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Neural networks are growing more capable on their own, but we do not understand their neural mechanisms. Understanding these mechanisms' decision-making processes, or mechanistic interpretability, enables (1) accountability and control in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Mason Kadem , Rong Zheng

The dynamic characterization of functional brain networks is of great significance for elucidating the mechanisms of human brain function. Although graph neural networks have achieved remarkable progress in functional network analysis,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-08 ZhiTeng Zhu , Lan Yao

Accurately characterizing higher-order interactions of brain regions and extracting interpretable organizational patterns from Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging data is crucial for brain disease diagnosis. Current graph-based deep…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2026-03-16 Dengyi Zhao , Zhiheng Zhou , Guiying Yan , Dongxiao Yu , Xingqin Qi

Brain connectomes offer detailed maps of neural connections within the brain. Recent studies have proposed novel connectome graph datasets and attempted to improve connectome classification by using graph deep learning. With recent advances…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Jose Lara-Rangel , Clare Heinbaugh

Transformer, first applied to the field of natural language processing, is a type of deep neural network mainly based on the self-attention mechanism. Thanks to its strong representation capabilities, researchers are looking at ways to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Kai Han , Yunhe Wang , Hanting Chen , Xinghao Chen , Jianyuan Guo , Zhenhua Liu , Yehui Tang , An Xiao , Chunjing Xu , Yixing Xu , Zhaohui Yang , Yiman Zhang , Dacheng Tao

Recent studies in neuroscience highlight the significant potential of brain connectivity networks, which are commonly constructed from functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data for brain disorder diagnosis. Traditional brain…

We tackle classification based on brain connectivity derived from diffusion magnetic resonance images. We propose a machine-learning model inspired by graph convolutional networks (GCNs), which takes a brain connectivity input graph and…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2023-09-21 Anees Kazi , Jocelyn Mora , Bruce Fischl , Adrian V. Dalca , Iman Aganj

Analyzing connections between brain regions of interest (ROI) is vital to detect neurological disorders such as autism or schizophrenia. Recent advancements employ graph neural networks (GNNs) to utilize graph structures in brains,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-03 Falih Gozi Febrinanto , Mujie Liu , Feng Xia

The human brain is a complex and highly dynamic system, and our current knowledge of its functional mechanism is still very limited. Fortunately, with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), we can observe blood oxygen level-dependent…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2024-12-31 Yifei Sun , Mariano Cabezas , Jiah Lee , Chenyu Wang , Wei Zhang , Fernando Calamante , Jinglei Lv

The human brain can be considered as complex networks, composed of various regions that continuously exchange their information with each other, forming the brain network graph, from which nodes and edges are extracted using resting-state…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Parnian Jalali , Mehran Safayani

The Transformer is a sequence model that forgoes traditional recurrent architectures in favor of a fully attention-based approach. Besides improving performance, an advantage of using attention is that it can also help to interpret a model…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-06-14 Jesse Vig

Learning vector representations for programs is a critical step in applying deep learning techniques for program understanding tasks. Various neural network models are proposed to learn from tree-structured program representations, e.g.,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Wenhan Wang , Kechi Zhang , Ge Li , Shangqing Liu , Anran Li , Zhi Jin , Yang Liu

Modern neuroimaging techniques, such as diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), enable us to model the human brain as a brain network or connectome. Capturing brain networks' structural information…

Network models describe the brain as sets of nodes and edges that represent its distributed organization. So far, most discoveries in network neuroscience have prioritized insights that highlight distinct groupings and specialized…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2021-05-18 Joshua Faskowitz , Richard F. Betzel , Olaf Sporns

Neuropsychiatric disorders impact functional connectivity of the brain at the network level. The identification and statistical testing of disorder-related networks remains challenging. We propose novel methods to streamline the detection…

Applications · Statistics 2017-01-16 Shuo Chen , Yishi Xing , Jian Kang , Dinesh Shukla , Peter Kochunov , L. Elliot Hong

The Transformer is a highly successful deep learning model that has revolutionised the world of artificial neural networks, first in natural language processing and later in computer vision. This model is based on the attention mechanism…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Riccardo Ughi , Eugenio Lomurno , Matteo Matteucci

Attention networks have proven to be an effective approach for embedding categorical inference within a deep neural network. However, for many tasks we may want to model richer structural dependencies without abandoning end-to-end training.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-02-17 Yoon Kim , Carl Denton , Luong Hoang , Alexander M. Rush

Dynamic networks have been increasingly used to characterize brain connectivity that varies during resting and task states. In such characterizations, a connectivity network is typically measured at each time point for a subject over a…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-03-23 Maoyu Zhang , Biao Cai , Wenlin Dai , Dehan Kong , Hongyu Zhao , Jingfei Zhang

An effective aggregation of node features into a graph-level representation via readout functions is an essential step in numerous learning tasks involving graph neural networks. Typically, readouts are simple and non-adaptive functions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-10 David Buterez , Jon Paul Janet , Steven J. Kiddle , Dino Oglic , Pietro Liò

The human brain is a highly efficient processing unit, and understanding how it works can inspire new algorithms and architectures in machine learning. In this work, we introduce a novel framework named Brain Activation Network (BRACTIVE),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Xuan-Bac Nguyen , Hojin Jang , Xin Li , Samee U. Khan , Pawan Sinha , Khoa Luu