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Boolean networks are special types of finite state time-discrete dynamical systems. A Boolean network can be described by a function from an n-dimensional vector space over the field of two elements to itself. A fundamental problem in…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2013-07-03 Yi Ming Zou

Boolean networks with canalizing functions are used to model gene regulatory networks. In order to learn how such networks may behave under evolutionary forces, we simulate the evolution of a single Boolean network by means of an adaptive…

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Nested canalization (NC) is a property of Boolean functions which has been recently extended to multivalued functions. We study the effect of the Van Ham mapping (from multivalued to Boolean functions) on this property. We introduce the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-10-31 Élisabeth Remy , Paul Ruet

When analyzing complex networks a key target is to uncover their modular structure, which means searching for a family of modules, namely node subsets spanning each a subnetwork more densely connected than the average. This work proposes a…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-09-10 Giovanni Rossi

Boolean networks are an important class of computational models for molecular interaction networks. Boolean canalization, a type of hierarchical clustering of the inputs of a Boolean function, has been extensively studied in the context of…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2024-07-09 David Murrugarra , Elena S. Dimitrova

Classification of Non-linear Boolean functions is a long-standing problem in the area of theoretical computer science. In this paper, effort has been made to achieve a systematic classification of all n-variable Boolean functions, where…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-03-15 Ranjeet Kumar Rout , Pabitra Pal Choudhury , Sudhakar Sahoo

We seek to improve deep neural networks by generalizing the pooling operations that play a central role in current architectures. We pursue a careful exploration of approaches to allow pooling to learn and to adapt to complex and variable…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-10-13 Chen-Yu Lee , Patrick W. Gallagher , Zhuowen Tu

In this paper, we obtain complete characterization for nested canalyzing functions (NCFs) by obtaining its unique algebraic normal form (polynomial form). We introduce a new concept, LAYER NUMBER for NCF. Based on this, we obtain explicit…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2011-12-01 Yuan Li , John O. Adeyeye , Reinhard Laubenbacher

Deep neural networks are renowned for their ability to generalise well across diverse tasks, even when heavily overparameterized. Existing works offer only partial explanations (for example, the NTK-based task-model alignment explanation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Chris Mingard , Lukas Seier , Niclas Göring , Andrei-Vlad Badelita , Charles London , Ard Louis

Boolean Networks have been used to study numerous phenomena, including gene regulation, neural networks, social interactions, and biological evolution. Here, we propose a general method for determining the critical behavior of Boolean…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-11 Andre A. Moreira , Luis A. N. Amaral

Boolean networks can be viewed as functions on the set of binary strings of a given length, described via logical rules. They were introduced as dynamic models into biology, in particular as logical models of intracellular regulatory…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-04-16 J. García Galofre , M. Pérez Millán , A. Galarza Rial , R. Laubenbacher , A. Dickenstein

We prove that nested canalizing functions are the minimum-sensitivity Boolean functions for any activity ratio and we determine the functional form of this boundary which has a nontrivial fractal structure. We further observe that the…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2024-08-14 Hamza Coban

Within the framework of mappings between affine spaces, the notion of $n$-th polarization of a function will lead to an intrinsic characterization of polynomial functions. We prove that the characteristic features of derivations, such as…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Margherita Barile , Fiorella Barone , Wlodzimierz M. Tulczyjew

Boolean networks have been used in a variety of settings, as models for general complex systems as well as models of specific systems in diverse fields, such as biology, engineering, and computer science. Traditionally, their properties as…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-02-02 Matthew Wheeler , Claus Kadelka , Alan Veliz-Cuba , David Murrugarra , Reinhard Laubenbacher

We study critical random Boolean networks with two inputs per node that contain only canalyzing functions. We present a phenomenological theory that explains how a frozen core of nodes that are frozen on all attractors arises. This theory…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 U. Paul , V. Kaufman , B. Drossel

Boolean functions with strong cryptographic properties, such as high nonlinearity and algebraic degree, are important for the security of stream and block ciphers. These functions can be designed using algebraic constructions or…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Claude Carlet , Marko Ðurasevic , Domagoj Jakobovic , Luca Mariot , Stjepan Picek , Alexandr Polujan

Boolean nested canalizing functions (NCFs) have important applications in molecular regulatory networks, engineering and computer science. In this paper, we study their certificate complexity. For both Boolean values $b\in\{0,1\}$, we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-02-15 Yuan Li , Frank Ingram , Huaming Zhang

Boolean nested canalizing functions (NCFs) have important applications in molecular regulatory networks, engineering and computer science. In this paper, we study their certificate complexity. For both Boolean values $b\in\{0,1\}$, we…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Yuan Li , Frank Ingram , Huaming Zhang

A fuzzy Boolean function is a map $f:\cube^n\to [0,1]$, where $n\in\mathbb N$. We introduce and compare three ways of saying that such a function has bounded complexity. The first is a sampling property: the value $f(x)$ can be recovered,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-22 Balazs Szegedy

We define a measure for the complexity of Boolean functions related to their implementation in neural networks, and in particular close related to the generalization ability that could be obtained through the learning process. The measure…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Leonardo Franco