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While many approaches to make neural networks more fathomable have been proposed, they are restricted to interrogating the network with input data. Measures for characterizing and monitoring structural properties, however, have not been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-30 Bastian Rieck , Matteo Togninalli , Christian Bock , Michael Moor , Max Horn , Thomas Gumbsch , Karsten Borgwardt

Graph deep learning models, a class of AI-driven approaches employing a message aggregation mechanism, have gained popularity for analyzing the functional brain connectome in neuroimaging. However, their actual effectiveness remains…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Keqi Han , Yao Su , Lifang He , Liang Zhan , Sergey Plis , Vince Calhoun , Carl Yang

The brain's functional connectivity fluctuates over time instead of remaining steady in a stationary mode even during the resting state. This fluctuation establishes the dynamical functional connectivity that transitions in a non-random…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2022-03-28 Shikuang Deng , Jingwei Li , B. T. Thomas Yeo , Shi Gu

Despite the tremendous success of graph-based learning systems in handling structural data, it has been widely investigated that they are fragile to adversarial attacks on homophilic graph data, where adversaries maliciously modify the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Yulin Zhu , Yuni Lai , Xing Ai , Wai Lun LO , Gaolei Li , Jianhua Li , Di Tang , Xingxing Zhang , Mengpei Yang , Kai Zhou

Volumetric brain reconstructions provide an unprecedented opportunity to gain insights into the complex connectivity patterns of neurons in an increasing number of organisms. Here, we model and quantify the complexity of the resulting…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2024-05-13 Anastasiya Salova , István A. Kovács

Homophily principle, \ie{} nodes with the same labels or similar attributes are more likely to be connected, has been commonly believed to be the main reason for the superiority of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) over traditional Neural…

Although neural networks are capable of reaching astonishing performances on a wide variety of contexts, properly training networks on complicated tasks requires expertise and can be expensive from a computational perspective. In industrial…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-05-11 Théo Lacombe , Yuichi Ike , Mathieu Carriere , Frédéric Chazal , Marc Glisse , Yuhei Umeda

At the intersection of computation and cognitive science, graph theory is utilized as a formalized description of complex relationships and structures. Traditional graph models are often static, lacking dynamic and autonomous behavioral…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2024-06-11 Hui Wei , Chenyue Feng , Jianning Zhang

Brain function and connectivity is a pressing mystery in medicine related to many diseases. Neural connectomes have been studied as graphs with graph theory methods including topological methods. Work has started on hypergraph models and…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-05-09 Michael G. Rawson

We aimed to explore the capability of deep learning to approximate the function instantiated by biological neural circuits-the functional connectome. Using deep neural networks, we performed supervised learning with firing rate observations…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2022-11-24 Sihao Liu , Augustine N Mavor-Parker , Caswell Barry

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have been shown to memorize their training data, yet similar analyses for graph neural networks (GNNs) remain largely under-explored. We introduce NCMemo (Node Classification Memorization), the first framework to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Adarsh Jamadandi , Jing Xu , Adam Dziedzic , Franziska Boenisch

Learning-based precoding has been shown able to be implemented in real-time, jointly optimized with channel acquisition, and robust to imperfect channels. Yet previous works rarely explain the design choices and learning performance, and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-02 Baichuan Zhao , Jia Guo , Chenyang Yang

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

Despite much research, Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) still do not display the favorable scaling properties of other deep neural networks such as Convolutional Neural Networks and Transformers. Previous work has identified issues such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Ameen Ali , Hakan Cevikalp , Lior Wolf

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

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are processing architectures that exploit graph structural information to model representations from network data. Despite their success, GNNs suffer from sub-optimal generalization performance given limited…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Zhan Gao , Subhrajit Bhattacharya , Leiming Zhang , Rick S. Blum , Alejandro Ribeiro , Brian M. Sadler

Mapping the connectivity of neurons in the brain (i.e., connectomics) is a challenging problem due to both the number of connections in even the smallest organisms and the nanometer resolution required to resolve them. Because of this,…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2014-09-08 Ting Zhao , Stephen M Plaza

The connectome, a map of the structural and/or functional connections in the brain, provides a complex representation of the neurobiological phenotypes on which it supervenes. This information-rich data modality has the potential to…

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have become increasingly popular for classification tasks on graph-structured data. Yet, the interplay between graph topology and feature evolution in GNNs is not well understood. In this paper, we focus on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Vignesh Kothapalli , Tom Tirer , Joan Bruna

In this technical note, we study the controllability of diffusively coupled networks from a graph theoretic perspective. We consider leader-follower networks, where the external control inputs are injected to only some of the agents, namely…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-08-17 A. Yasin Yazicioglu , Waseem Abbas , Magnus Egerstedt