Search Results for author: Alessandro Fontana

Found 5 papers, 0 papers with code

Why evolution needs the old: a theory of ageing as adaptive force

no code implementations29 Jan 2024 Alessandro Fontana, Marios Kyriazis

Our hypothesis is that ageing is, at least in part, caused by the cumulative effect of all the experiments carried out by evolution to improve a species' design.

And/or trade-off in artificial neurons: impact on adversarial robustness

no code implementations15 Feb 2021 Alessandro Fontana

A crucial component of our method is the comparison between a neuron's output distribution when fed with the actual dataset and a randomised version called the "scrambled dataset."

Adversarial Robustness BIG-bench Machine Learning

Towards a general model for psychopathology

no code implementations5 Sep 2019 Alessandro Fontana

This approach is in contrast with experimental evidence, which suggests on one hand that traumas of various kind are often present in the anamnesis of patients and, on the other, that the gene variants implicated are shared across a wide range of diagnoses.

An artificial neural network to find correlation patterns in an arbitrary number of variables

no code implementations21 Jun 2016 Alessandro Fontana

The central idea is to i) design a function of the variables that can take different forms depending on a set of parameters, ii) calculate the difference between a statistics associated to the function computed on the data set and the same statistics computed on a randomised version of the data set, called "scrambled" data set, and iii) optimise the parameters to maximise this difference.

Quadripolar Relational Model: a framework for the description of borderline and narcissistic personality disorders

no code implementations18 Dec 2015 Alessandro Fontana

The model, which is enriched with ideas borrowed from the field of computer science, leads to a new therapeutic proposal for psychological traumas and personality disorders.

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