Paper List
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Autonomous Agents Coordinating Distributed Discovery Through Emergent Artifact Exchange
This paper addresses the fundamental limitation of current AI-assisted scientific research by enabling truly autonomous, decentralized investigation w...
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D-MEM: Dopamine-Gated Agentic Memory via Reward Prediction Error Routing
This paper addresses the fundamental scalability bottleneck in LLM agentic memory systems: the O(N²) computational complexity and unbounded API token ...
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Countershading coloration in blue shark skin emerges from hierarchically organized and spatially tuned photonic architectures inside skin denticles
This paper solves the core problem of how blue sharks achieve their striking dorsoventral countershading camouflage, revealing that coloration origina...
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Human-like Object Grouping in Self-supervised Vision Transformers
This paper addresses the core challenge of quantifying how well self-supervised vision models capture human-like object grouping in natural scenes, br...
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Hierarchical pp-Adic Framework for Gene Regulatory Networks: Theory and Stability Analysis
This paper addresses the core challenge of mathematically capturing the inherent hierarchical organization and multi-scale stability of gene regulator...
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Towards unified brain-to-text decoding across speech production and perception
This paper addresses the core challenge of developing a unified brain-to-text decoding framework that works across both speech production and percepti...
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Dual-Laws Model for a theory of artificial consciousness
This paper addresses the core challenge of developing a comprehensive, testable theory of consciousness that bridges biological and artificial systems...
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Pulse desynchronization of neural populations by targeting the centroid of the limit cycle in phase space
This work addresses the core challenge of determining optimal pulse timing and intensity for desynchronizing pathological neural oscillations when the...
Geometric framework for biological evolution
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IN SHORT: This paper addresses the fundamental challenge of developing a coordinate-independent, geometric description of evolutionary dynamics that bridges genotype and phenotype spaces, revealing evolution as a learning process.
核心创新
- Methodology Establishes a generally covariant framework for evolutionary dynamics that operates consistently across genotype and phenotype spaces, enabling coordinate-independent analysis.
- Theory Demonstrates through maximum entropy principle that the inverse metric tensor equals the covariance matrix, transforming the Lande equation into a covariant gradient ascent equation.
- Methodology Models evolution as a learning process where the specific optimization algorithm is determined by the functional relationship g(κ) between metric tensor and noise covariance.
主要结论
- The maximum entropy principle yields fundamental identification: g^{αr,βs} = c^{αr,βs} (inverse metric equals genotypic covariance matrix).
- The Lande equation transforms to covariant gradient ascent: dx̄^i/dt = G^{ij}(x̄) ∂ℱ(x̄)/∂x̄^j, where G^{ij} = C^{ij} (inverse phenotype metric equals phenotypic covariance).
- Evolution implements specific learning algorithms determined by functional relation g(κ) between metric and noise covariance, with three regimes identified: quantum (α=1), efficient learning (α=1/2), and equilibration (α=0).
摘要: We develop a generally covariant description of evolutionary dynamics that operates consistently in both genotype and phenotype spaces. We show that the maximum entropy principle yields a fundamental identification between the inverse metric tensor and the covariance matrix, revealing the Lande equation as a covariant gradient ascent equation. This demonstrates that evolution can be modeled as a learning process on the fitness landscape, with the specific learning algorithm determined by the functional relation between the metric tensor and the noise covariance arising from microscopic dynamics. While the metric (or the inverse genotypic covariance matrix) has been extensively characterized empirically, the noise covariance and its associated observable (the covariance of evolutionary changes) have never been directly measured. This poses the experimental challenge of determining the functional form relating metric to noise covariance.