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Diffusion, localization and dispersion relations on ``small-world'' lattices
The spectral properties of the Laplacian operator on ``small-world''
lattices, that is mixtures of unidimensional chains and random graphs
structures are investigated numerically and analytically. A transfer matrix
formalism including a self-consistent potential a la Edwards is introduced. In
the extended region of the spectrum, an effective medium calculation provides
the density of states and pseudo relations of dispersion for the eigenmodes in
close agreement with the simulations. Localization effects, which are due to
connectivity fluctuations of the sites are shown to be quantitatively described
by the single defect approximation recently introduced for random graphs.Comment: 17 revtex pages, 16 eps figures + 2 table
Emergence of Compositional Representations in Restricted Boltzmann Machines
Extracting automatically the complex set of features composing real
high-dimensional data is crucial for achieving high performance in
machine--learning tasks. Restricted Boltzmann Machines (RBM) are empirically
known to be efficient for this purpose, and to be able to generate distributed
and graded representations of the data. We characterize the structural
conditions (sparsity of the weights, low effective temperature, nonlinearities
in the activation functions of hidden units, and adaptation of fields
maintaining the activity in the visible layer) allowing RBM to operate in such
a compositional phase. Evidence is provided by the replica analysis of an
adequate statistical ensemble of random RBMs and by RBM trained on the
handwritten digits dataset MNIST.Comment: Supplementary material available at the authors' webpag
Fast Inference of Interactions in Assemblies of Stochastic Integrate-and-Fire Neurons from Spike Recordings
We present two Bayesian procedures to infer the interactions and external
currents in an assembly of stochastic integrate-and-fire neurons from the
recording of their spiking activity. The first procedure is based on the exact
calculation of the most likely time courses of the neuron membrane potentials
conditioned by the recorded spikes, and is exact for a vanishing noise variance
and for an instantaneous synaptic integration. The second procedure takes into
account the presence of fluctuations around the most likely time courses of the
potentials, and can deal with moderate noise levels. The running time of both
procedures is proportional to the number S of spikes multiplied by the squared
number N of neurons. The algorithms are validated on synthetic data generated
by networks with known couplings and currents. We also reanalyze previously
published recordings of the activity of the salamander retina (including from
32 to 40 neurons, and from 65,000 to 170,000 spikes). We study the dependence
of the inferred interactions on the membrane leaking time; the differences and
similarities with the classical cross-correlation analysis are discussed.Comment: Accepted for publication in J. Comput. Neurosci. (dec 2010
The Entropy of the K-Satisfiability Problem
The threshold behaviour of the K-Satisfiability problem is studied in the
framework of the statistical mechanics of random diluted systems. We find that
at the transition the entropy is finite and hence that the transition itself is
due to the abrupt appearance of logical contradictions in all solutions and not
to the progressive decreasing of the number of these solutions down to zero. A
physical interpretation is given for the different cases , and .Comment: revtex, 11 pages + 1 figur
Weight Space Structure and Internal Representations: a Direct Approach to Learning and Generalization in Multilayer Neural Network
We analytically derive the geometrical structure of the weight space in
multilayer neural networks (MLN), in terms of the volumes of couplings
associated to the internal representations of the training set. Focusing on the
parity and committee machines, we deduce their learning and generalization
capabilities both reinterpreting some known properties and finding new exact
results. The relationship between our approach and information theory as well
as the Mitchison--Durbin calculation is established. Our results are exact in
the limit of a large number of hidden units, showing that MLN are a class of
exactly solvable models with a simple interpretation of replica symmetry
breaking.Comment: 12 pages, 1 compressed ps figure (uufile), RevTeX fil
Theoretical study of collective modes in DNA at ambient temperature
The instantaneous normal modes corresponding to base pair vibrations (radial
modes) and twist angle fluctuations (angular modes) of a DNA molecule model at
ambient temperature are theoretically investigated. Due to thermal disorder,
normal modes are not plane waves with a single wave number q but have a finite
and frequency dependent damping width. The density of modes rho(nu), the
average dispersion relation nu(q) as well as the coherence length xi(nu) are
analytically calculated. The Gibbs averaged resolvent is computed using a
replicated transfer matrix formalism and variational wave functions for the
ground and first excited state. Our results for the density of modes are
compared to Raman spectroscopy measurements of the collective modes for DNA in
solution and show a good agreement with experimental data in the low frequency
regime nu < 150 cm^{-1}. Radial modes extend over frequencies ranging from 50
cm^{-1} to 110 cm^{-1}. Angular modes, related to helical axis vibrations are
limited to nu < 25 cm^{-1}. Normal modes are highly disordered and coherent
over a few base pairs only (xi < 2 nm) in good agreement with neutron
scattering experiments.Comment: 20 pages + 13 ps figure
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