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A broad range of nonlinear processes over networks are governed by threshold dynamics. So far, existing mathematical theory characterizing the behavior of such systems has largely been concerned with the case where the thresholds are…

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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

Despite their apparent simplicity, random Boolean networks display a rich variety of dynamical behaviors. Much work has been focused on the properties and abundance of attractors. We here derive an expression for the number of attractors in…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2007-05-23 Björn Samuelsson , Carl Troein

Many cognitive processes, including working memory, recruit multiple distributed interacting brain regions to encode information. How to understand the underlying cognition function mechanism of working memory is a challenging problem,…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2022-09-13 Leijun Ye , Chunhe Li

We study self-replicating molecules under externally varying conditions. Changing conditions such as temperature variations and/or alterations in the environment's resource composition lead to both non-constant replication and decay rates…

Biological Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Claus O. Wilke , Christopher Ronnewinkel , Thomas Martinetz

Adaptive dynamical networks are network systems in which the structure co-evolves and interacts with the dynamical state of the nodes. We study an adaptive dynamical network in which the structure changes on a slower time scale relative to…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2024-08-15 Matheus Rolim Sales , Serhiy Yanchuk , Jürgen Kurths

In this review, we describe the singular success of attractor neural network models in describing how the brain maintains persistent activity states for working memory, error-corrects, and integrates noisy cues. We consider the mechanisms…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2022-03-03 Mikail Khona , Ila R. Fiete

Attractors of dynamical systems may be networks in phase space that can be heteroclinic (where there are dynamical connections between simple invariant sets) or excitable (where a perturbation threshold needs to be crossed to a dynamical…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2018-04-24 Peter Ashwin , Claire Postlethwaite

The deterministic dynamics of randomly connected neural networks are studied, where a state of binary neurons evolves according to a discreet-time synchronous update rule. We give a theoretical support that the overlap of systems' states…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-03-10 Taro Toyoizumi , Haiping Huang

Attractor dynamics are a hallmark of many complex systems, including the brain. Understanding how such self-organizing dynamics emerge from first principles is crucial for advancing our understanding of neuronal computations and the design…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2026-05-22 Tamas Spisak , Karl Friston

We explore the coupled dynamics of the internal states of a set of interacting elements and the network of interactions among them. Interactions are modeled by a spatial game and the network of interaction links evolves adapting to the…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-09-23 Martin G. Zimmermann , Victor M. Eguiluz , Maxi San Miguel

The evolution of cooperation in networked systems helps to understand the dynamics in social networks, multi-agent systems, and biological species. The self-persistence of individual strategies is common in real-world decision making. The…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Ziyan Zeng , Minyu Feng , Attila Szolnoki

Continuous attractor neural networks generate a set of smoothly connected attractor states. In memory systems of the brain, these attractor states may represent continuous pieces of information such as spatial locations and head directions…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-01-16 Chi Chung Alan Fung , Tomoki Fukai

For real-world complex system constantly enduring perturbation, to achieve survival goal in changing yet unknown environments, the central problem is constantly adapting themself to external environments according to environmental feedback.…

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We study metanetworks arising in genotype and phenotype spaces, in the context of a model population of Boolean graphs evolved under selection for short dynamical attractors. We define the adjacency matrix of a graph as its genotype, which…

Biological Physics · Physics 2016-09-06 Burçin Danacı , Ayşe Erzan

Neuronal networks constitute a special class of dynamical systems, as they are formed by individual geometrical components, namely the neurons. In the existing literature, relatively little attention has been given to the influence of…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2015-05-13 Sebastian Ahnert , Luciano da Fontoura Costa

Adaptive networks appear in many biological applications. They combine topological evolution of the network with dynamics in the network nodes. Recently, the dynamics of adaptive networks has been investigated in a number of parallel…

Physics and Society · Physics 2008-01-23 Thilo Gross , Bernd Blasius

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

It is a fundamental challenge to understand how the function of a network is related to its structural organization. Adaptive dynamical networks represent a broad class of systems that can change their connectivity over time depending on…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2023-04-13 Rico Berner , Thilo Gross , Christian Kuehn , Jürgen Kurths , Serhiy Yanchuk

We studied autoassociative networks in which synapses are noisy on a time scale much shorter that the one for the neuron dynamics. In our model a presynaptic noise causes postsynaptic depression as recently observed in neurobiological…

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