Optimal Recurrent Network Topologies for Dynamical Systems Reconstruction

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Main Authors: Hemmer, Christoph Jürgen, Brenner, Manuel, Hess, Florian, Durstewitz, Daniel
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author Hemmer, Christoph Jürgen
Brenner, Manuel
Hess, Florian
Durstewitz, Daniel
author_facet Hemmer, Christoph Jürgen
Brenner, Manuel
Hess, Florian
Durstewitz, Daniel
contents In dynamical systems reconstruction (DSR) we seek to infer from time series measurements a generative model of the underlying dynamical process. This is a prime objective in any scientific discipline, where we are particularly interested in parsimonious models with a low parameter load. A common strategy here is parameter pruning, removing all parameters with small weights. However, here we find this strategy does not work for DSR, where even low magnitude parameters can contribute considerably to the system dynamics. On the other hand, it is well known that many natural systems which generate complex dynamics, like the brain or ecological networks, have a sparse topology with comparatively few links. Inspired by this, we show that geometric pruning, where in contrast to magnitude-based pruning weights with a low contribution to an attractor's geometrical structure are removed, indeed manages to reduce parameter load substantially without significantly hampering DSR quality. We further find that the networks resulting from geometric pruning have a specific type of topology, and that this topology, and not the magnitude of weights, is what is most crucial to performance. We provide an algorithm that automatically generates such topologies which can be used as priors for generative modeling of dynamical systems by RNNs, and compare it to other well studied topologies like small-world or scale-free networks.
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spellingShingle Optimal Recurrent Network Topologies for Dynamical Systems Reconstruction
Hemmer, Christoph Jürgen
Brenner, Manuel
Hess, Florian
Durstewitz, Daniel
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Dynamical Systems
Chaotic Dynamics
In dynamical systems reconstruction (DSR) we seek to infer from time series measurements a generative model of the underlying dynamical process. This is a prime objective in any scientific discipline, where we are particularly interested in parsimonious models with a low parameter load. A common strategy here is parameter pruning, removing all parameters with small weights. However, here we find this strategy does not work for DSR, where even low magnitude parameters can contribute considerably to the system dynamics. On the other hand, it is well known that many natural systems which generate complex dynamics, like the brain or ecological networks, have a sparse topology with comparatively few links. Inspired by this, we show that geometric pruning, where in contrast to magnitude-based pruning weights with a low contribution to an attractor's geometrical structure are removed, indeed manages to reduce parameter load substantially without significantly hampering DSR quality. We further find that the networks resulting from geometric pruning have a specific type of topology, and that this topology, and not the magnitude of weights, is what is most crucial to performance. We provide an algorithm that automatically generates such topologies which can be used as priors for generative modeling of dynamical systems by RNNs, and compare it to other well studied topologies like small-world or scale-free networks.
title Optimal Recurrent Network Topologies for Dynamical Systems Reconstruction
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Dynamical Systems
Chaotic Dynamics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.04934