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Measuring similarity of neural networks to understand and improve their behavior has become an issue of great importance and research interest. In this survey, we provide a comprehensive overview of two complementary perspectives of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Max Klabunde , Tobias Schumacher , Markus Strohmaier , Florian Lemmerich

Neural networks surround us, in the form of large language models, speech transcription systems, molecular discovery algorithms, robotics, and much more. Stripped of anything else, neural networks are compositions of differentiable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Simone Scardapane

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

We study a model of associative memory based on a neural network with small-world structure. The efficacy of the network to retrieve one of the stored patterns exhibits a phase transition at a finite value of the disorder. The more ordered…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2009-11-10 Luis G. Morelli , Guillermo Abramson , Marcelo N. Kuperman

In recent years, deep neural network is introduced in recommender systems to solve the collaborative filtering problem, which has achieved immense success on computer vision, speech recognition and natural language processing. On one hand,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Ge Fan , Wei Zeng , Shan Sun , Biao Geng , Weiyi Wang , Weibo Liu

Machine learning techniques have emerged as powerful tools to tackle various challenges. The integration of machine learning methods with Physics has led to innovative approaches in understanding, controlling, and simulating physical…

Physics Education · Physics 2025-05-20 G. Café de Miranda , Gubio G. de Lima , Tiago de S. Farias

Associative memory has been a prominent candidate for the computation performed by the massively recurrent neocortical networks. Attractor networks implementing associative memory have offered mechanistic explanation for many cognitive…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Naresh Balaji Ravichandran , Anders Lansner , Pawel Herman

This article studies (multilayer perceptron) neural networks with an emphasis on the transformations involved --- both forward and backward --- in order to develop a semantical/logical perspective that is in line with standard program…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Bart Jacobs , David Sprunger

In several domains, data objects can be decomposed into sets of simpler objects. It is then natural to represent each object as the set of its components or parts. Many conventional machine learning algorithms are unable to process this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Konstantinos Skianis , Giannis Nikolentzos , Stratis Limnios , Michalis Vazirgiannis

Recommender systems objectives can be broadly characterized as modeling user preferences over short-or long-term time horizon. A large body of previous research studied long-term recommendation through dimensionality reduction techniques…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-07-25 Kiewan Villatel , Elena Smirnova , Jérémie Mary , Philippe Preux

To make progress in science, we often build abstract representations of physical systems that meaningfully encode information about the systems. The representations learnt by most current machine learning techniques reflect statistical…

Convolutional neural networks have been used to achieve a string of successes during recent years, but their lack of interpretability remains a serious issue. Adversarial examples are designed to deliberately fool neural networks into…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Jan Philip Göpfert , André Artelt , Heiko Wersing , Barbara Hammer

This article highlights specific features of biological neurons and their dendritic trees, whose adoption may help advance artificial neural networks used in various machine learning applications. Advancements could take the form of…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2021-06-15 Spyridon Chavlis , Panayiota Poirazi

Dynamic neural network is an emerging research topic in deep learning. Compared to static models which have fixed computational graphs and parameters at the inference stage, dynamic networks can adapt their structures or parameters to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-03 Yizeng Han , Gao Huang , Shiji Song , Le Yang , Honghui Wang , Yulin Wang

This paper presents the design of an associative memory with feedback that is capable of on-line temporal sequence learning. A framework for on-line sequence learning has been proposed, and different sequence learning models have been…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2007-05-23 J. Bose , S. B. Furber , J. L. Shapiro

Recent progress in artificial intelligence (AI) has renewed interest in building systems that learn and think like people. Many advances have come from using deep neural networks trained end-to-end in tasks such as object recognition, video…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-11-03 Brenden M. Lake , Tomer D. Ullman , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , Samuel J. Gershman

Neural networks based on soft and biological matter constitute an interesting potential alternative to traditional implementations based on electric circuits. DNA is a particularly promising system in this context due its natural ability to…

Biological Physics · Physics 2026-01-22 Michael te Vrugt

This paper describes some biologically-inspired processes that could be used to build the sort of networks that we associate with the human brain. New to this paper, a 'refined' neuron will be proposed. This is a group of neurons that by…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-02-06 Kieran Greer

We hypothesize that curiosity is a mechanism found by evolution that encourages meaningful exploration early in an agent's life in order to expose it to experiences that enable it to obtain high rewards over the course of its lifetime. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-12 Ferran Alet , Martin F. Schneider , Tomas Lozano-Perez , Leslie Pack Kaelbling

This work attempts to explain the types of computation that neural networks can perform by relating them to automata. We first define what it means for a real-time network with bounded precision to accept a language. A measure of network…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-06 William Merrill