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New P-VAE model links information theory to metabolic cost

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Researchers have developed a Poisson variational autoencoder (P-VAE) that incorporates a metabolic cost into information processing theories. This model links abstract information-theoretic quantities like coding rate to biophysical variables such as firing rate, enabling a trade-off between coding fidelity and energy expenditure. Unlike standard Gaussian VAEs, the P-VAE's Kullback-Leibler divergence term becomes proportional to prior firing rates, creating an emergent metabolic cost that penalizes high baseline activity. This approach offers a foundation for a resource-constrained theory of computation. AI

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New P-VAE model links information theory to metabolic cost

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  1. arXiv stat.ML TIER_1 English(EN) · Hadi Vafaii, Jacob L. Yates ·

    Metabolic cost of information processing in Poisson variational autoencoders

    arXiv:2602.13421v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Computation in biological systems is fundamentally energy-constrained, yet standard theories of computation treat energy as freely available. Here, we argue that variational free energy minimization under a Poisson assumption of…

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