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We study a non-linear dynamical system on networks inspired by the pitchfork bifurcation normal form. The system has several interesting interpretations: as an interconnection of several pitchfork systems, a gradient dynamical system and…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-08-19 Karel Devriendt , Renaud Lambiotte

Graph-based change point detection (CPD) play an irreplaceable role in discovering anomalous graphs in the time-varying network. While several techniques have been proposed to detect change points by identifying whether there is a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Yongshun Gong , Xue Dong , Jian Zhang , Meng Chen

Implicit-depth neural networks have grown as powerful alternatives to traditional networks in various applications in recent years. However, these models often lack guarantees of existence and uniqueness, raising stability, performance, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Pietro Sittoni , Francesco Tudisco

This work analyzes the convergence properties of signed networks with nonlinear edge functions. We consider diffusively coupled networks comprised of maximal equilibrium-independent passive (MEIP) dynamics on the nodes, and a general class…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-03-28 Hao Chen , Daniel Zelazo , Xiangke Wang , Lincheng Shen

Since statistical guarantees for neural networks are usually restricted to global optima of intricate objective functions, it is unclear whether these theories explain the performances of actual outputs of neural network pipelines. The goal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Mahsa Taheri , Fang Xie , Johannes Lederer

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have been applied to data with underlying non-Euclidean structures and have achieved impressive successes. This brings the stability analysis of CNNs on non-Euclidean domains into notice because CNNs…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-05 Zhiyang Wang , Luana Ruiz , Alejandro Ribeiro

We consider a deep structured linear network under sparsity constraints. We study sharp conditions guaranteeing the stability of the optimal parameters defining the network. More precisely, we provide sharp conditions on the network…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-03 Francois Malgouyres

Nodes in networks that exhibit high connectivity, also called ``hubs'', play a critical role in determining the structural and functional properties of networked systems. However, there is no clear definition of what constitutes a hub node…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Alec Kirkley

In deep learning, dense layer connectivity has become a key design principle in deep neural networks (DNNs), enabling efficient information flow and strong performance across a range of applications. In this work, we model densely connected…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Jinshu Huang , Haibin Su , Xue-Cheng Tai , Chunlin Wu

A long-standing proposition is that by emulating the operation of the brain's neocortex, a spiking neural network (SNN) can achieve similar desirable features: flexible learning, speed, and efficiency. Temporal neural networks (TNNs) are…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-02-24 James E. Smith

Differentiable logic networks (DLNs) have shown promising results in tabular domains by combining accuracy, interpretability, and computational efficiency. In this work, we apply DLNs to the domain of TSC for the first time, focusing on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Chang Yue , Niraj K. Jha

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) excel at learning from pairwise interactions but often overlook multi-way and hierarchical relationships. Topological Deep Learning (TDL) addresses this limitation by leveraging combinatorial topological spaces.…

It turned out that the set of the fixed points is not necessarily the same as the set of the local minima of the energy functional. It depends on the diagonal elements of the connection matrix. The simple method which allows to cut off…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Leonid B. Litinskii

Learning on point cloud is eagerly in demand because the point cloud is a common type of geometric data and can aid robots to understand environments robustly. However, the point cloud is sparse, unstructured, and unordered, which cannot be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-07 Kuangen Zhang , Ming Hao , Jing Wang , Clarence W. de Silva , Chenglong Fu

Complex networks describe a wide range of systems in nature and society, much quoted examples including the cell, a network of chemicals linked by chemical reactions, or the Internet, a network of routers and computers connected by physical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-31 Reka Albert , Albert-Laszlo Barabasi

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are the standard for learning on graphs, yet they have limited expressive power, often expressed in terms of the Weisfeiler-Leman (WL) hierarchy or within the framework of first-order logic. In this context,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Amirreza Akbari , Amauri H. Souza , Vikas Garg

This paper deals with structural controllability of leader-follower networks. The system matrix defining the network dynamics is a pattern matrix in which a priori given entries are equal to zero, while the remaining entries take nonzero…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-10-16 Jiajia Jia , Harry L. Trentelman , Wouter Baar , Kanat M. Camlibel

A recent analysis of a model of iterative neural network in Hilbert spaces established fundamental properties of such networks, such as existence of the fixed points sets, convergence analysis, and Lipschitz continuity. Building on these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Tomasz Piotrowski , Krzysztof Rykaczewski

For spiking neural networks we consider the stability problem of global synchrony, arguably the simplest non-trivial collective dynamics in such networks. We find that even this simplest dynamical problem -- local stability of synchrony --…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2009-11-13 Marc Timme , Fred Wolf

This paper discusses discrete-time maps of the form $x(k + 1) = F(x(k))$, focussing on equilibrium points of such maps. Under some circumstances, Lefschetz fixed-point theory can be used to establish the existence of a single locally…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-25 Brian D. O. Anderson , Mengbin Ye