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Significant variations of delays among connecting neurons cause an inevitable disadvantage of asynchronous brain dynamics compared to synchronous deep learning. However, this study demonstrates that this disadvantage can be converted into a…

Biological Physics · Physics 2024-10-16 Yuval Meir , Ofek Tevet , Yarden Tzach , Shiri Hodassman , Ido Kanter

The neural mechanism of memory has a very close relation with the problem of representation in artificial intelligence. In this paper a computational model was proposed to simulate the network of neurons in brain and how they process…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2020-12-02 Hui Wei

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) are investigated as biologically inspired models of neural computation, distinguished by their computational capability and energy efficiency due to precise spiking times and sparse spikes with event-driven…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Mingqing Xiao , Yixin Zhu , Di He , Zhouchen Lin

This paper builds on the connection between graph neural networks and traditional dynamical systems. We propose continuous graph neural networks (CGNN), which generalise existing graph neural networks with discrete dynamics in that they can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-17 Louis-Pascal A. C. Xhonneux , Meng Qu , Jian Tang

Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) have become the state-of-the-art choice for extracting patterns from temporal sequences. However, current RNN models are ill-suited to process irregularly sampled data triggered by events generated in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-01 Daniel Neil , Michael Pfeiffer , Shih-Chii Liu

Due to the special gating schemes of Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM), LSTMs have shown greater potential to process complex sequential information than the traditional Recurrent Neural Network (RNN). The conventional LSTM, however, fails to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-13 Naifan Zhuang , The Duc Kieu , Guo-Jun Qi , Kien A. Hua

Dynamical modeling of multisite human intracranial neural recordings is essential for developing neurotechnologies such as brain-computer interfaces (BCIs). Linear dynamical models are widely used for this purpose due to their…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-12-30 Kiarash Vaziri , Lucine L. Oganesian , HyeongChan Jo , Roberto M. C. Vera , Charles Y. Liu , Brian Lee , Maryam M. Shanechi

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) currently face a critical bottleneck: while individual neurons exhibit dynamic biological properties, their macro-scopic architectures remain confined within conventional connectivity patterns that are static…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Yongsheng Huang , Peibo Duan , Yujie Wu , Kai Sun , Zhipeng Liu , Jiaxiang Liu , Guangyu Li , Changsheng Zhang , Bin Zhang , Mingkun Xu

Memory is an important cognitive function for humans. How a brain with such a small power can complete such a complex memory function, the working mechanism behind this is undoubtedly fascinating. Engram theory views memory as the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Hui Wei , Weihua Miao , Fushun Li

Communication within or between complex systems is commonplace in the natural sciences and fields such as graph neural networks. The brain is a perfect example of such a complex system, where communication between brain regions is…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2022-10-10 Eloy Geenjaar , Noah Lewis , Amrit Kashyap , Robyn Miller , Vince Calhoun

We study the ability of neural networks to calculate feedback control signals that steer trajectories of continuous time non-linear dynamical systems on graphs, which we represent with neural ordinary differential equations (neural ODEs).…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Thomas Asikis , Lucas Böttcher , Nino Antulov-Fantulin

Functional connectivity refers to the temporal statistical relationship between spatially distinct brain regions and is usually inferred from the time series coherence/correlation in brain activity between regions of interest. In human…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-03-02 Shaurabh Nandy , Richard M. Golden

Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) are widely used in computational neuroscience and machine learning applications. In an RNN, each neuron computes its output as a nonlinear function of its integrated input. While the importance of RNNs,…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2012-07-10 Sebastian Bitzer , Stefan J. Kiebel

The brain is an intricately structured organ responsible for the rich emergent dynamics that support the complex cognitive functions we enjoy as humans. With around $10^{11}$ neurons and $10^{15}$ synapses, understanding how the human brain…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2019-02-12 Jason Z. Kim , Danielle S. Bassett

In recent years, spiking neural networks (SNNs) have attracted substantial interest due to their potential to replicate the energy-efficient and event-driven processing of biological neurons. Despite this, the application of SNNs in graph…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Mingkun Xu , Huifeng Yin , Yujie Wu , Guoqi Li , Faqiang Liu , Jing Pei , Shuai Zhong , Lei Deng

Understanding cognitive flexibility and task-switching mechanisms in neural systems requires biologically plausible computational models. This tutorial presents a step-by-step approach to constructing a spiking neural network (SNN) that…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-03-07 Ashwin Viswanathan Kannan , Madhumitha Ganesan

Circuits of biological neurons, such as in the functional parts of the brain can be modeled as networks of coupled oscillators. Inspired by the ability of these systems to express a rich set of outputs while keeping (gradients of) state…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-16 T. Konstantin Rusch , Siddhartha Mishra

Functional networks provide a topological description of activity patterns in the brain, as they stem from the propagation of neural activity on the underlying anatomical or structural network of synaptic connections. This latter is well…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-02-11 Ali Safari , Paolo Moretti , Ibai Diez , Jesus M. Cortes , Miguel Ángel Muñoz

The neural dynamics underlying brain activity are critical to understanding cognitive processes and mental disorders. However, current voxel-based whole-brain dimensionality reduction techniques fall short of capturing these dynamics,…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2023-05-25 Eloy Geenjaar , Donghyun Kim , Riyasat Ohib , Marlena Duda , Amrit Kashyap , Sergey Plis , Vince Calhoun

Graph neural networks (GNNs) naturally align with sparse operators and unstructured discretizations, making them a promising paradigm for physics-informed machine learning in computational mechanics. Motivated by discrete physics losses and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Jianchuan Yang , Xi Chen , Jidong Zhao