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Isomorphic Functionalities between Ant Colony and Ensemble Learning: Part III -- Gradient Descent, Neural Plasticity, and the Emergence of Deep Intelligence

2026-04-03 · Ernest Fokoué, Gregory Babbitt, Yuval Levental arxiv

In Parts I and II of this series, we established isomorphisms between ant colony decision-making and two major families of ensemble learning: random forests (parallel, variance reduction) and boosting (sequential, bias reduction). Here we complete the trilogy by demonstrating that the fundamental learning algorithm underlying deep neural networks -- stochastic gradient descent -- is mathematically isomorphic to the generational learning dynamics of ant colonies. We prove that pheromone evolution across generations follows the same update equations as weight evolution during gradient descent, with evaporation rates corresponding to learning rates, colony fitness corresponding to negative loss, and recruitment waves corresponding to backpropagation passes. We further show that neural plasticity mechanisms -- long-term potentiation, long-term depression, synaptic pruning, and neurogenesis -- have direct analogs in colony-level adaptation: trail reinforcement, evaporation, abandonment, and new trail formation. Comprehensive simulations confirm that ant colonies trained on environmental tasks exhibit learning curves indistinguishable from neural networks trained on analogous problems. This final isomorphism reveals that all three major paradigms of machine learning -- parallel ensembles, sequential ensembles, and gradient-based deep learning -- have direct analogs in the collective intelligence of social insects, suggesting a unified theory of learning that transcends substrate. The ant colony, we conclude, is not merely analogous to learning algorithms; it is a living embodiment of the fundamental principles of learning itself.

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