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finding:nis-captures-emergent-static-dynamic-patterns-such-as-gliders-in-conway-s-game-of-life-within-the-latent-spaceNIS+ captures emergent static/dynamic patterns such as 'gliders' in Conway's Game of Life within the latent space.
Yang et al. (2023) demonstration of emergent pattern recognition.
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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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- NIS+ learns macro-dynamics matching ground-truth SIR dynamics from noisy micro-level data.finding0.797Experimental result from Yang et al. (2023) reported in the survey.
- Causal emergence measured by NIS+ increases with observational noise but decreases with dynamical noise.finding0.774Insight that coarse-graining filters external noise but not intrinsic noise.
- Real brain imaging result suggesting a compressed emergent representation.
- NIS+ automatically discovers two-group macro-states in Boid model simulations matching the two boid groups.finding0.758Yang et al. (2023) experiment on emergent herding behavior.
- Yang et al. (2023) result linking EI maximization to robust generalization.
- Extends the brutal geometry thesis beyond architecture into all creative and social domains; acknowledged as not yet confirmed with certainty
- Alexander's critical assessment of the limits of current complexity science relative to his explanatory target
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