智能图推理系统自发进入临界态,持续发现新知识。
Self-Organizing Graph Reasoning Evolves into a Critical State for Continuous Discovery Through Structural-Semantic Dynamics
- 通过结构与语义熵分析,发现系统自发趋于语义主导的临界状态。
- 12%的‘意外’边持续存在,驱动跨领域创新。
- 适用于构建能长期自主探索的智能系统设计。
我们揭示了代理型图推理系统如何自发演变为一种维持持续语义发现的临界态。通过严格分析结构熵(冯诺依曼图熵)和语义熵(嵌入熵),识别出一个微妙但稳健的区间:语义熵始终主导结构熵。该相互作用由无量纲的临界发现参数量化,稳定在略小于零的值,表明语义熵始终占优。实证观察到12%的“意外”边——连接语义相距较远概念的边——为长程或跨域关联提供了证据,推动持续创新。同时,系统表现出无标度和小世界拓扑特征,并具有结构与语义测量间的负交叉相关性,强化了其与自组织临界性的类比。这些结果揭示了物理、生物与认知复杂系统中临界现象的明确平行规律,提出以熵为基础的可适应性与持续创新原则。关键在于,语义丰富性虽未被显式使用,却是持续探索的根本驱动力。研究为工程具备内在长期发现与适应能力的智能系统提供跨学科洞见与实践策略,并指明增强临界发现能力的模型训练方向。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
We report fundamental insights into how agentic graph reasoning systems spontaneously evolve toward a critical state that sustains continuous semantic discovery. By rigorously analyzing structural (Von Neumann graph entropy) and semantic (embedding) entropy, we identify a subtle yet robust regime in which semantic entropy persistently dominates over structural entropy. This interplay is quantified by a dimensionless Critical Discovery Parameter that stabilizes at a small negative value, indicating a consistent excess of semantic entropy. Empirically, we observe a stable fraction (12%) of "surprising" edges, links between semantically distant concepts, providing evidence of long-range or cross-domain connections that drive continuous innovation. Concomitantly, the system exhibits scale-free and small-world topological features, alongside a negative cross-correlation between structural and semantic measures, reinforcing the analogy to self-organized criticality. These results establish clear parallels with critical phenomena in physical, biological, and cognitive complex systems, revealing an entropy-based principle governing adaptability and continuous innovation. Crucially, semantic richness emerges as the underlying driver of sustained exploration, despite not being explicitly used by the reasoning process. Our findings provide interdisciplinary insights and practical strategies for engineering intelligent systems with intrinsic capacities for long-term discovery and adaptation, and offer insights into how model training strategies can be developed that reinforce critical discovery.
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