发现生物与人工系统共用的智能组织原理:空间重映射与误差修正导航。
Remapping and navigation of an embedding space via error minimization: a fundamental organizational principle of cognition in natural and artificial systems
- 通过嵌入空间重映射与误差最小化导航实现认知
- 从细胞到大模型均遵循相同动态机制
- 适合研究跨尺度智能与类脑系统设计者
新兴的多元智能领域试图整合不同来源、组成和基底的智能体的问题解决机制。从亚细胞化学网络到生物集群,再到进化、工程及混合系统,假设存在可缩放不变的决策原则。我们提出,自然与人工系统中的认知可由两个同等重要的不变性共同刻画:(1) 嵌入空间的重映射,(2) 在这些空间中的导航。生物集体(从单个细胞到完整有机体)通过重映射转录、形态、生理或三维空间以维持稳态并再生结构,同时通过分布式误差校正进行导航。现代人工智能系统,包括Transformer、扩散模型和神经元胞自动机,通过将数据映射到潜在嵌入空间,并通过上下文化迭代优化,执行类似过程。我们认为,这种通过迭代误差最小化实现嵌入空间重映射与导航的双重机制,构成了一种与基底无关的认知不变性。识别这一共享机制不仅揭示了生命系统与人工模型间的深层相似性,还为跨尺度构建自适应智能提供了统一框架。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
The emerging field of diverse intelligence seeks an integrated view of problem-solving in agents of very different provenance, composition, and substrates. From subcellular chemical networks to swarms of organisms, and across evolved, engineered, and chimeric systems, it is hypothesized that scale-invariant principles of decision-making can be discovered. We propose that cognition in both natural and synthetic systems can be characterized and understood by the interplay between two equally important invariants: (1) the remapping of embedding spaces, and (2) the navigation within these spaces. Biological collectives, from single cells to entire organisms (and beyond), remap transcriptional, morphological, physiological, or 3D spaces to maintain homeostasis and regenerate structure, while navigating these spaces through distributed error correction. Modern Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems, including transformers, diffusion models, and neural cellular automata enact analogous processes by remapping data into latent embeddings and refining them iteratively through contextualization. We argue that this dual principle - remapping and navigation of embedding spaces via iterative error minimization - constitutes a substrate-independent invariant of cognition. Recognizing this shared mechanism not only illuminates deep parallels between living systems and artificial models, but also provides a unifying framework for engineering adaptive intelligence across scales.
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