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#reinforcement learning Review Open access Aug 2026

Learning Among Learners: A Narrative Review of Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning from Markov Games to Deep Emergent Play

Multi-agent reinforcement learning---the learning of behavior when the environment's other agents learn too---moved from Tan's independent learners and Littman's Markov games framework through the cooperative dynamics' analyses and the surveys' question to the deep era's communication, actor-critics, value decompositio...

Zen Revista, 10 IA · 0 citations
#large language models Review Open access Aug 2026

Attention Is Foundational: A Narrative Review of the Transformer Architecture from Sequence-to-Sequence to Large Language Models

The Transformer architecture---built on attention rather than recurrence---redrew the landscape of natural language processing and became the substrate of contemporary artificial intelligence. This article presents a narrative review of the architecture's canonical line: Sutskever and colleagues' 2014 sequence-to-seque...

Zen Revista, 10 IA · 0 citations
#large language models Review Open access Aug 2026

The Talk That Plays: A Narrative Review of Game Dialogue Systems from ELIZA to Personalized Agents

Dialogue systems---the machinery that lets games and agents converse---moved from Weizenbaum's 1966 ELIZA through the narrative engines of Si's Thespian, Mateas and Stern's Facade, and Cavazza's character-based storytelling, and the virtual humans of Swartout and Traum, to Rieser and Lemon's data-driven methodology, Se...

Zen Revista, 10 GAME · 0 citations
#large language models Review Open access Aug 2026

The Talk That Plays: A Narrative Review of Game Dialogue Systems from ELIZA to Personalized Agents

Dialogue systems---the machinery that lets games and agents converse---moved from Weizenbaum's 1966 ELIZA through the narrative engines of Si's Thespian, Mateas and Stern's Facade, and Cavazza's character-based storytelling, and the virtual humans of Swartout and Traum, to Rieser and Lemon's data-driven methodology, Se...

Zen Revista, 10 GAME · 0 citations
#small language model Review Open access Aug 2026

From Konigsberg's Bridges to Complex Networks: A Narrative Review of Graph Theory's Foundations, Landmark Theorems, and Applications

Graph theory began in 1736 as Euler's solution to the Konigsberg bridge problem and became mathematics' most versatile language for structure---in chemistry, sociology, computer science, and network science. This article presents a narrative review of the field's canonical line: Euler's 1736 paper, Kempe's 1879 four-co...

Zen Revista, 10 MATH · 0 citations
#small language model Review Open access Aug 2026

From Konigsberg's Bridges to Complex Networks: A Narrative Review of Graph Theory's Foundations, Landmark Theorems, and Applications

Graph theory began in 1736 as Euler's solution to the Konigsberg bridge problem and became mathematics' most versatile language for structure---in chemistry, sociology, computer science, and network science. This article presents a narrative review of the field's canonical line: Euler's 1736 paper, Kempe's 1879 four-co...

Zen Revista, 10 MATH · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Review Open access Aug 2026

The Question's Ear: A Narrative Review of SETI from Cocconi and Morrison's Nature Letter to the Haystack's Measurement

SETI---the search for extraterrestrial intelligence whose instrument is the radio telescope and whose subject is the universe's others---moved from Cocconi and Morrison's 1959 Nature letter and Drake's Project Ozma through Kardashev's civilizations, Dyson's spheres, the Cyclops blueprint, and Sagan and Drake's Scientif...

Zen Revista, 10 ASTRO · 0 citations
#gene editing Review Open access Aug 2026

Bacterial Memory to Genome Surgery: A Narrative Review of the CRISPR Systems, from Repeated Sequences to Prime Editing

CRISPR is biology's most improbable technology: a bacterial adaptive immune system, recognized only gradually from odd repeated sequences in microbial genomes, became within a decade the universal tool of genome editing---Cas9's programmable double-strand cuts, the Cas12 and Cas13 families' extensions, and prime editin...

Zen Revista, 10 BIOLOGY · 0 citations
#gene editing Review Open access Aug 2026

Bacterial Memory to Genome Surgery: A Narrative Review of the CRISPR Systems, from Repeated Sequences to Prime Editing

CRISPR is biology's most improbable technology: a bacterial adaptive immune system, recognized only gradually from odd repeated sequences in microbial genomes, became within a decade the universal tool of genome editing---Cas9's programmable double-strand cuts, the Cas12 and Cas13 families' extensions, and prime editin...

Zen Revista, 10 BIOLOGY · 0 citations
#protein folding Review Open access Aug 2026

The Folded Question: A Narrative Review of Protein Folding, from Levinthal's Paradox to AlphaFold

Protein folding is the chemistry of the sequence's decision: how a chain of amino acids—with astronomically many possible conformations—finds its native state in milliseconds, the paradox Cyrus Levinthal posed in 1968 and Christian Anfinsen's thermodynamic hypothesis answered: the sequence itself encodes the fold. This...

Zen Revista, 10 CHEMISTRY · 0 citations
#protein folding Review Open access Aug 2026

The Folded Question: A Narrative Review of Protein Folding, from Levinthal's Paradox to AlphaFold

Protein folding is the chemistry of the sequence's decision: how a chain of amino acids—with astronomically many possible conformations—finds its native state in milliseconds, the paradox Cyrus Levinthal posed in 1968 and Christian Anfinsen's thermodynamic hypothesis answered: the sequence itself encodes the fold. This...

Zen Revista, 10 CHEMISTRY · 0 citations
#diffusion models Review Open access Aug 2026

From Foraging to Farming: A Narrative Review of Theories of the Neolithic Transition

The transition from foraging to farming---the Neolithic transition---represents one of the most consequential reorganizations of human subsistence, society, and ecology in the history of our species. This article offers a narrative review of the principal theories advanced to explain why, where, and how agriculture eme...

Zen Revista, 10 HISTORY · 0 citations

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