure of the protoplasmic…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-03-17 Andrew Adamatzky , Genaro J. Martinez , Sergio V. Chapa-Vergara , Rene Asomoza-Palacio , Christopher R. Stephens

Plasmodium of Physarum polycephalum is a large single cell visible by unaided eye. It shows sophisticated behavioural traits in foraging for nutrients and developing an optimal transport network of protoplasmic tubes spanning sources of…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2013-05-03 Andrew Adamatzky , Genaro J. Martinez

Plasmodium of Physarum polycephalum is a single cell visible by unaided eye. During its foraging behaviour the cell spans spatially distributed sources of nutrients with a protoplasmic network. Geometrical structure of the protoplasmic…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-05-14 Andrew Adamatzky , Jeff Jones

Complex visual reasoning and question answering (VQA) is a challenging task that requires compositional multi-step processing and higher-level reasoning capabilities beyond the immediate recognition and localization of objects and events.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Shantanu Jaiswal , Debaditya Roy , Basura Fernando , Cheston Tan

Although LLMs have made substantial progress in reasoning, systematically producing frontier-level reasoning data remains difficult. Existing synthesis methods often have limited visibility into the structural factors that govern problem…

The quantification of cognitive powers rests on identifying a behavioural task that depends on them. Such dependence cannot be assured, for the powers a task invokes cannot be experimentally controlled or constrained a priori, resulting in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Amy PK Nelson , Joe Mole , Guilherme Pombo , Robert J Gray , James K Ruffle , Edgar Chan , Geraint E Rees , Lisa Cipolotti , Parashkev Nachev

A central challenge in the computational modeling of neural dynamics is the trade-off between accuracy and simplicity. At the level of individual neurons, nonlinear dynamics are both experimentally established and essential for neuronal…

Many biological decision-making processes can be viewed as performing a classification task over a set of inputs, using various chemical and physical processes as "biological hardware." In this context, it is important to understand the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-09-10 Carlos Floyd , Aaron R. Dinner , Arvind Murugan , Suriyanarayanan Vaikuntanathan

Computing a polygon defining a set of planar points is a classical problem of modern computational geometry. In laboratory experiments we demonstrate that a concave hull, a connected alpha-shape without holes, of a finite planar set is…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2012-06-26 Andrew Adamatzky

The payload performance of conventional computing systems, from single processors to supercomputers, reached its limits the nature enables. Both the growing demand to cope with "big data" (based on, or assisted by, artificial intelligence)…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2020-09-30 János Végh , Ádám J. Berki

Metazoans are capable of gathering information from their environments and respond in predictable ways. These computational tasks are achieved by means of more or less complex networks of neurons. Task performance must be reliable over an…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2019-09-26 Aina Ollé-Vila , Luís F. Seoane , Ricard Solé

Plasmodium of true slime mold, Physarum polycephalum, is an amoeboid organism, which spreads with developing tubular network structure and crawls on two-dimensional plane with oscillating the cell thickness. The plasmodium transforms its…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2009-04-10 Yuki Kagawa , Atsuko Takamatsu

Despite remarkable capabilities, artificial neural networks exhibit limited flexible, generalizable intelligence. This limitation stems from their fundamental divergence from biological cognition that overlooks both neural regions'…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Boheng Liu , Ziyu Li , Qing Li , Xia Wu

Neuromorphic computing --- brainlike computing in hardware --- typically requires myriad CMOS spiking neurons interconnected by a dense mesh of nanoscale plastic synapses. Memristors are frequently citepd as strong synapse candidates due to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-09-02 David Howard , Larry Bull , Ben De Lacy Costello

The popular Physarum-inspired Algorithms (PAs) have the potential to solve challenging network optimization problems. However, the existing researches on PAs are still immature and far from being fully recognized. A major reason is that…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Yahui Sun

Human cognitive performance is constrained by limited mental resources, yet continuous computational estimation of cognitive capacity dynamics remains an open challenge. We propose a theory-driven multimodal learning framework that models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Yisak Debele , Henok Ademtew , Israel Goytom

Plasmodium of Physarum polycephalum is a large cell, visible by unaided eye, which exhibits sophisticated patterns of foraging behaviour. The plasmodium's behaviour is well interpreted in terms of computation, where data are spatially…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2012-06-25 Andrew Adamatzky