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finding:causal-emergence-measured-by-nis-increases-with-observational-noise-but-decreases-with-dynamical-noiseCausal emergence measured by NIS+ increases with observational noise but decreases with dynamical noise.
Insight that coarse-graining filters external noise but not intrinsic noise.
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extracted_from(2023) · Bing Yuan · Jiang Zhang · Aobo Lyu · Jiayun Wu +5
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- Central claim of the machine-learning section, summarizing the contribution.
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- Causal emergence in biological systemsmembers_ofExamines how macro-scale causal power exceeds micro-scale in living and learning systems.
- Causal emergence in learning agentsmembers_ofUses effective information (EI) and coarse-graining to link causal emergence with RL and biological learning.
- Framework using effective information (EI) and NIS+ to automatically discover macro-scale dynamics from micro-level data, validated on fMRI, Conway's Game of Life, and SIR models.
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- Core definition from §1.
- Assertion that the correlation between causal emergence and learning constitutes another way biological and artificial intelligences converge.
- Claim by Comolatti & Hoel (2022) endorsed by this survey.
- Representational dynamics of causal emergence align with reward improvement in most tasks.finding0.811The trajectory of causal emergence through training mirrors the reward improvement curve across the majority of tested environments.
- Example from Hoel et al. (2013) replicated in the survey.
- Prior empirical observation from biological systems; motivates investigation in artificial agents.
- Cross-fertilization claim made in discussion.
- Authors' interpretive assertion that the observed alignment reveals a novel organizing principle of neural representation dynamics.