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Understanding Electro-communication and Electro-sensing in Weakly Electric Fish using Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement

Satpreet H Singh¹, Sonja Johnson-Yu¹, Zhouyang Lu²

¹Harvard University.

|November 26, 2025

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Artificial agents simulate weakly electric fish, revealing complex social behaviors like freeloading and context-dependent communication. This computational framework offers insights into neuroethology where traditional studies are challenging.

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Area of Science:

Neuroethology
Computational Neuroscience
Artificial Intelligence

Background:

Weakly electric fish (e.g., Gnathonemus petersii) utilize electrical signals for sensing and communication.
Studying their complex behaviors in natural settings is experimentally difficult.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop a novel computational framework for studying electrosensing and electrocommunication in weakly electric fish.
To model emergent social behaviors and neural activity using artificial agents.

Main Methods:

Recurrent neural network (RNN) based artificial agents trained with multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL).
Agents modulated electric organ discharges (EODs) and movement patterns in virtual environments for collective foraging.
Evolution-inspired rewards focused on individual fitness and emergent interactions.

Main Results:

Trained agents exhibited emergent behaviors mirroring real fish, including heavy-tailed EOD interval distributions and context-dependent EOD shifts.
Observed social interaction patterns like 'freeloading,' where agents reduced EOD rates while benefiting from others.
A two-fish simulation highlighted the importance of conspecific EODs and dominance in foraging success.

Conclusions:

The computational framework successfully simulates complex social and communicative behaviors of weakly electric fish.
This approach provides a viable alternative for studying social animals when traditional multi-individual recordings are infeasible.
Findings advance understanding of neuroethology and social communication in diverse animal groups.