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Attractor dynamics are a fundamental computational motif in neural circuits, supporting diverse cognitive functions through stable, self-sustaining patterns of neural activity. In these lecture notes, we review four key examples that…

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In this paper, we generally formulate the dynamics prediction problem of various network systems (e.g., the prediction of mobility, traffic and topology) as the temporal link prediction task. Different from conventional techniques of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-01-29 Kai Lei , Meng Qin , Bo Bai , Gong Zhang , Min Yang

Line attractors in neuronal networks have been suggested to be the basis of many brain functions, such as working memory, oculomotor control, head movement, locomotion, and sensory processing. In this paper, we make the connection between…

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A system of coupled oscillators on an arbitrary graph is locally driven by the tendency to mutual synchronization between nearby oscillators, but can and often exhibit nonlinear behavior on the whole graph. Understanding such nonlinear…

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The structure of complex networks can be characterized by counting and analyzing network motifs. Motifs are small subgraphs that occur repeatedly in a network, such as triangles or chains. Recent work has generalized motifs to temporal and…

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Graph Neural Networks (GNN) rely on graph convolutions to learn features from network data. GNNs are stable to different types of perturbations of the underlying graph, a property that they inherit from graph filters. In this paper we…

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Robbin and Salamon showed that attractor-repellor networks and Lyapunov maps are equivalent concepts and illustrate this with the example of linear flows on projective spaces. In these examples the fixed points are linearly ordered with…

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Graph convolutional neural networks (GCNNs) are nonlinear processing tools to learn representations from network data. A key property of GCNNs is their stability to graph perturbations. Current analysis considers deterministic perturbations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Zhan Gao , Elvin Isufi , Alejandro Ribeiro

We study properties of Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) by analyzing their behavior on standard models of random graphs, where nodes are represented by random latent variables and edges are drawn according to a similarity kernel. This…

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We investigate the problem of producing structured graph representations of visual scenes. Our work analyzes the role of motifs: regularly appearing substructures in scene graphs. We present new quantitative insights on such repeated…

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Tree-child networks are a recently-described class of directed acyclic graphs that have risen to prominence in phylogenetics (the study of evolutionary trees and networks). Although these networks have a number of attractive mathematical…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-01-10 François Bienvenu , Amaury Lambert , Mike Steel

Phylogenetic networks are becoming of increasing interest to evolutionary biologists due to their ability to capture complex non-treelike evolutionary processes. From a combinatorial point of view, such networks are certain types of rooted…

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In previous works, we introduced the notion of dominant vertices in the context of dynamical systems on networks. This is a set of nodes in the underlying network whose evolution determines the whole network's dynamics after a transient…

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Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) have found widespread applications in machine learning for time series prediction and dynamical systems reconstruction, and experienced a recent renaissance with improved training algorithms and…

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In the recently developed theory of isospectral transformations of networks isospectral compressions are performed with respect to some chosen characteristic (attribute) of nodes (or edges) of networks. Each isospectral compression (when a…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-04-04 Leonid Bunimovich , Longmei Shu

Complex networks have been characterised by their specific connectivity patterns (network motifs), but their building blocks can also be identified and described by node-motifs---a combination of local network features. One technique to…

Motifs are patterns of subgraphs of complex networks. We studied the impact of such patterns of connectivity on the level of correlated, or synchronized, spiking activity among pairs of cells in a recurrent network model of integrate and…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2015-06-05 Yu Hu , James Trousdale , Kresimir Josic , Eric Shea-Brown

The relationship between the properties of a dynamical system and the structure of its defining equations has long been studied in many contexts. Here we study this problem for the class of conjunctive (resp. disjunctive) Boolean networks,…

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