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Main Authors: Yang, Mingzhe, Wang, Zhipeng, Liu, Kaiwei, Rong, Yingqi, Yuan, Bing, Zhang, Jiang
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Published: 2023
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.09952
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author Yang, Mingzhe
Wang, Zhipeng
Liu, Kaiwei
Rong, Yingqi
Yuan, Bing
Zhang, Jiang
author_facet Yang, Mingzhe
Wang, Zhipeng
Liu, Kaiwei
Rong, Yingqi
Yuan, Bing
Zhang, Jiang
contents Quantifying emergence and modeling emergent dynamics in a data-driven manner for complex dynamical systems is challenging due to the lack of direct observations at the micro-level. Thus, it's crucial to develop a framework to identify emergent phenomena and capture emergent dynamics at the macro-level using available data. Inspired by the theory of causal emergence (CE), this paper introduces a machine learning framework to learn macro-dynamics in an emergent latent space and quantify the degree of CE. The framework maximizes effective information, resulting in a macro-dynamics model with enhanced causal effects. Experimental results on simulated and real data demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed framework. It quantifies degrees of CE effectively under various conditions and reveals distinct influences of different noise types. It can learn a one-dimensional coarse-grained macro-state from fMRI data, to represent complex neural activities during movie clip viewing. Furthermore, improved generalization to different test environments is observed across all simulation data.
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spellingShingle Finding emergence in data by maximizing effective information
Yang, Mingzhe
Wang, Zhipeng
Liu, Kaiwei
Rong, Yingqi
Yuan, Bing
Zhang, Jiang
Physics and Society
Machine Learning
Quantifying emergence and modeling emergent dynamics in a data-driven manner for complex dynamical systems is challenging due to the lack of direct observations at the micro-level. Thus, it's crucial to develop a framework to identify emergent phenomena and capture emergent dynamics at the macro-level using available data. Inspired by the theory of causal emergence (CE), this paper introduces a machine learning framework to learn macro-dynamics in an emergent latent space and quantify the degree of CE. The framework maximizes effective information, resulting in a macro-dynamics model with enhanced causal effects. Experimental results on simulated and real data demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed framework. It quantifies degrees of CE effectively under various conditions and reveals distinct influences of different noise types. It can learn a one-dimensional coarse-grained macro-state from fMRI data, to represent complex neural activities during movie clip viewing. Furthermore, improved generalization to different test environments is observed across all simulation data.
title Finding emergence in data by maximizing effective information
topic Physics and Society
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.09952