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Brain network analysis based on functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) is pivotal for diagnosing brain disorders. Existing approaches typically rely on predefined functional sub-networks to construct sub-network associations. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Jingfeng Tang , Peng Cao , Guangqi Wen , Jinzhu Yang , Xiaoli Liu , Osmar R. Zaiane

The hippocampal-entorhinal complex plays a major role in the organization of memory and thought. The formation of and navigation in cognitive maps of arbitrary mental spaces via place and grid cells can serve as a representation of memories…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2022-10-31 Paul Stoewer , Achim Schilling , Andreas Maier , Patrick Krauss

In this paper we developed a hierarchical network model, called Hierarchical Prediction Network (HPNet), to understand how spatiotemporal memories might be learned and encoded in the recurrent circuits in the visual cortical hierarchy for…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-10-04 Jielin Qiu , Ge Huang , Tai Sing Lee

Networks involved in information processing often have their nodes arranged hierarchically, with the majority of connections occurring in adjacent levels. However, despite being an intuitively appealing concept, the hierarchical…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2024-07-02 Anand Pathak , Shakti N. Menon , Sitabhra Sinha

In this paper, we review recent approaches for explaining concepts in neural networks. Concepts can act as a natural link between learning and reasoning: once the concepts are identified that a neural learning system uses, one can integrate…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Jae Hee Lee , Sergio Lanza , Stefan Wermter

Over the past decade, deep neural networks have proven to be adept in image classification tasks, often surpassing humans in terms of accuracy. However, standard neural networks often fail to understand the concept of hierarchical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Amitangshu Mukherjee , Isha Garg , Kaushik Roy

A major challenge in Explainable AI is in correctly interpreting activations of hidden neurons: accurate interpretations would provide insights into the question of what a deep learning system has internally detected as relevant on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Abhilekha Dalal , Md Kamruzzaman Sarker , Adrita Barua , Eugene Vasserman , Pascal Hitzler

A remarkable capability of the human brain is to form more abstract conceptual representations from sensorimotor experiences and flexibly apply them independent of direct sensory inputs. However, the computational mechanism underlying this…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2026-01-06 Liangxuan Guo , Haoyang Chen , Yang Chen , Yanchao Bi , Shan Yu

A fascinating hypothesis is that human and animal intelligence could be explained by a few principles (rather than an encyclopedic list of heuristics). If that hypothesis was correct, we could more easily both understand our own…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Anirudh Goyal , Yoshua Bengio

We are interested in aligning how people think about objects and what machines perceive, meaning by this the fact that object recognition, as performed by a machine, should follow a process which resembles that followed by humans when…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Luca Erculiani , Andrea Bontempelli , Andrea Passerini , Fausto Giunchiglia

Individual-intelligence research, from a neurological perspective, discusses the hierarchical layers of the cortex as a structure that performs conceptual abstraction and specification. This theory has been used to explain how motor-cortex…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Marko A. Rodriguez

Text classification is a primary task in natural language processing (NLP). Recently, graph neural networks (GNNs) have developed rapidly and been applied to text classification tasks. As a special kind of graph data, the tree has a simpler…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Chong Zhang , He Zhu , Xingyu Peng , Junran Wu , Ke Xu

Multimodal intent recognition aims to infer human intents by jointly modeling various modalities, playing a pivotal role in real-world dialogue systems. However, current methods struggle to model hierarchical semantics underlying complex…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Qianrui Zhou , Hua Xu , Yunjin Gu , Yifan Wang , Songze Li , Hanlei Zhang

To interpret deep neural networks, one main approach is to dissect the visual input and find the prototypical parts responsible for the classification. However, existing methods often ignore the hierarchical relationship between these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Sadaf Gulshad , Teng Long , Nanne van Noord

The widespread use of deep neural networks has achieved substantial success in many tasks. However, there still exists a huge gap between the operating mechanism of deep learning models and human-understandable decision making, so that…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-03-08 Xiaowei Zhou , Jie Yin , Ivor Tsang , Chen Wang

During collaborative tasks, human behavior is guided by multiple levels of intentions that evolve over time, such as task sequence preferences and interaction strategies. To adapt to these changing preferences and promptly correct any…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Zhe Huang , Ye-Ji Mun , Fatemeh Cheraghi Pouria , Katherine Driggs-Campbell

Graph Transformer shows remarkable potential in brain network analysis due to its ability to model graph structures and complex node relationships. Most existing methods typically model the brain as a flat network, ignoring its modular…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Jiajun Ma , Yongchao Zhang , Chao Zhang , Zhao Lv , Shengbing Pei

We consider the implications of the mathematical analysis of neurone-to-neurone dynamical complex networks. We show how the dynamical behaviour of small scale strongly connected networks lead naturally to non-binary information processing…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2016-09-15 Peter Grindrod

Providing textual concept-based explanations for neurons in deep neural networks (DNNs) is of importance in understanding how a DNN model works. Prior works have associated concepts with neurons based on examples of concepts or a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Nhat Hoang-Xuan , Minh Vu , My T. Thai

Humans are able to recognize structured relations in observation, allowing us to decompose complex scenes into simpler parts and abstract the visual world in multiple levels. However, such hierarchical reasoning ability of human perception…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Liulei Li , Tianfei Zhou , Wenguan Wang , Jianwu Li , Yi Yang