Robustness of synchronization of heterogeneous agents by strong coupling and a large number of agents

J Kim, J Yang, H Shim, JS Kim… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This technical note studies robustness of synchronization against heterogeneity of multi-
agent systems. Here, heterogeneity also includes uncertainties and external disturbances in …

Continuous-time stochastic mirror descent on a network: Variance reduction, consensus, convergence

M Raginsky, J Bouvrie - 2012 IEEE 51st IEEE Conference on …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The method of Mirror Descent (MD), originally proposed by Nemirovski and Yudin in the late
1970s, has recently seen a major resurgence in the fields of large-scale optimization and …

Accuracy and response-time distributions for decision-making: linear perfect integrators versus nonlinear attractor-based neural circuits

P Miller, DB Katz - Journal of computational neuroscience, 2013 - Springer
Animals choose actions based on imperfect, ambiguous data.“Noise” inherent in neural
processing adds further variability to this already-noisy input signal. Mathematical analysis …

Nonlinear dynamics based digital logic and circuits

B Kia, JF Lindner, WL Ditto - Frontiers in computational neuroscience, 2015 - frontiersin.org
We discuss the role and importance of dynamics in the brain and biological neural networks
and argue that dynamics is one of the main missing elements in conventional Boolean logic …

Role of network topology in noise reduction using coupled dynamics

V Kohar, S Kia, B Kia, JF Lindner, WL Ditto - Nonlinear Dynamics, 2016 - Springer
We study the usefulness of coupled redundancy as a mechanism for reduction in local noise
in coupled map lattices and investigate the role of network topology, coupling strength, and …

Exponential synchronization of stochastic reaction-diffusion fuzzy Cohen-Grossberg neural networks with time-varying delays via periodically intermittent control

Q Gan, Y Li - Journal of Dynamic Systems …, 2013 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
In this paper, the exponential synchronization problem for fuzzy Cohen-Grossberg neural
networks with time-varying delays, stochastic noise disturbance, and reaction-diffusion …

Superlinearly scalable noise robustness of redundant coupled dynamical systems

V Kohar, B Kia, JF Lindner, WL Ditto - Physical Review E, 2016 - APS
We illustrate through theory and numerical simulations that redundant coupled dynamical
systems can be extremely robust against local noise in comparison to uncoupled dynamical …

Synchronization can control regularization in neural systems via correlated noise processes

J Bouvrie, J Slotine - Advances in Neural Information …, 2012 - proceedings.neurips.cc
To learn reliable rules that can generalize to novel situations, the brain must be capable of
imposing some form of regularization. Here we suggest, through theoretical and …

Synchronization and noise: A mechanism for regularization in neural systems

J Bouvrie, JJ Slotine - arXiv preprint arXiv:1312.1632, 2013 - arxiv.org
To learn and reason in the presence of uncertainty, the brain must be capable of imposing
some form of regularization. Here we suggest, through theoretical and computational …

States and sequences of paired contractive subspace ideals and their relationship to patterned brain function

RG Law - 2014 - search.proquest.com
It is found here that the state of a network of coupled ordinary differential equations is
partially localizable through a pair of contractive ideal subspaces, chosen from dual …