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The wisdom of crowds has been shown to operate not only for factual judgments but also in matters of taste, where accuracy is defined relative to an individual's preferences. However, it remains unclear how different types of social signals…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-02-12 Itsuki Fujisaki , Kunhao Yang

In recent years, Transformer architectures have revolutionized most fields of artificial intelligence, relying on an attentional mechanism based on the agreement between keys and queries to select and route information in the network. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Andrea Alamia , Sabine Muzellec , Thomas Serre , Rufin VanRullen

Spontaneous cortical population activity exhibits a multitude of oscillatory patterns, which often display synchrony during slow-wave sleep or under certain anesthetics and stay asynchronous during quiet wakefulness. The mechanisms behind…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2018-06-20 Rodrigo F. O. Pena , Michael A. Zaks , Antonio C. Roque

We report on self-induced switchings between multiple distinct space--time patterns in the dynamics of a spatially extended excitable system. These switchings between low-amplitude oscillations, nonlinear waves, and extreme events strongly…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2016-03-21 Gerrit Ansmann , Klaus Lehnertz , Ulrike Feudel

We propose a unified framework for adaptive routing in multitask, multimodal prediction settings where data heterogeneity and task interactions vary across samples. Motivated by applications in psychotherapy where structured assessments and…

Synchronization phenomena are pervasive in biology. In neuronal networks, the mechanisms of synchronization have been extensively studied from both physiological and computational viewpoints. The functional role of synchronization has also…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2009-06-18 Nicolas Tabareau , Jean-Jacques Slotine , Quang-Cuong Pham

Chaotic oscillators have gained significant attention in the research community because of their ability to reproduce and investigate the complex dynamics of real-world phenomena. Recent advances in the design of chaotic oscillator…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-19 Toni Ivas , Georgios Violakis , Roland Richter , Patrik Hoffmann , Sergey Shevchik

Goal-driven selective attention (GDSA) refers to the brain's function of prioritizing the activity of a task-relevant subset of its overall network to efficiently process relevant information while inhibiting the effects of distractions.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-21 Erfan Nozari , Jorge Cortés

We propose a model of an adaptive network of spiking neurons that gives rise to a hypernetwork of its dynamic states at the upper level of description. Left to itself, the network exhibits a sequence of transient clustering which relates to…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2017-05-16 Oleg V. Maslennikov , Dmitry S. Shchapin , Vladimir I. Nekorkin

This paper analyzes a dynamic interaction between a fully rational, privately informed sender and a boundedly rational, uninformed receiver with memory constraints. The sender controls the flow of information, while the receiver designs a…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2025-11-12 Qingmin Liu , Yuyang Miao

We propose a novel self-organized traffic management strategy for incidents in traffic-light-controlled road networks. During incidents, it regulates the inflow into already congested road segments by restricting or skipping green times.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-12-03 Markus Rausch , Stefan Lämmer , Martin Treiber

In a recent article [1] we surveyed advances related to adaptation, learning, and optimization over synchronous networks. Various distributed strategies were discussed that enable a collection of networked agents to interact locally in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-12-13 Ali H. Sayed , Xiaochuan Zhao

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) can be used for implementing cost-efficient artificial intelligence computing or mechanistic modelling of experimentally observed neural data. In the latter, fitting neural data with recurrent SNNs (RSNNs)…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2026-05-26 Divyansh Sethi , Muhammad Faraz , KongFatt Wong-Lin

Co-evolutionary adaptive mechanisms are not only ubiquitous in nature, but also beneficial for the functioning of a variety of systems. We here consider an adaptive network of oscillators with a stochastic, fitness-based, rule of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-06-08 Young-Ho Eom , Stefano Boccaletti , Guido Caldarelli

Human cognition emerges from coordinated spiking dynamics in distributed neural circuits, where information is encoded via both firing rates and precise spike timing determined by brain rhythms. Inspired by this notion, we propose a…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2026-05-05 Tingting Dan , Guorong Wu

Neurons communicate with downstream systems via sparse and incredibly brief electrical pulses, or spikes. Using these events, they control various targets such as neuromuscular units, neurosecretory systems, and other neurons in connected…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2026-03-17 Paolo Agliati , André Urbano , Pablo Lanillos , Nasir Ahmad , Marcel van Gerven , Sander Keemink

Flexible information routing fundamentally underlies the function of many biological and artificial networks. Yet, how such systems may specifically communicate and dynamically route information is not well understood. Here we identify a…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2016-07-08 Christoph Kirst , Marc Timme , Demian Battaglia

Generative models of brain activity have been instrumental in testing hypothesized mechanisms underlying brain dynamics against experimental datasets. Beyond capturing the key mechanisms underlying spontaneous brain dynamics, these models…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2024-11-18 Rishikesan Maran , Eli J. Müller , Ben D. Fulcher

Sequential learning, also called lifelong learning, studies the problem of learning tasks in a sequence with access restricted to only the data of the current task. In this paper we look at a scenario with fixed model capacity, and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-04-15 Rahaf Aljundi , Marcus Rohrbach , Tinne Tuytelaars

In this letter, we propose a new routing strategy with a single free parameter $\alpha$ only based on local information of network topology. In order to maximize the packets handling capacity of underlying structure that can be measured by…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-09-08 Chuan-Yang Yin , Bing-Hong Wang , Wen-Xu Wang , Tao Zhou , Hui-Jie Yang