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...
可变食性范围模型中向泛化主义的缓慢演化
Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Bath, Claverton Down, Bath, BA2 7AY, United Kingdom
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IN SHORT: 通过证明是种群统计噪声（而非确定性动力学）驱动了模式形成和泛化食性的演化，解决了间接竞争下物种形成的悖论。
核心创新
- Methodology Develops a continuous-space resource-consumer model with explicit resource dynamics and evolvable dietary range, extending beyond fixed-preference Lotka-Volterra frameworks.
- Theory Demonstrates that deterministic analysis predicts homogeneous steady states (no species), but stochastic simulations with demographic noise induce persistent pattern formation interpreted as species.
- Methodology Uses Fourier analysis of linearized dynamics to predict the dominant perturbation modes (e.g., number of species) from the power spectrum, linking analytical predictions to simulation outcomes.
主要结论
- 对于固定食性范围（w=0.2），傅里叶分析预测在 kL/2π=5 处存在主导模式，这对应于在随机模拟中观察到的5个等间距物种的形成（图2，3A）。
- 在可演化食性范围模型中，动力学发生在两个时间尺度上：快速协同演化到准稳态流形，随后缓慢弛豫向均匀态。种群统计噪声阻止了这种弛豫，维持了模式。
- 泛化食性（宽w）在长时间尺度上随机演化，因为与由相同资源生产率支持的、种群规模较小的专化集群相比，它们更不易受到灭绝风险的影响。
摘要: 共享栖息地的物种会协同演化以利用可用资源，因为消费受到消费者与资源之间竞争和负反馈回路的调节。给定物种的食性范围决定了其可获取的资源，从而决定了与之竞争的其他物种。狭窄的食性范围以过度依赖少量资源为代价避免竞争；相反，广泛的食性范围提供了更多替代选择，但也增加了与其他物种竞争的机会。在此，我们研究了生态位形成数学模型中食性范围的演化。我们发现了高度路径依赖的协同演化动力学，其特征是长寿命的准稳态。最终，随机效应驱动了泛化食性的演化，正如我们在分析和模拟中所揭示的。