Attractor and integrator networks in the brain

M Khona, IR Fiete - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2022 - nature.com
In this Review, we describe the singular success of attractor neural network models in
describing how the brain maintains persistent activity states for working memory, corrects …

Rethinking brain-wide interactions through multi-region 'network of networks' models

MG Perich, K Rajan - Current opinion in neurobiology, 2020 - Elsevier
Highlights•Brains can be viewed as a composition of anatomically distinct modules called
regions.•Brain regions interact in complex ways to form a 'network of networks'.•Untangling …

Training deep neural density estimators to identify mechanistic models of neural dynamics

PJ Gonçalves, JM Lueckmann, M Deistler… - Elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
Mechanistic modeling in neuroscience aims to explain observed phenomena in terms of
underlying causes. However, determining which model parameters agree with complex and …

An approximate line attractor in the hypothalamus encodes an aggressive state

A Nair, T Karigo, B Yang, S Ganguli, MJ Schnitzer… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
The hypothalamus regulates innate social behaviors, including mating and aggression.
These behaviors can be evoked by optogenetic stimulation of specific neuronal …

Auxiliary tasks and exploration enable objectgoal navigation

J Ye, D Batra, A Das, E Wijmans - Proceedings of the IEEE …, 2021 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Abstract ObjectGoal Navigation (ObjectNav) is an embodied task wherein agents are to
navigate to an object instance in an unseen environment. Prior works have shown that end …

Encoding of female mating dynamics by a hypothalamic line attractor

M Liu, A Nair, N Coria, SW Linderman, DJ Anderson - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Females exhibit complex, dynamic behaviours during mating with variable sexual receptivity
depending on hormonal status,,–. However, how their brains encode the dynamics of mating …

Emergent behaviour and neural dynamics in artificial agents tracking odour plumes

SH Singh, F van Breugel, RPN Rao… - Nature machine …, 2023 - nature.com
Tracking an odour plume to locate its source under variable wind and plume statistics is a
complex task. Flying insects routinely accomplish such tracking, often over long distances, in …

[HTML][HTML] Deep networks for system identification: a survey

G Pillonetto, A Aravkin, D Gedon, L Ljung, AH Ribeiro… - Automatica, 2025 - Elsevier
Deep learning is a topic of considerable current interest. The availability of massive data
collections and powerful software resources has led to an impressive amount of results in …

Beyond exploding and vanishing gradients: analysing RNN training using attractors and smoothness

AH Ribeiro, K Tiels, LA Aguirre… - … conference on artificial …, 2020 - proceedings.mlr.press
The exploding and vanishing gradient problem has been the major conceptual principle
behind most architecture and training improvements in recurrent neural networks (RNNs) …

A line attractor encoding a persistent internal state requires neuropeptide signaling

G Mountoufaris, A Nair, B Yang, DW Kim, A Vinograd… - Cell, 2024 - cell.com
Internal states drive survival behaviors, but their neural implementation is poorly understood.
Recently, we identified a line attractor in the ventromedial hypothalamus (VMH) that …