Planning with Biological Neurons and Synapses

Autor: Francesco D'Amore, Daniel Mitropolsky, Pierluigi Crescenzi, Emanuele Natale, Christos H. Papadimitriou
Přispěvatelé: Combinatorics, Optimization and Algorithms for Telecommunications (COATI), COMmunications, Réseaux, systèmes Embarqués et Distribués (Laboratoire I3S - COMRED), Laboratoire d'Informatique, Signaux, et Systèmes de Sophia Antipolis (I3S), Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (... - 2019) (UNS), COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (... - 2019) (UNS), COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Laboratoire d'Informatique, Signaux, et Systèmes de Sophia Antipolis (I3S), COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Inria Sophia Antipolis - Méditerranée (CRISAM), Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria), Department of Computer Science, Columbia University, Columbia University, New York, USA, Gran Sasso Science Institute (GSSI), Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Inria & Université Cote d'Azur, CNRS, I3S, Sophia Antipolis, France, Gran Sasso Science Institute (L'Aquila, Italie), Department of Computer Science, Columbia University, New York, Inria Sophia Antipolis - Méditerranée (CRISAM), Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-COMmunications, Réseaux, systèmes Embarqués et Distribués (Laboratoire I3S - COMRED), Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (1965 - 2019) (UNS), COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (1965 - 2019) (UNS), COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA), Columbia University [New York]
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: [Research Report] Inria & Université Cote d'Azur, CNRS, I3S, Sophia Antipolis, France; Gran Sasso Science Institute (L'Aquila, Italie); Department of Computer Science, Columbia University, New York. 2021
Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2022
Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2022, Feb 2022, Vancouver, Canada. ⟨10.1609/aaai.v36i1.19875⟩
DOI: 10.1609/aaai.v36i1.19875⟩
Popis: Virtual Conference; International audience; We revisit the planning problem in the blocks world, and we implement a known heuristic for this task. Importantly, our implementation is biologically plausible, in the sense that it is carried out exclusively through the spiking of neurons. Even though much has been accomplished in the blocks world over the past five decades, we believe that this is the first algorithm of its kind. The input is a sequence of symbols encoding an initial set of block stacks as well as a target set, and the output is a sequence of motion commands such as "put the top block in stack 1 on the table". The program is written in the Assembly Calculus, a recently proposed computational framework meant to model computation in the brain by bridging the gap between neural activity and cognitive function. Its elementary objects are assemblies of neurons (stable sets of neurons whose simultaneous firing signifies that the subject is thinking of an object, concept, word, etc.), its commands include project and merge, and its execution model is based on widely accepted tenets of neuroscience. A program in this framework essentially sets up a dynamical system of neurons and synapses that eventually, with high probability, accomplishes the task. The purpose of this work is to establish empirically that reasonably large programs in the Assembly Calculus can execute correctly and reliably; and that rather realistic-if idealized-higher cognitive functions, such as planning in the blocks world, can be implemented successfully by such programs.
Databáze: OpenAIRE