An Extensive Study of Two-Node McCulloch-Pitts Networks

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Main Authors: Li, Wentian, Provata, Astero, MacCarthy, Thomas
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author Li, Wentian
Provata, Astero
MacCarthy, Thomas
author_facet Li, Wentian
Provata, Astero
MacCarthy, Thomas
contents Networks with two nodes are previously grouped into either two classes (mutually interactive, master-slave) or five classes (mutualism, competition, predator-prey, commensalism, amensalism). By allowing self-loops, the number of signed regulatory graphs increases to 39. We provide a complete summary of dynamical behaviors of the 39 two-node McCulloch-Pitts models when the link weights are constrained to three values [$-1$,0,$+1$] and Boolean node variables. Depending on whether the Boolean values are [$-1,1$] (bipolar) or [0,1] (binary), we show that the dynamics could also be different with the same signed regulatory graphs. We demonstrate that slight variations in the McCulloch-Pitts model (called variants) may lead to fundamentally different dynamics. We study the full model space and three kinds of robustness or stability: a) of a rule against parameter change on its overall dynamics, b) for a given state against parameter change on its final state, and c) against an initial state change on its final state. All these stability properties are loosely related to a model's limiting dynamics, with the fixed-point rules to be more stable in the first two types of robustness, but less stable in the third robustness type. These analyses pave the way towards a better understanding of a minimum complex system.
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spellingShingle An Extensive Study of Two-Node McCulloch-Pitts Networks
Li, Wentian
Provata, Astero
MacCarthy, Thomas
Social and Information Networks
Physics and Society
Networks with two nodes are previously grouped into either two classes (mutually interactive, master-slave) or five classes (mutualism, competition, predator-prey, commensalism, amensalism). By allowing self-loops, the number of signed regulatory graphs increases to 39. We provide a complete summary of dynamical behaviors of the 39 two-node McCulloch-Pitts models when the link weights are constrained to three values [$-1$,0,$+1$] and Boolean node variables. Depending on whether the Boolean values are [$-1,1$] (bipolar) or [0,1] (binary), we show that the dynamics could also be different with the same signed regulatory graphs. We demonstrate that slight variations in the McCulloch-Pitts model (called variants) may lead to fundamentally different dynamics. We study the full model space and three kinds of robustness or stability: a) of a rule against parameter change on its overall dynamics, b) for a given state against parameter change on its final state, and c) against an initial state change on its final state. All these stability properties are loosely related to a model's limiting dynamics, with the fixed-point rules to be more stable in the first two types of robustness, but less stable in the third robustness type. These analyses pave the way towards a better understanding of a minimum complex system.
title An Extensive Study of Two-Node McCulloch-Pitts Networks
topic Social and Information Networks
Physics and Society
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.00254