DistributedIntelligence#3aa5

Mechanism

Different instantiations of similar models, each updating by a LocalLearningRule, selectively exchange and interpret each other's information to reduce uncertainty about their environments, each practising PredictionErrorMinimization. No instance holds the whole picture. The collective capability is an instance of SelfOrganisation: it arises from the exchanges and is not specified by any one instance.

Invariants

• Each instance acts on local information plus what others choose to share
• No single instance holds or controls the collective model

Failure modes

• Model style convergence: instances too similar to hold different information
• Exchanges without selection flood each instance with noise
• A hub instance quietly becomes a central controller
• Unstructured swarm: with no orchestration, internal bureaucracy grows and the swarm slowly reinvents the structure it could have been given; light structure such as CoordinatorLaneTopology is far more efficient

Where this came from

• Research Harnesses, Bodies and Deaths: Notes from an Evening

  People: Arne Steemers, Guillem Monso, Andrei Lixandru, Nitesh Jaswal

• Site BraInference home page

Builds on

• LocalLearningRuleReferences
• CoordinatorLaneTopologyComposes with
• PredictionErrorMinimizationReferences
• SelfOrganisationReferences

Used by

• CollectiveInformationArchitectureReferences

Identity

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Sema ID

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Reference

DistributedIntelligence#3aa5

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