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Generative Autoregressive Neural Networks (ARNNs) have recently demonstrated exceptional results in image and language generation tasks, contributing to the growing popularity of generative models in both scientific and commercial…

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Robustness, the insensitivity of some of a biological system's functionalities to a set of distinct conditions, is intimately linked to fitness. Recent studies suggest that it may also play a vital role in enabling the evolution of species.…

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Biological nervous systems are created in a fundamentally different way than current artificial neural networks. Despite its impressive results in a variety of different domains, deep learning often requires considerable engineering effort…

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This work concerns a many-body deterministic model that displays life-like properties as emergence, complexity, self-organization, spontaneous compartmentalization, and self-regulation. The model portraits the dynamics of an ensemble of…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2023-07-11 Alessandro Scirè , Valerio Annovazzi-Lodi

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have shown unparalleled achievements in numerous applications, reflecting their proficiency in managing vast data sets. Yet, their static structure limits their adaptability in ever-changing environments. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Yunjie Zhu , Yunhao Chen

Adaptation plays a fundamental role in shaping the structure of a complex network and improving its functional fitting. Even when increasing the level of synchronization in a biological system is considered as the main driving force for…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-04-11 Vanesa Avalos-Gaytán , J. A. Almendral , I. Leyva , F. Battiston , V. Nicosia , V. Latora , S. Boccaletti

Data-driven methods for remaining useful life (RUL) prediction normally learn features from a fixed window size of a priori of degradation, which may lead to less accurate prediction results on different datasets because of the variance of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-13 Sen Zhao , Yong Zhang , Shang Wang , Beitong Zhou , Cheng Cheng

Increase in data, size, or compute can lead to sudden learning of specific capabilities by a neural network -- a phenomenon often called "emergence''. Beyond scientific understanding, establishing the causal factors underlying such emergent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Ekdeep Singh Lubana , Kyogo Kawaguchi , Robert P. Dick , Hidenori Tanaka

Discrete-time modeling of acoustic, mechanical and electrical systems is a prominent topic in the musical signal processing literature. Such models are mostly derived by discretizing a mathematical model, given in terms of ordinary or…

Recurrent neural networks are frequently studied in terms of their information-processing capabilities. The structural properties of these networks are seldom considered, beyond those emerging from the connectivity tuning necessary for…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2025-02-20 Maria Sol Vidal-Saez , Jordi Garcia-Ojalvo

Understanding network functionality requires integrating structure and dynamics, and emergent latent geometry induced by network-driven processes captures the low-dimensional spaces governing this interplay. Here, we focus on…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-12-02 Andrea Filippo Beretta , Davide Zanchetta , Sebastiano Bontorin , Manlio De Domenico

Despite their impressive performance, contemporary neural networks often lack structural safeguards that promote stable learning and interpretable behavior. In this work, we introduce a reformulation of layer-level transformations that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Saleh Nikooroo , Thomas Engel

Most deep learning models are limited to specific datasets or tasks because of network structures using fixed layers. In this paper, we discuss the differences between existing neural networks and real human neurons, propose association…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Seokjun Kim , Jaeeun Jang , Hyeoncheol Kim

Graph Neural Networks (GNN) have recently gained popularity in the forecasting domain due to their ability to model complex spatial and temporal patterns in tasks such as traffic forecasting and region-based demand forecasting. Most of…

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Low-rank recurrent neural networks (lrRNNs) are a class of models that uncover low-dimensional latent dynamics underlying neural population activity. Although their functional connectivity is low-rank, it lacks disentanglement…

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In this work, a novel approach for the construction and training of time series models is presented that deals with the problem of learning on large time series with non-equispaced observations, which at the same time may possess features…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-25 Charilaos Mylonas , Eleni Chatzi

We introduce a new framework for the analysis of the dynamics of networks, based on randomly reinforced urn (RRU) processes, in which the weight of the edges is determined by a reinforcement mechanism. We rigorously explain the empirical…

Physics and Society · Physics 2012-03-08 Guido Caldarelli , Alessandro Chessa , Irene Crimaldi , Fabio Pammolli

The biological neural network is a vast and diverse structure with high neural heterogeneity. Conventional Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) primarily focus on modifying the weights of connections through training while modeling neurons as…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Guobin Shen , Dongcheng Zhao , Yiting Dong , Yang Li , Yi Zeng

An important characteristic of neural networks is their ability to learn representations of the input data with effective features for prediction, which is believed to be a key factor to their superior empirical performance. To better…

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