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Collective behavior from surprise minimization
Conor Heins, Beren Millidge, Lancelot da Costa +3
Collective motion is ubiquitous in nature; groups of animals, such as fish, birds, and ungulates appear to move as a whole, exhibiting a rich behavioral repertoire that ranges from…
Optimising collective accuracy among rational individuals in sequential decision-making with competition
Richard P Mann
Theoretical results underpinning the Wisdom of Crowds, such as the Condorcet Jury Theorem, point to substantial accuracy gains through aggregation of decisions or opinions, but the…
Collective decision-making under changing social environments among agents adapted to sparse connectivity
Richard P. Mann
Humans and other animals often follow the decisions made by others because these are indicative of the quality of possible choices, resulting in `social response rules': observed r…
Modeling the effects of environmental and perceptual uncertainty using deterministic reinforcement learning dynamics with partial observability
Wolfram Barfuss, Richard P. Mann
Assessing the systemic effects of uncertainty that arises from agents' partial observation of the true states of the world is critical for understanding a wide range of scenarios.…
Optimal incentives for collective intelligence
Richard P. Mann, Dirk Helbing
Collective intelligence is the ability of a group to perform more effectively than any individual alone. Diversity among group members is a key condition for the emergence of colle…
Towards a fully predictive model of flight paths in pigeons navigating in the familiar area: prediction across differing individuals
Richard P. Mann
This paper will detail the basis of our previously developed predictive model for pigeon flight paths based on observations of the specific individual being predicted. We will then…
The entropic basis of collective behaviour
Richard P. Mann, Roman Garnett
In this paper, we identify a radically new viewpoint on the collective behaviour of groups of intelligent agents. We first develop a highly general abstract model for the possible…
A note on the duality between interaction responses and mutual positions in flocking and schooling
Andrea Perna, Guillaume Gregoire, Richard P. Mann
Background: Recent research in animal behaviour has contributed to determine how alignment, turning responses, and changes of speed mediate flocking and schooling interactions in d…
Bayesian Optimal Active Search and Surveying
Roman Garnett, Yamuna Krishnamurthy, Xuehan Xiong +2
We consider two active binary-classification problems with atypical objectives. In the first, active search, our goal is to actively uncover as many members of a given class as pos…