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Active perception has been employed in many domains, particularly in the field of robotics. The idea of active perception is to utilize the input data to predict the next action that can help robots to improve their performance. The main…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Elijah S. Lee

In neural networks, task-relevant information is represented jointly by groups of neurons. However, the specific way in which this mutual information about the classification label is distributed among the individual neurons is not well…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-08 David A. Ehrlich , Andreas C. Schneider , Viola Priesemann , Michael Wibral , Abdullah Makkeh

We propose a neural embedding algorithm called Network Vector, which learns distributed representations of nodes and the entire networks simultaneously. By embedding networks in a low-dimensional space, the algorithm allows us to compare…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-09-11 Hao Wu , Kristina Lerman

The current understanding of deep neural networks can only partially explain how input structure, network parameters and optimization algorithms jointly contribute to achieve the strong generalization power that is typically observed in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-28 Francesco Craighero , Fabrizio Angaroni , Alex Graudenzi , Fabio Stella , Marco Antoniotti

Graph neural networks (GNNs) demonstrate great performance in compound property and activity prediction due to their capability to efficiently learn complex molecular graph structures. However, two main limitations persist including…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-10-10 Apakorn Kengkanna , Masahito Ohue

Brains learn to represent information from a large set of stimuli, typically by weak supervision. Unsupervised learning is therefore a natural approach for exploring the design of biological neural networks and their computations.…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-10-17 Roy Urbach , Elad Schneidman

Partial synchronization plays a crucial role in the functioning of neuronal networks: selective, coordinated activation of neurons enables information processing that flexibly adapts to a changing computational context. Since the structure…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-06-17 Daniil Radushev , Olesia Dogonasheva , Boris Gutkin , Denis Zakharov

Neural networks are often regarded as "black boxes" due to their complex functions and numerous parameters, which poses significant challenges for interpretability. This study addresses these challenges by introducing methods to enhance the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-09-26 Mohamad Yamen AL Mohamad , Hossein Bevrani , Ali Akbar Haydari

We introduce a novel approach to feed-forward neural network interpretation based on partitioning the space of sequences of neuron activations. In line with this approach, we propose a model-specific interpretation method, called YASENN.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-08 Yaroslav Zharov , Denis Korzhenkov , Pavel Shvechikov , Alexander Tuzhilin

Understanding the relation between cortical neuronal network structure and neuronal activity is a fundamental unresolved question in neuroscience, with implications to our understanding of the mechanism by which neuronal networks evolve…

Recent NLP studies reveal that substantial linguistic information can be attributed to single neurons, i.e., individual dimensions of the representation vectors. We hypothesize that modeling strong interactions among neurons helps to better…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-25 Jian Li , Xing Wang , Baosong Yang , Shuming Shi , Michael R. Lyu , Zhaopeng Tu

Activity recognition has become a popular research branch in the field of pervasive computing in recent years. A large number of experiments can be obtained that activity sensor-based data's characteristic in activity recognition is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-21 Li Xue , Si Xiandong , Nie Lanshun , Li Jiazhen , Ding Renjie , Zhan Dechen , Chu Dianhui

It is widely believed that learning good representations is one of the main reasons for the success of deep neural networks. Although highly intuitive, there is a lack of theory and systematic approach quantitatively characterizing what…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-30 Liwei Wang , Lunjia Hu , Jiayuan Gu , Yue Wu , Zhiqiang Hu , Kun He , John Hopcroft

We present neural activation coding (NAC) as a novel approach for learning deep representations from unlabeled data for downstream applications. We argue that the deep encoder should maximize its nonlinear expressivity on the data for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-09 Yookoon Park , Sangho Lee , Gunhee Kim , David M. Blei

In this study, we examine the potential of one of the ``superexpressive'' networks in the context of learning neural functions for representing complex signals and performing machine learning downstream tasks. Our focus is on evaluating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Uvini Balasuriya Mudiyanselage , Woojin Cho , Minju Jo , Noseong Park , Kookjin Lee

Quantitative modeling of human brain activity based on language representations has been actively studied in systems neuroscience. However, previous studies examined word-level representation, and little is known about whether we could…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-08 Eri Matsuo , Ichiro Kobayashi , Shinji Nishimoto , Satoshi Nishida , Hideki Asoh

We propose and study a method for learning interpretable representations for the task of regression. Features are represented as networks of multi-type expression trees comprised of activation functions common in neural networks in addition…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-03-26 William La Cava , Tilak Raj Singh , James Taggart , Srinivas Suri , Jason H. Moore

We take an image science perspective on the problem of determining brain network connectivity given functional activity. But adapting the concept of image resolution to this problem, we provide a new perspective on network partitioning for…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2020-02-14 Keith Dillon , Yu-Ping Wang

Investigating the spectral properties of the neural covariates that underlie spiking activity is an important problem in systems neuroscience, as it allows to study the role of brain rhythms in cognitive functions. While the spectral…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-21 Proloy Das , Behtash Babadi

Achieving transparency in black-box deep learning algorithms is still an open challenge. High dimensional features and decisions given by deep neural networks (NN) require new algorithms and methods to expose its mechanisms. Current…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-12 Schyler C. Sun , Chen Li , Zhuangkun Wei , Antonios Tsourdos , Weisi Guo