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Neuronal activity is found to lie on low-dimensional manifolds embedded within the high-dimensional neuron space. Variants of principal component analysis are frequently employed to assess these manifolds. These methods are, however,…

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In the recent paper [2], it was proved that the closure of the planar diffeomorphisms in the Sobolev norm consists of the functions which are non-crossing (NC), i.e., the functions which can be uniformly approximated by continuous…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-20 Daniel Campbell , Aldo Pratelli , Emanuela Radici

Normalizing Flows (NFs) are able to model complicated distributions p(y) with strong inter-dimensional correlations and high multimodality by transforming a simple base density p(z) through an invertible neural network under the change of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Christina Winkler , Daniel Worrall , Emiel Hoogeboom , Max Welling

Computational models of biological processes provide one of the most powerful methods for a detailed analysis of the mechanisms that drive the behavior of complex systems. Logic-based modeling has enhanced our understanding and…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2022-02-08 John Zobolas , Pedro T. Monteiro , Martin Kuiper , Åsmund Flobak

Boolean networks constitute relevant mathematical models to study the behaviours of genetic and signalling networks. These networks define regulatory influences between molecular nodes, each being associated to a Boolean variable and a…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-06-24 José E. R. Cury , Patrícia Tenera Roxo , Vasco Manquinho , Claudine Chaouiya , Pedro T. Monteiro

A symmetric function of $N$ variables can be given in terms of symmetric polynomials of these variables. We determine those symmetric polynomials in which the dual differential operators take the neatest form when expressed in terms of our…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2023-02-02 Shaul Zemel

We obtain the phase diagram of random Boolean networks with nested canalizing functions. Using the annealed approximation, we obtain the evolution of the number $b_t$ of nodes with value one, and the network sensitivity $\lambda$, and we…

Biological Physics · Physics 2010-12-17 Tiago P. Peixoto

A Boolean function is symmetric if it is invariant under all permutations of its arguments; it is quasi-symmetric if it is symmetric with respect to the arguments on which it actually depends. We present a test that accepts every…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-08-17 Krzysztof Majewski , Nicholas Pippenger

Active nematic fluids confined in narrow channels generate spontaneous flows when the activity is sufficiently intense. Recently, it was shown that if the molecular anchoring at the channel walls is conflicting flows are initiated even in…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-11-02 C. Rorai , F. Toschi , I. Pagonabarraga

This paper presents a method to detect and recognize symmetries in Boolean functions. The idea is to use information theoretic measures of Boolean functions to detect sub-space of possible symmetric variables. Coupled with the new…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-10-15 Denis V. Popel

The information processing abilities of a multilayer neural network with a number of hidden units scaling as the input dimension are studied using statistical mechanics methods. The mapping from the input layer to the hidden units is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Michal Rosen-Zvi , Andreas Engel , Ido Kanter

Correlation-immune (CI) multi-output Boolean functions have the property of keeping the same output distribution when some input variables are fixed. Recently, a new application of CI functions has appeared in the system of resisting…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Jinjin Chai , Zilong Wang , Sihem Mesnager , Guang Gong

This paper investigates the learnability of the nonlinearity property of Boolean functions using neural networks. We train encoder style deep neural networks to learn to predict the nonlinearity of Boolean functions from examples of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Sriram Ranga , Nandish Chattopadhyay , Anupam Chattopadhyay

Although the classical density functional theory (DFT) of inhomogeneous fluids was formulated more than four decades ago, its application to broken symmetry phases of molecular systems remained a challenge. Approximate free energy…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-19 Yashwant Singh

The study of neuronal morphology is important not only for its potential relationship with neuronal dynamics, but also as a means to classify diverse types of cells and compare than among species, organs, and conditions. In the present…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2024-03-11 Alexandre Benatti , Henrique F. de Arruda , Luciano da F. Costa

We study the polynomial approximation of symmetric multivariate functions and of multi-set functions. Specifically, we consider $f(x_1, \dots, x_N)$, where $x_i \in \mathbb{R}^d$, and $f$ is invariant under permutations of its $N$…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-06 Markus Bachmayr , Geneviève Dusson , Christoph Ortner , Jack Thomas

Rotation symmetric Boolean functions represent an interesting class of Boolean functions as they are relatively rare compared to general Boolean functions. At the same time, the functions in this class can have excellent properties, making…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Claude Carlet , Marko Ðurasevic , Bruno Gašperov , Domagoj Jakobovic , Luca Mariot , Stjepan Picek

Symmetric functions, which take as input an unordered, fixed-size set, are known to be universally representable by neural networks that enforce permutation invariance. These architectures only give guarantees for fixed input sizes, yet in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Aaron Zweig , Joan Bruna

We introduce Neural Conjugate Flows (NCF), a class of neural network architectures equipped with exact flow structure. By leveraging topological conjugation, we prove that these networks are not only naturally isomorphic to a continuous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Arthur Bizzi , Lucas Nissenbaum , João M. Pereira

In a coupled-channel model, we explore the effects of coupling between configurations on the radial behavior of the wave function and, in particular, on the spectroscopic factor (SF) and the asymptotic normalization coefficient (ANC). We…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2010-12-10 P. Capel , P. Danielewicz , F. M. Nunes