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Who Pays for the Knowledge Models Copy? Model Collapse as Rogers' Paradox
Generative models trained on the output of earlier models lose knowledge across generations, rare knowledge first.Can AI Do Formal Demography? Why Vaccinating the Oldest Saves Both the Most Lives and the Most Years of Life
Can AI contribute to formal demography?Counting approximate breakpoint medians of random genomes
Unsigned linear unichromosomal genomes with genes labeled 1, . . . , n are represented by permutations of these labels, whose adjacencies are the unordered pairs of genes occurring consecutively.Earth embeddings are decomposable records of the land surface
Ecological monitoring, carbon accounting and biodiversity assessment increasingly rely on annual Earth embeddings--learned vectors that compress a year of satellite observation for every ten-meter…Report the tolerance, not the count: exact phylogenetic distance deconvolution with incomplete references
Phylogenetic distance deconvolution represents mixture-to-reference distances by weighted sources placed on a reference tree.LLM Evolution in a Simple Simulated Market
Arguments that AI systems will evolve in harmful ways are largely made in the abstract.Lossless Reductions and Hybrid Sampling for Phylogeny Using the Maximum Compatibility Criterion
Maximum compatibility provides a criterion for phylogenetic reconstruction in which the objective is to retain a maximum set of mutually compatible characters.Deep Generative Models for Phylogenetic Inference with Complex Evolutionary Processes
Inference of phylogenetic trees from sequences plays a central role in understanding evolutionary relationships, with applications ranging from tracking pathogen spread to reconstructing the history…An evolutionary origin of collective decision making in humans and machines
Groups of individuals can solve collective problems more accurately than any single member, by aggregating their opinions.Evolutionary foraging in grids: Intermittent search dynamics emerge in finite, depletable landscapes
How search strategies evolve in finite, depletable landscapes remains a question in foraging theory.Stochastic gradient descent on the epigenetic landscape: a unified framework for cellular plasticity, tumor heterogeneity, and the asymptotic irrelevance of fitness
Phenotypic plasticity, the ability of cells to switch between states, is central to development, differentiation, and therapy resistance.Boids of a Feather Flock Together - Evolving Prey Behaviours Under Different Predator Attack Strategies
Flocking and schooling are thought to have evolved partly as defences against predation, but how prey should balance social and escape tendencies may depend on the predator's hunting strategy.Hybrid epidemic simulation framework coupling equation-based and individual-based models
Mass gathering events like concerts, sports matches, and festivals bring many people into close contact within a short period, creating localized bursts of infection that can shape epidemic outcomes…Structured Population Models for Follicular Development
Ovarian follicle development has been modeled either by compartmental models, where developmental stages are represented by discrete compartments, or by physiologically structured population models…SAGE: A sampling-aware global evaluation benchmark for species distribution modeling
Knowing where species occur is fundamental for biodiversity research and conservation.Self-Replicating Neural Cellular Automata: Quantifying Emergent Phenotypic and Genotypic Diversity in an OpenEnded Substrate
We study an in-silico substrate in which every pixel of a two-channel cellular-automata grid carries a tiny neural network (an agent) that senses its Moore neighborhood.The evolution of sex for artificial intelligence: a population-genetic framework for multigenerational model populations
Some aspects of AI development resemble a population process in which models are specialised, retrained on the output of peers, or combined by averaging weights.Big Brains and Changing Environments: Cause or Consequence?
Large brains are metabolically costly, and associations with changing environments do not imply they evolved there, as the Cognitive Buffer Hypothesis (CBH) would suggest.NOC NOC, who's there? Clustering systems of tree-child and normal networks
Clustering systems provide a natural way to encode structural information contained in phylogenetic networks.BME-like Quartet Weights for Phylogenetic Trees
Like pairwise distances, quartets can be highly redundant and correlated on a phylogenetic tree, and their number grows on the order of n^4 rather than n^2.