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A core challenge in the interpretation of deep neural networks is identifying commonalities between the underlying algorithms implemented by distinct networks trained for the same task. Motivated by this problem, we introduce DYNAMO, an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Jordan Cotler , Kai Sheng Tai , Felipe Hernández , Blake Elias , David Sussillo

Human-motion generation is a long-standing challenging task due to the requirement of accurately modeling complex and diverse dynamic patterns. Most existing methods adopt sequence models such as RNN to directly model transitions in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Zhenyi Wang , Ping Yu , Yang Zhao , Ruiyi Zhang , Yufan Zhou , Junsong Yuan , Changyou Chen

Training recurrent neural networks (RNNs) is a hard problem due to degeneracies in the optimization landscape, a problem also known as vanishing/exploding gradients. Short of designing new RNN architectures, previous methods for dealing…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-02-11 A. Emin Orhan , Xaq Pitkow

Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have structures that are loosely related to that of the primate visual cortex. Surprisingly, when these networks are trained for object classification, the activity of their early, intermediate, and…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2016-10-18 Omid Rezai , Pinar Boyraz Jentsch , Bryan Tripp

Activity in the human brain moves between diverse functional states to meet the demands of our dynamic environment, but fundamental principles guiding these transitions remain poorly understood. Here, we capitalize on recent advances in…

When the human brain manifests the birth of organised communication among local and large-scale neuronal populations activity remains undescribed. We report, in resting-state EEG source-estimates of 100 infants at term age, the existence of…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2020-09-08 Steve Mehrkanoon

The brain can be regarded as a network: a connected system where nodes, or units, represent different specialized regions and links, or connections, represent communication pathways. From a functional perspective communication is coded by…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2014-09-10 Fabrizio De Vico Fallani , Jonas Richiardi , Mario Chavez , Sophie Achard

Neural Ordinary Differential Equations (NODEs), a framework of continuous-depth neural networks, have been widely applied, showing exceptional efficacy in coping with some representative datasets. Recently, an augmented framework has been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Qunxi Zhu , Yao Guo , Wei Lin

Drug synergy prediction (DSP) aims to identify efficacious drug combinations under various cellular contexts with different targets. However, the continual emergence of novel compounds results in variations in molecular scaffolds and sizes,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Xin Wang , Linxin Xiao , Yang Yao , Wenwu Zhu

Recent years have witnessed the success of deep neural networks in many research areas. The fundamental idea behind the design of most neural networks is to learn similarity patterns from data for prediction and inference, which lacks the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-24 Shaoyun Shi , Hanxiong Chen , Weizhi Ma , Jiaxin Mao , Min Zhang , Yongfeng Zhang

We develop a framework for the analysis of deep neural networks and neural ODE models that are trained with stochastic gradient algorithms. We do that by identifying the connections between control theory, deep learning and theory of…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-03-18 Jean-François Jabir , David Šiška , Łukasz Szpruch

Biological cortical neurons are remarkably sophisticated computational devices, temporally integrating their vast synaptic input over an intricate dendritic tree, subject to complex, nonlinearly interacting internal biological processes. A…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Aaron Spieler , Nasim Rahaman , Georg Martius , Bernhard Schölkopf , Anna Levina

The integration of Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) and Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) is gradually attracting attention due to the low power consumption and high efficiency in processing the non-Euclidean data represented by graphs. However,…

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With the unprecedented proliferation of machine learning software, there is an ever-increasing need to generate efficient code for such applications. State-of-the-art deep-learning compilers like TVM and Halide incorporate a learning-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Shikhar Singh , Benoit Steiner , James Hegarty , Hugh Leather

Brain activity is intrinsically a neural dynamic process constrained by anatomical space. This leads to significant variations in spatial distribution patterns and correlation patterns of neural activity across variable and heterogeneous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Hongjie Jiang , Yifei Tang , Shuqiang Wang

The brain is known to be a highly complex, asynchronous dynamical system that is highly tailored to encode temporal information. However, recent deep learning approaches to not take advantage of this temporal coding. Spiking Neural Networks…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-09-02 Matthew Evanusa , Cornelia Fermuller , Yiannis Aloimonos

Task-based modeling with recurrent neural networks (RNNs) has emerged as a popular way to infer the computational function of different brain regions. These models are quantitatively assessed by comparing the low-dimensional neural…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2019-12-06 Niru Maheswaranathan , Alex H. Williams , Matthew D. Golub , Surya Ganguli , David Sussillo

Cellular sheaves equip graphs with a "geometrical" structure by assigning vector spaces and linear maps to nodes and edges. Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) implicitly assume a graph with a trivial underlying sheaf. This choice is reflected in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-09 Cristian Bodnar , Francesco Di Giovanni , Benjamin Paul Chamberlain , Pietro Liò , Michael M. Bronstein

Inferring synaptic connectivity from neural population activity is a fundamental challenge in computational neuroscience, complicated by partial observability and mismatches between inference models and true circuit dynamics. In this study,…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-10-28 Kijung Yoon

In this study, we investigate the continuous time dynamics of Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs), focusing on systems with nonlinear activation functions. The objective of this work is to identify conditions under which RNNs exhibit perpetual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Michele Casoni , Tommaso Guidi , Alessandro Betti , Stefano Melacci , Marco Gori