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We present properties of Lotka-Volterra equations describing ecological competition among a large number of competing species. First we extend to the case of a non-homogeneous niche space stability conditions for solutions representing…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2009-07-22 Emilio Hernandez-Garcia , Cristobal Lopez , Simone Pigolotti , Ken H. Andersen

This article presents an educational proposal based on the computational implementation of a model of interaction between particles of different types, as a tool for the development of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and…

Physics Education · Physics 2025-03-12 Matías Hernández

Active learning agents typically employ a query selection algorithm which solely considers the agent's learning objectives. However, this may be insufficient in more realistic human domains. This work uses imitation learning to enable an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Kalesha Bullard , Yannick Schroecker , Sonia Chernova

Many studies were recently done for investigating the properties of contextual language models but surprisingly, only a few of them consider the properties of these models in terms of semantic similarity. In this article, we first focus on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-25 Olivier Ferret

Thousands of different forms (words) are associated with thousands of different meanings (concepts) in a language computer model. Reasonable agreement with reality is found for the number of languages in a family and the Hamming distances…

Physics and Society · Physics 2008-05-19 Soeren Wichmann , Dietrich Stauffer , Christian Schulze , F. Welington S. Lima , Eric W Holman

Competition between synapses arises in some forms of correlation-based plasticity. Here we propose a game theory-inspired model of synaptic interactions whose dynamics is driven by competition between synapses in their weak and strong…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2011-10-19 Ajaz Ahmad Bhat , Gaurang Mahajan , Anita Mehta

The success of pretrained word embeddings has motivated their use in the biomedical domain, with contextualized embeddings yielding remarkable results in several biomedical NLP tasks. However, there is a lack of research on quantifying…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Vladimir Araujo , Andrés Carvallo , Carlos Aspillaga , Camilo Thorne , Denis Parra

Conversational Spoken Language Models (SLMs) are emerging as a promising paradigm for real-time speech interaction. However, their capacity of temporal dynamics, including the ability to manage timing, tempo and simultaneous speaking,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-04 Kai-Wei Chang , En-Pei Hu , Chun-Yi Kuan , Wenze Ren , Wei-Chih Chen , Guan-Ting Lin , Yu Tsao , Shao-Hua Sun , Hung-yi Lee , James Glass

A microscopic model is developed, within the frame of the theory of quantitative traits, to study both numerically and analytically the combined effect of competition and assortativity on the sympatric speciation process, i.e. speciation in…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2007-05-23 Franco Bagnoli , Carlo Guardiani

We study the mechanism design problem in the setting where agents are rewarded using information only. This problem is motivated by the increasing interest in secure multiparty computation techniques. More specifically, we consider the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-28 Simina Brânzei , Claudio Orlandi , Guang Yang

This work develops a computational model (by Automata Networks) of phonological similarity effects involved in the formation of word-meaning associations on artificial populations of speakers. Classical studies show that in recalling…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-04-07 Javier Vera

I study symmetric competitions in which each player chooses an arbitrary distribution over a one-dimensional performance index, subject to a convex cost. I establish existence of a symmetric equilibrium, document various properties it must…

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In health psychology, Behaviour Change Theories(BCTs) play an important role in modelling human goal achievement in adverse environments. Some of these theories use concepts that are also used in computational modelling of cognition and…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Catriona M. Kennedy

The known three-component reaction-diffusion system modeling competition and co-existence of different language speakers is under study. A modification of this system is proposed, which is examined by Lie symmetry method; furthermore exact…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2021-01-05 Roman Cherniha , Vasyl' Davydovych

The distribution of living languages is investigated and scaling relations are found for the diversity of languages as a function of the country area and population. These results are compared with data from Ecology and from computer…

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We introduce a novel non-cooperative game to analyse opinion formation and resistance, incorporating principles from social psychology such as confirmation bias, resource constraints, and influence penalties. Our simulation features Large…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Amin Qasmi , Usman Naseem , Mehwish Nasim

Resource competition is a fundamental interaction in natural communities.However little is known about competition in spatial environments where organisms are able to regulate resource distributions. Here, we analyze the competition of two…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2011-02-24 Alexei B. Ryabov , Bernd Blasius

Crosslingual transfer is crucial to contemporary language models' multilingual capabilities, but how it occurs is not well understood. We ask what happens to a monolingual language model when it begins to be trained on a second language.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Catherine Arnett , Tyler A. Chang , James A. Michaelov , Benjamin K. Bergen

Populations have often been perceived as a structuring component for language to emerge and evolve: the larger the population, the more structured the language. While this observation is widespread in the sociolinguistic literature, it has…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Mathieu Rita , Florian Strub , Jean-Bastien Grill , Olivier Pietquin , Emmanuel Dupoux

Traditionally, the formation of vocabularies has been studied by agent-based models (specially, the Naming Game) in which random pairs of agents negotiate word-meaning associations at each discrete time step. This paper proposes a first…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-04-08 Javier Vera