Structure of attractors in randomly connected networks.

Taro Toyoizumi, Haiping Huang
Author Information
  1. Taro Toyoizumi: RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Wako-shi, Saitama 351-0198, Japan and Department of Computational Intelligence and Systems Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama 226-8502, Japan.
  2. Haiping Huang: RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Wako-shi, Saitama 351-0198, Japan.

Abstract

The deterministic dynamics of randomly connected neural networks are studied, where a state of binary neurons evolves according to a discrete-time synchronous update rule. We give theoretical support that the overlap of systems' states between the current and a previous time develops in time according to a Markovian stochastic process in large networks. This Markovian process predicts how often a network revisits one of the previously visited states, depending on the system size. The state concentration probability, i.e., the probability that two distinct states coevolve to the same state, is utilized to analytically derive various characteristics that quantify attractors' structure. The analytical predictions about the total number of attractors, the typical cycle length, and the number of states belonging to all attractive cycles match well with numerical simulations for relatively large system sizes.

MeSH Term

Markov Chains
Models, Neurological
Nerve Net
Neurons
Probability
Stochastic Processes

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