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Bayesian networks (BNs) are a widely used class of probabilistic graphical models employed in numerous application domains. However, inferring the network's graphical structure from data remains challenging. Bayesian structure learners…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-19 William Zhao , Guy Van den Broeck , Benjie Wang

A representation of the cause-effect mechanism is needed to enable artificial intelligence to represent how the world works. Bayesian Networks (BNs) have proven to be an effective and versatile tool for this task. BNs require constructing a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Joverlyn Gaudillo , Nicole Astrologo , Fabio Stella , Enzo Acerbi , Francesco Canonaco

In this paper, we focus on the study of quotients of Boolean control networks (BCNs) with the motivation that they might serve as smaller models that still carry enough information about the original network. Given a BCN and an equivalence…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-13 Rui Li , Qi Zhang , Tianguang Chu

We study active structure learning of Bayesian networks in an observational setting, in which there are external limitations on the number of variable values that can be observed from the same sample. Random samples are drawn from the joint…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Noa Ben-David , Sivan Sabato

This paper focuses on proposing a general control framework for large-scale Boolean networks (\texttt{BNs}). Only by the network structure, the concept of structural controllability for \texttt{BNs} is formalized. A necessary and sufficient…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-27 Shiyong Zhu , Jianquan Lu , Shun-ichi Azuma , Wei Xing Zheng

For a Bayes classifier whose input space is a graph, we study the structure of the boundary, which comprises those points for which at least one neighbor is classified differently. The scientific setting is assignment of DNA reads produced…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-28 Alan F. Karr , Zac Bowen , Adam A. Porter , Regina Ruane

Due to the scarcity of quantitative details about biological phenomena, quantitative modeling in systems biology can be compromised, especially at the subcellular scale. One way to get around this is qualitative modeling because it requires…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2019-03-22 Arnaud Poret , Claudio Monteiro Sousa , Jean-Pierre Boissel

Boolean network models of molecular regulatory networks have been used successfully in computational systems biology. The Boolean functions that appear in published models tend to have special properties, in particular the property of being…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-07-09 Yuan Li , John O. Adeyeye , David Murrugarra , Boris Aguilar , Reinhard Laubenbacher

Boolean networks are popular tools for the exploration of qualitative dynamical properties of biological systems. Several dynamical interpretations have been proposed based on the same logical structure that captures the interactions…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Aurélien Naldi , Adrien Richard , Elisa Tonello

In the applications of Boolean networks to modeling biological systems, an important computational problem is the detection of the fixed points of these networks. This is an NP-complete problem in general. There have been various attempts…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2014-04-23 Yi Ming Zou

Boolean networks have been the object of much attention, especially since S. Kauffman proposed them in the 1960's as models for gene regulatory networks. These systems are characterized by being defined on a Boolean state space and by…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2008-01-30 Winfried Just , German Enciso

We propose a new algorithm for compiling Bayesian network classifier (BNC) into class formulas. Class formulas are logical formulas that represent a classifier's input-output behavior, and are crucial in the recent line of work that uses…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Yaofang Zhang , Adnan Darwiche

The dynamics of Boolean networks (BN) with quenched disorder and thermal noise is studied via the generating functional method. A general formulation, suitable for BN with any distribution of Boolean functions, is developed. It provides…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-05-27 Alexander Mozeika , David Saad

A Boolean network (BN) is called observable if any initial state can be uniquely determined from the output sequence. In the existing literature on observability of BNs, there is almost no research on the relationship between the number of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-29 Liangjie Sun , Wai-Ki Ching , Tatsuya Akutsu

A Boolean network (BN) with $n$ components is a discrete dynamical system described by the successive iterations of a function $f:\{0,1\}^n\to\{0,1\}^n$. In most applications, the main parameter is the interaction graph of $f$: the digraph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-05-06 Aymeric Picard Marchetto , Adrien Richard

The attractors of Boolean networks and their basins have been shown to be highly relevant for model validation and predictive modelling, e.g., in systems biology. Yet there are currently very few tools available that are able to compute and…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-07-27 Hannes Klarner , Frederike Heinitz , Sarah Nee , Heike Siebert

Complex systems are often modeled as Boolean networks in attempts to capture their logical structure and reveal its dynamical consequences. Approximating the dynamics of continuous variables by discrete values and Boolean logic gates may,…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2013-05-29 Johannes Norrell , Joshua E. S. Socolar

Boolean circuits form the foundational computational substrate of symmetric cryptography, yet the exploration of their architectural design space has remained largely confined to a handful of canonical paradigms - SPN, Feistel networks, and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Arnaud Valence

Bayesian Networks (BNs) have become increasingly popular over the last few decades as a tool for reasoning under uncertainty in fields as diverse as medicine, biology, epidemiology, economics and the social sciences. This is especially true…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Neville K. Kitson , Anthony C. Constantinou , Zhigao Guo , Yang Liu , Kiattikun Chobtham

A new analytical framework consisting of two phenomena: single sample and multiple samples, is proposed to deal with the identification problem of Boolean control networks (BCNs) systematically and comprehensively. Under this framework, the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-30 Biao Wang , Jun-e Feng , Daizhan Cheng