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Nonlinear systems driven by noise and periodic forces with more than one frequency exhibit the phenomenon of Ghost Stochastic Resonance (GSR) found in a wide and disparate variety of fields ranging from biology to geophysics. The common…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-05-30 Pablo Balenzuela , Holger Braun , Dante R. Chialvo

A natural phenomenon occurring in a living system is an outcome of the dynamics of the specific biological network underlying the phenomenon. The collective dynamics have both deterministic and stochastic components. The stochastic nature…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-09-01 Indrani Bose

Can noise be beneficial to machine-learning prediction of chaotic systems? Utilizing reservoir computers as a paradigm, we find that injecting noise to the training data can induce a stochastic resonance with significant benefits to both…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-21 Zheng-Meng Zhai , Ling-Wei Kong , Ying-Cheng Lai

Stochastic resonance is a phenomenon in which noise enhances the response of a system to an input signal. The brain is an example of a system that has to detect and transmit signals in a noisy environment, suggesting that it is a good…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2017-10-16 Bertha Vázquez-Rodríguez , Andrea Avena-Koenigsberger , Olaf Sporns , Alessandra Griffa , Patric Hagmann , Hernán Larralde

Denoising, the process of reducing random fluctuations in a signal to emphasize essential patterns, has been a fundamental problem of interest since the dawn of modern scientific inquiry. Recent denoising techniques, particularly in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Peyman Milanfar , Mauricio Delbracio

Stochastic resonance describes the utility of noise in improving the detectability of weak signals in certain types of systems. It has been observed widely in natural and engineered settings, but its utility in image classification with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Siegfried Ludwig

Varied sensory systems use noise in order to enhance detection of weak signals. It has been conjectured in the literature that this effect, known as stochastic resonance, may take place in central cognitive processes such as the memory…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2007-05-23 Julien Mayor , Wulfram Gerstner

Synchronization phenomena are pervasive in biology. In neuronal networks, the mechanisms of synchronization have been extensively studied from both physiological and computational viewpoints. The functional role of synchronization has also…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2009-06-18 Nicolas Tabareau , Jean-Jacques Slotine , Quang-Cuong Pham

The phenomenon of Stochastic Resonance (SR) is reported in a completely noise-free situation, with the role of thermal noise being taken by low-dimensional chaos. A one-dimensional, piecewise linear map and a pair of coupled…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-31 Sitabhra Sinha

Information transmission in biological signaling circuits has often been described using the metaphor of a noise filter. Cellular systems need accurate, real-time data about their environmental conditions, but the biochemical reaction…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2019-02-27 David Hathcock , James Sheehy , Casey Weisenberger , Efe Ilker , Michael Hinczewski

We have analyzed the interplay between noise and periodic spatial modulations in bistable systems outside equilibrium and found that noise is able to increase the spatial order of the system, giving rise to periodic patterns which otherwise…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-15 J. M. G. Vilar , J. M. Rubí

We have analyzed the effects of the addition of external noise to non-dynamical systems displaying intrinsic noise, and established general conditions under which stochastic resonance appears. The criterion we have found may be applied to a…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-15 J. M. G. Vilar , G. Gomila , J. M. Rubí

First return maps of interspike intervals for biological neurons that generate repetitive bursts of impulses can display stereotyped structures (neuronal signatures). Such structures have been linked to the possibility of multicoding and…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2015-06-22 Bóris Marin , Reynaldo Daniel Pinto , Robert C Elson , Eduardo Colli

We employ a typical genetic circuit model to explore how noise can influence the dynamic structure. With the increase of a key interactive parameter, the model will deterministically go through two bifurcations and three dynamic structure…

Biological Physics · Physics 2026-03-25 Yuxuan Wu , Yuxing Jiao , Yanzhen Zhao , Haojun Jia , Liufang Xu

Synchronization is a widespread phenomenon observed in physical, biological, and social networks, which persists even under the influence of strong noise. Previous research on oscillators subject to common noise has shown that noise can…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2021-06-02 Zachary G. Nicolaou , Michael Sebek , Istvan Z. Kiss , Adilson E. Motter

While noise is commonly considered a nuisance in computing systems, a number of studies in neuroscience have shown several benefits of noise in the nervous system from enabling the brain to carry out computations such as probabilistic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Elahe Arani , Fahad Sarfraz , Bahram Zonooz

One of the fundamental challenges affecting the performance of communication systems is the undesired impact of noise on a signal. Noise distorts the signal and originates due to several sources including, system non-linearity and noise…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-01-04 Adnan Quadri

Noise is conventionally viewed as a severe problem in diverse fields, e.g., engineering, learning systems. However, this paper aims to investigate whether the conventional proposition always holds. It begins with the definition of task…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Xuelong Li

To learn and reason in the presence of uncertainty, the brain must be capable of imposing some form of regularization. Here we suggest, through theoretical and computational arguments, that the combination of noise with synchronization…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2013-12-06 Jake Bouvrie , Jean-Jacques Slotine

Effect of noise in inducing order on various chaotically evolving systems is reviewed, with special emphasis on systems consisting of coupled chaotic elements. In many situations it is observed that the uncoupled elements when driven by…

chao-dyn · Physics 2015-06-24 Manojit Roy , R. E. Amritkar