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Recent theoretical and experimental work in neuroscience has focused on the representational and dynamical character of neural manifolds --subspaces in neural activity space wherein many neurons coactivate. Importantly, neural populations…

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The behavior of the network and its stability are governed by both dynamics of individual nodes as well as their topological interconnections. Attention mechanism as an integral part of neural network models was initially designed for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Nooshin Bahador , Milad Lankarany

We describe a method for utilizing the known structure of input data to make learning more efficient. Our work is in the domain of programming languages, and we use deep neural networks to do program analysis. Computer programs include a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-04-01 Zehra Sura , Tong Chen , Hyojin Sung

We extend a recently introduced class of exactly solvable models for recurrent neural networks with competition between 1D nearest neighbour and infinite range information processing. We increase the potential for further frustration and…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-31 N. S. Skantzos , A. C. C. Coolen

In this chapter, we apply the theoretical framework introduced in the previous chapter to study how the modular structure of the social network affects the spreading of complex contagion. In particular, we focus on the notion of optimal…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-06-04 Azadeh Nematzadeh , Nathaniel Rodriguez , Alessandro Flammini , Yong-Yeol Ahn

Two natural and widely used representations for the community structure of networks are clusterings, which partition the vertex set into disjoint subsets, and layouts, which assign the vertices to positions in a metric space. This paper…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2009-02-06 Andreas Noack

Multi-agent systems in biology, society, and engineering are capable of making decisions through the dynamic interaction of their elements. Nonlinearity of the interactions is key for the speed, robustness, and flexibility of multi-agent…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-10-02 Rodrigo Moreno-Morton , Anastasia Bizyaeva , Naomi Ehrich Leonard , Alessio Franci

Modularity structures are common in various social and biological networks. However, its dynamical origin remains an open question. In this work, we set up a dynamical model describing the evolution of a social network. Based on the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2011-08-19 Menghui Li , Shuguang Guan , Choy-Heng Lai

We investigate the use of modularity as a quantifier of whole-brain functional networks. Brain networks are constructed from functional magnetic resonance imaging while subjects listened to auditory pieces that varied in emotivity and…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2020-09-23 Melia E. Bonomo , Christof Karmonik , Anthony K. Brandt , J. Todd Frazier

Self-organization and pattern formation in network-organized systems emerges from the collective activation and interaction of many interconnected units. A striking feature of these non-equilibrium structures is that they are often…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-02-23 Christos Nicolaides , Ruben Juanes , Luis Cueto-Felgueroso

Recent studies have revealed that neural networks learn interpretable algorithms for many simple problems. However, little is known about how these algorithms emerge during training. In this article, I study the training dynamics of a small…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Tiberiu Musat

Modularity is designed to measure the strength of division of a network into clusters (known also as communities). Networks with high modularity have dense connections between the vertices within clusters but sparse connections between…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-07-18 Liudmila Ostroumova Prokhorenkova , Pawel Pralat , Andrei Raigorodskii

Continuous, adaptive learning, the ability to adapt to the environment and keep improving performance, is a hallmark of natural intelligence. Biological organisms excel in acquiring, transferring, and retaining knowledge while adapting to…

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While modern deep networks have demonstrated remarkable versatility, their training dynamics remain poorly understood--often driven more by empirical tweaks than architectural insight. This paper investigates how internal structural choices…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Saleh Nikooroo , Thomas Engel

The human brain network is modular--comprised of communities of tightly interconnected nodes. This network contains local hubs, which have many connections within their own communities, and connector hubs, which have connections diversely…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2018-10-10 Maxwell A. Bertolero , B. T. T. Yeo , Danielle S. Bassett , Mark D'Esposito

Recent studies have demonstrated the existence of community structure and rich club nodes, (i.e., highly interconnected, high degree hub nodes), in human brain functional networks. The cognitive relevance of the detected modules and hubs…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-07-08 S. Sarkar , S. Chawla , H. Weng

Complex networks often have a modular structure, where a number of tightly- connected groups of nodes (modules) have relatively few interconnections. Modularity had been shown to have an important effect on the evolution and stability of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-04-21 Saray Shai , Dror Y. Kenett , Yoed N. Kenett , Miriam Faust , Simon Dobson , Shlomo Havlin

We investigate the selective forces that promote the emergence of modularity in nature. We demonstrate the spontaneous emergence of modularity in a population of individuals that evolve in a changing environment. We show that the level of…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2009-11-13 Jun Sun , Michael W. Deem

Controllability and observability have long been recognized as fundamental structural properties of dynamical systems, but have recently seen renewed interest in the context of large, complex networks of dynamical systems. A basic problem…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-18 Tyler H. Summers , Fabrizio L. Cortesi , John Lygeros

Network science has emerged as a powerful tool through which we can study the higher-order architectural properties of the world around us. How human learners exploit this information remains an essential question. Here, we focus on the…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2017-02-02 Elisabeth A. Karuza , Ari E. Kahn , Sharon L. Thompson-Schill , Danielle S. Bassett