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Humans possess the capability to reason at an abstract level and to structure information into abstract categories, but the underlying neural processes have remained unknown. Experimental evidence has recently emerged for the organization…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2022-04-05 Michael G. Müller , Christos H. Papadimitriou , Wolfgang Maass , Robert Legenstein

Neurons perform computations, and convey the results of those computations through the statistical structure of their output spike trains. Here we present a practical method, grounded in the information-theoretic analysis of prediction, for…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2022-03-18 Robert Haslinger , Kristina Lisa Klinkner , Cosma Rohilla Shalizi

Patterns are fundamental to human cognition, enabling the recognition of structure and regularity across diverse domains. In this work, we focus on structural repeats, patterns that arise from the repetition of hierarchical relations within…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Zeng Ren , Xinyi Guan , Martin Rohrmeier

Probabilistic mental simulation is thought to play a key role in human reasoning, planning, and prediction, yet the demands of simulation in complex environments exceed realistic human capacity limits. A theory with growing evidence is that…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Tony Chen , Sam Cheyette , Kelsey Allen , Joshua Tenenbaum , Kevin Smith

The brain is immensely complex, with diverse components and dynamic interactions building upon one another to orchestrate a wide range of functions and behaviors. Understanding patterns of these complex interactions and how they are…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2024-08-06 Suman Kulkarni , Dani S. Bassett

Objective: Brain is a fantastic organ that helps creature adapting to the environment. Network is the most essential structure of brain, but the capability of a simple network is still not very clear. In this study, we try to expound some…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2019-11-05 Xiang Zou , Lie Yao , Donghua Zhao , Liang Chen , Ying Mao

Creation procedure of associative patterns ensemble in terms of formal logic with using neural net-work (NN) model is formulated. It is shown that the associative patterns set is created by means of unique procedure of NN work which having…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Leonid Makarov , Peter Komarov

The structure of the axon-dendrite connections of neurons of the brain creates a rich spatial structure in which provided various combinations of signals surrounding neurons. Structure of dendritic trees and shape of dendritic spines allow…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-07-25 Alexey Redozubov

Nested Effects Models (NEMs) are a class of graphical models introduced to analyze the results of gene perturbation screens. NEMs explore noisy subset relations between the high-dimensional outputs of phenotyping studies, e.g. the effects…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2010-10-08 Achim Tresch , Florian Markowetz

We outline a possible theoretical framework for the quantitative modeling of networked embodied cognitive systems. We notice that: 1) information self structuring through sensory-motor coordination does not deterministically occur in Rn…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2013-05-21 Fabio Bonsignorio

We address the problem of finding patterns from multi-neuronal spike trains that give us insights into the multi-neuronal codes used in the brain and help us design better brain computer interfaces. We focus on the synchronous firings of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2010-06-09 Raajay Viswanathan , P. S. Sastry , K. P. Unnikrishnan

How intelligence arises from the brain is a central problem in science. A crucial aspect of intelligence is dealing with uncertainty -- developing good predictions about one's environment, and converting these predictions into decisions.…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2024-06-13 Max Dabagia , Daniel Mitropolsky , Christos H. Papadimitriou , Santosh S. Vempala

Motivated by modern observational studies, we introduce a class of functional models that expands nested and crossed designs. These models account for the natural inheritance of correlation structure from sampling design in studies where…

Applications · Statistics 2013-04-26 Haochang Shou , Vadim Zipunnikov , Ciprian M. Crainiceanu , Sonja Greven

This paper describes a design that can be used for Explainable AI. The lower level is a nested ensemble of patterns created by self-organisation. The upper level is a hierarchical tree, where nodes are linked through individual concepts, so…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Kieran Greer

In this paper, we propose a novel ensembling technique for deep neural networks, which is able to drastically reduce the required memory compared to alternative approaches. In particular, we propose to extract multiple sub-networks from a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Jary Pomponi , Simone Scardapane , Aurelio Uncini

Many neural systems display cascading behavior characterized by uninterrupted sequences of neuronal firing. This gap precludes an understanding of how variations in network structure manifest in neural dynamics and either support or impinge…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2019-11-12 Harang Ju , Jason Z. Kim , Danielle S. Bassett

We are often interested in decomposing complex, structured data into simple components that explain the data. The linear version of this problem is well-studied as dictionary learning and factor analysis. In this work, we propose a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Avrim Blum , Kavya Ravichandran

The human brain is a dynamical system whose extremely complex sensor-driven neural processes give rise to conceptual, logical cognition. Understanding the interplay between nonlinear neural dynamics and concept-level cognition remains a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Herbert Jaeger

In complex inferential tasks like question answering, machine learning models must confront two challenges: the need to implement a compositional reasoning process, and, in many applications, the need for this reasoning process to be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-08 Ronghang Hu , Jacob Andreas , Trevor Darrell , Kate Saenko

Several guiding principles for thought processes are proposed and a neural-network-type model implementing these principles is presented and studied. We suggest to consider thinking within an associative network built-up of overlapping…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2007-05-23 Claudius Gros