arXiv:2503.15130q-bio.NCcs.AI2025-03

提出生物学习的底层机制:通过感官信号负反馈实现本地化学习。

A Foundational Theory for Decentralized Sensory Learning

  • 用负反馈控制解释感官信号,无需全局误差信号
  • 最早单细胞生物已具备此学习机制,可演化为多细胞分工
  • 适合对神经科学、生物启发学习感兴趣的读者

在神经科学与人工智能中,主流框架依赖外部误差测量和全局学习算法。基于进化对细胞适应机制起源的推断,我们重新诠释感官信号的本质,将大脑视为负反馈控制系统,从而实现无需全局误差修正的局部学习算法。足够的感官活动最小值即可作为网络的完整奖励信号,且是生物学习发生的必要充分条件。该机制可能早在地球最早的单细胞生命中就已存在,并在多细胞生物中扩展为细胞分工。现有证据表明,神经系统演化可能是为了更有效地传递细胞间信号以支持分工。因此,这一源于早期单细胞生命的负反馈学习原则,被放大并成为现代生物大脑学习的基础。我们展示了从单细胞到人类的多种生物场景,该原则如何合理解释感官信号意义,与当前神经科学理论关联,并应用于身体控制问题。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

In both neuroscience and artificial intelligence, popular functional frameworks and neural network formulations operate by making use of extrinsic error measurements and global learning algorithms. Through a set of conjectures based on evolutionary insights on the origin of cellular adaptive mechanisms, we reinterpret the core meaning of sensory signals to allow the brain to be interpreted as a negative feedback control system, and show how this could lead to local learning algorithms without the need for global error correction metrics. Thereby, a sufficiently good minima in sensory activity can be the complete reward signal of the network, as well as being both necessary and sufficient for biological learning to arise. We show that this method of learning was likely already present in the earliest unicellular life forms on earth. We show evidence that the same principle holds and scales to multicellular organisms where it in addition can lead to division of labour between cells. Available evidence shows that the evolution of the nervous system likely was an adaptation to more effectively communicate intercellular signals to support such division of labour. We therefore propose that the same learning principle that evolved already in the earliest unicellular life forms, i.e. negative feedback control of externally and internally generated sensor signals, has simply been scaled up to become a fundament of the learning we see in biological brains today. We illustrate diverse biological settings, from the earliest unicellular organisms to humans, where this operational principle appears to be a plausible interpretation of the meaning of sensor signals in biology, how this relates to current neuroscientific theories and findings, and how it can be applied to solve body control.

神经科学负反馈生物学习分布式学习

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