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Continuous, adaptive learning, the ability to adapt to the environment and keep improving performance, is a hallmark of natural intelligence. Biological organisms excel in acquiring, transferring, and retaining knowledge while adapting to…

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Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have shown unparalleled achievements in numerous applications, reflecting their proficiency in managing vast data sets. Yet, their static structure limits their adaptability in ever-changing environments. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Yunjie Zhu , Yunhao Chen

While deep neural networks take loose inspiration from neuroscience, it is an open question how seriously to take the analogies between artificial deep networks and biological neuronal systems. Interestingly, recent work has shown that deep…

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Attractor neural network models of cortical decision-making circuits represent them as dynamical systems in the state space of neural firing rates with the attractors of the network encoding possible decisions. While the attractors of these…

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In spite of the recent interest and advances in linear controllability of complex networks, controlling nonlinear network dynamics remains to be an outstanding problem. We develop an experimentally feasible control framework for nonlinear…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2015-09-24 Le-Zhi Wang , Ri-Qi Su , Zi-Gang Huang , Xiao Wang , Wenxu Wang , Celso Grebogi , Ying-Cheng Lai

Humans and animals have the ability to continually acquire, fine-tune, and transfer knowledge and skills throughout their lifespan. This ability, referred to as lifelong learning, is mediated by a rich set of neurocognitive mechanisms that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-12 German I. Parisi , Ronald Kemker , Jose L. Part , Christopher Kanan , Stefan Wermter

Continuous attractors have been used to understand recent neuroscience experiments where persistent activity patterns encode internal representations of external attributes like head direction or spatial location. However, the conditions…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-01-01 Weishun Zhong , Zhiyue Lu , David J Schwab , Arvind Murugan

Regardless of the marked differences between biological and artificial neural systems, one fundamental similarity is that they are essentially dynamical systems that can learn to imitate other dynamical systems, without knowing their…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2019-11-06 Zhixin Lu , Danielle S. Bassett

Graph Convolutional Neural Networks (Graph CNNs) are generalizations of classical CNNs to handle graph data such as molecular data, point could and social networks. Current filters in graph CNNs are built for fixed and shared graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-01-11 Ruoyu Li , Sheng Wang , Feiyun Zhu , Junzhou Huang

Identification of attractors, that is, stable states and sustained oscillations, is an important step in the analysis of Boolean models and exploration of potential variants. We describe an approach to the search for asynchronous cyclic…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Elisa Tonello , Loïc Paulevé

Learning a task induces connectivity changes in neural circuits, thereby changing their dynamics. To elucidate task related neural dynamics we study trained Recurrent Neural Networks. We develop a Mean Field Theory for Reservoir Computing…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2017-06-28 Alexander Rivkind , Omri Barak

Artificial Intelligence has advanced significantly in recent years thanks to innovations in the design and training of artificial neural networks (ANNs). Despite these advancements, we still understand relatively little about how elementary…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-08-05 Jack O'Hagan , Andrew Keane , Andrew Flynn

The fields of neural computation and artificial neural networks have developed much in the last decades. Most of the works in these fields focus on implementing and/or learning discrete functions or behavior. However, technical, physical,…

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Boolean Networks (BNs) describe the time evolution of binary states using logic functions on the nodes of a network. They are fundamental models for complex discrete dynamical systems, with applications in various areas of science and…

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Artificial neural networks (ANNs) exhibit a narrow scope of expertise on stationary independent data. However, the data in the real world is continuous and dynamic, and ANNs must adapt to novel scenarios while also retaining the learned…

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A profound challenge for A-Life is to construct agents whose behavior is 'life-like' in a deep way. We propose an architecture and approach to constructing networks driving artificial agents, using processes analogous to the processes that…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Addison Wood , Jory Schossau , Nick Sabaj , Richard Liu , Mark Reimers

With the increasing acquisition of large-scale neural recordings comes the challenge of inferring the computations they perform and understanding how these give rise to behavior. Here, we review emerging conceptual and technological…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2019-06-25 Simon Musall , Anne Urai , David Sussillo , Anne Churchland

This article explores the design and experimentation of a neural network architecture capable of dynamically adjusting its internal structure based on the input data. The proposed model introduces a routing mechanism that allows each layer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Dmytro Hospodarchuk

A recurrent neural network model storing multiple spatial maps, or ``charts'', is analyzed. A network of this type has been suggested as a model for the origin of place cells in the hippocampus of rodents. The extremely diluted and fully…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-31 Francesco P. Battaglia , Alessandro Treves

Deep neural networks have excelled on a wide range of problems, from vision to language and game playing. Neural networks very gradually incorporate information into weights as they process data, requiring very low learning rates. If the…