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This paper investigates the learnability of the nonlinearity property of Boolean functions using neural networks. We train encoder style deep neural networks to learn to predict the nonlinearity of Boolean functions from examples of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Sriram Ranga , Nandish Chattopadhyay , Anupam Chattopadhyay

This paper presents the foundation for a decomposition theory for Boolean networks, a type of discrete dynamical system that has found a wide range of applications in the life sciences, engineering, and physics. Given a Boolean network…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-06-10 Claus Kadelka , Reinhard Laubenbacher , David Murrugarra , Alan Veliz-Cuba , Matthew Wheeler

A main open question in contemporary AI research is quantifying the forms of reasoning neural networks can perform when perfectly trained. This paper answers this by interpreting reasoning tasks as circuit emulation, where the gates define…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Anastasis Kratsios , Dennis Zvigelsky , Bradd Hart

Boolean automata networks (aka Boolean networks) are space-time discrete dynamical systems, studied as a model of computation and as a representative model of natural phenomena. A collection of simple entities (the automata) update their…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-02-12 Kévin Perrot , Sylvain Sené , Léah Tapin

The information processing abilities of a multilayer neural network with a number of hidden units scaling as the input dimension are studied using statistical mechanics methods. The mapping from the input layer to the hidden units is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Michal Rosen-Zvi , Andreas Engel , Ido Kanter

It is difficult to describe in mathematical terms what a neural network trained on data represents. On the other hand, there is a growing mathematical understanding of what neural networks are in principle capable of representing.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Daan Huybrechs

Scaling model capacity has been vital in the success of deep learning. For a typical network, necessary compute resources and training time grow dramatically with model size. Conditional computation is a promising way to increase the number…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-14 Louis Kirsch , Julius Kunze , David Barber

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,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-05-13 Abdul Salam Jarrah , Reinhard Laubenbacher , Alan Veliz-Cuba

Boolean circuit is a computational graph that consists of the dynamic directed graph structure and static functionality. The commonly used logic optimization and Boolean matching-based transformation can change the behavior of the Boolean…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Liwei Ni , Xinquan Li , Biwei Xie , Huawei Li

In traditional software programs, it is easy to trace program logic from variables back to input, apply assertion statements to block erroneous behavior, and compose programs together. Although deep learning programs have demonstrated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Mike Wu , Noah Goodman , Stefano Ermon

We develop a method for training neural networks on Boolean data in which the values at all nodes are strictly $\pm 1$, and the resulting models are typically equivalent to networks whose nonzero weights are also $\pm 1$. The method…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Veit Elser , Manish Krishan Lal

This paper studies the mathematical properties of collectively canalizing Boolean functions, a class of functions that has arisen from applications in systems biology. Boolean networks are an increasingly popular modeling framework for…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Claus Kadelka , Benjamin Keilty , Reinhard Laubenbacher

This article is concerned with the approximation and expressive powers of deep neural networks. This is an active research area currently producing many interesting papers. The results most commonly found in the literature prove that neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-08 I. Daubechies , R. DeVore , S. Foucart , B. Hanin , G. Petrova

Boolean networks model finite discrete dynamical systems with complex behaviours. The state of each component is determined by a Boolean function of the state of (a subset of) the components of the network. This paper addresses the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-02-28 Stéphanie Chevalier , Christine Froidevaux , Loïc Paulevé , Andrei Zinovyev

Canalization is a key organizing principle in complex systems, particularly in gene regulatory networks. It describes how certain input variables exert dominant control over a function's output, thereby imposing hierarchical structure and…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Claus Kadelka

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

Deep learning is computationally intensive, with significant efforts focused on reducing arithmetic complexity, particularly regarding energy consumption dominated by data movement. While existing literature emphasizes inference, training…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-09 Van Minh Nguyen , Cristian Ocampo , Aymen Askri , Louis Leconte , Ba-Hien Tran

Functional networks of complex systems are obtained from the analysis of the temporal activity of their components, and are often used to infer their unknown underlying connectivity. We obtain the equations relating topology and function in…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-03-18 Víctor M. Eguíluz , Toni Pérez , Javier Borge-Holtoefer , Alex Arenas

The synergy between spiking neural networks and neuromorphic hardware holds promise for the development of energy-efficient AI applications. Inspired by this potential, we revisit the foundational aspects to study the capabilities of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Manjot Singh , Adalbert Fono , Gitta Kutyniok

We study the numerical and Boolean expressiveness of MPLang, a declarative language that captures the computation of graph neural networks (GNNs) through linear message passing and activation functions. We begin with A-MPLang, the fragment…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Pablo Barceló , Floris Geerts , Matthias Lanzinger , Klara Pakhomenko , Jan Van den Bussche