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17 papers

q-bio.NC2026

Convergent Evolution in Neural Representation Space: Emergent Order in Deep Belief Networks

Patrick Krauss, Achim Schilling, Andreas Maier +2

Deep Belief Networks (DBNs) learn hierarchical generative models without class supervision. Here, we ask whether this purely unsupervised process nevertheless organizes internal re…

q-bio.NC2026

Convergent Evolution in Algorithmic Space

Patrick Krauss, Achim Schilling, Andreas Maier +4

In evolutionary biology, unrelated organisms can independently evolve similar structures when exposed to similar functional demands. Here we ask whether an analogous form of conver…

q-bio.NC2026

Surviving by Serving: Functional Relevance Drives Self-Organization in Complex Adaptive Systems

Claus Metzner, Ali Ghebleh, Achim Schilling +3

Complex adaptive systems often develop organized structures without centralized control. Yet the local mechanisms by which functional organization emerges and persists remain incom…

cs.AI2026

A Differentiable Atari VCS:A Complex, Fully Known Ground Truth for Explainable AI

Andreas Maier, Siming Bayer, Patrick Krauss

Explanation requires ground truth: to verify an account of a system we must know its inner functioning-just what is missing where explainable AI (XAI) is most needed. Systems we ca…

q-bio.NC2026

Ten Years of the Stochastic Resonance Model of Tinnitus: From Phantom Perception to Adaptive Sensory Optimization

Patrick Krauss, Achim Schilling

Subjective tinnitus - the perception of sound in the absence of an external acoustic stimulus - remains one of the most debated phenomena in auditory neuroscience. In 2016, the sto…

cs.CL2026

Word Class Representations Spontaneously Emerge from Successor Representations Trained on Natural Language

Mathis Immertreu, Achim Schilling, Thomas Kinfe +1

Language models are typically trained to predict the next token in a sequence. Here, we explore an alternative predictive principle from reinforcement learning: Successor Represent…