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most citedEvolving Neural Networks Reveal Emergent Collective Behavior from Minimal Agent Interactions

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cs.RO2026

A Schema Bounded Language Model for Refining Robot Policies Without Destabilizing Local Learning

Chongwen Dong, Mithun Paul Saint-Germain, Pinjari Asif +1

This paper addresses navigation by composite heterogeneous robots in a decentralized system when policy reasoning and local control operate at different update levels. In a NetLogo…

cs.NE2026

Petri Net Description of Biological Neural Circuits for Fast Hardware Prototyping

Carlo daCunha, Rodrigo Pena, Marcos Turqueti

Current approaches to simulating biological neural circuits, whether on general-purpose hardware or dedicated neuromorphic platforms, remain constrained by fixed-timestep numerical…

physics.soc-ph2026

Evolved Collectives Combine Complex Internal Representations with Simple Outputs

Guilherme S. Y. Giardini, John F. Hardy, Carlo daCunha

Collective intelligence emerges from local interactions among agents with limited information, yet how internal controller organization relates to emergent collective order remains…

cs.CR2025

Using Preformed Resistive Random Access Memory to Create a Strong Physically Unclonable Function

Jack Garrard, John F. Hardy, Carlo daCunha +1

Physically Unclonable Functions (PUFs) are a promising solution for identity verification and asymmetric encryption. In this paper, a new Resistive Random Access Memory (ReRAM) PUF…

physics.app-ph2025

Impact of Switching Layer Architecture on Power Consumption in RRAM

John F. Hardy, Jack A. Garrard, Guilherme S. Y. Giardini +1

This work demonstrates that porous helical WOx architectures enable a distinct low-power regime for planar ITO/WOx/ITO resistive random-access devices. While thin film and helical…

physics.soc-ph2025

Thermodynamics of Innovation: A Statistical Mechanics Framework of Social Adoption

Guilherme S. Y. Giardini, Carlo R. daCunha

We develop a thermodynamic framework for modeling innovation adoption and abandonment dynamics using statistical mechanics. Starting from a mathematical model for an adoption distr…

nlin.AO2024★ 1 cited

Evolving Neural Networks Reveal Emergent Collective Behavior from Minimal Agent Interactions

Guilherme S. Y. Giardini, John F. Hardy, Carlo R. da Cunha

Understanding the mechanisms behind emergent behaviors in multi-agent systems is critical for advancing fields such as swarm robotics and artificial intelligence. In this study, we…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

Optimizing the Optical Properties of Tin Oxide Aerogels through Defect Passivation

John F. Hardy, Madison King, Stephanie Hurst +1

Tin oxide aerogels were synthesized using an epoxide-assisted technique and characterized with Fourier transform infrared, X-ray diffraction, and UV-Vis to study the effects of pos…

cond-mat.stat-mech2024

Chain Reaction of Ideas: Can Radioactive Decay Predict Technological Innovation?

Guilherme S. Y. Giardini, Carlo R. da Cunha

This work demonstrates the application of a birth-death Markov process, inspired by radioactive decay, to capture the dynamics of innovation processes. Leveraging the Bass diffusio…

physics.bio-ph2023

Velocities of Mesenchymal Cells May be Ill-Defined

Guilherme S. Y. Giardini, Gilberto L. Thomas, Carlo R. da Cunha +1

The dynamics of single cell migration on flat surfaces is usually modeled by a Langevin-like problem consisting of ballistic motion for short periods and random walk. for long peri…

cond-mat.mes-hall2023

Machine Learning Methods for Background Potential Estimation in 2DEGs

Carlo da Cunha, Nobuyuki Aoki, David Ferry +2

In the realm of quantum-effect devices and materials, two-dimensional electron gases (2DEGs) stand as fundamental structures that promise transformative technologies. However, the…