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# Stable fixed points of combinatorial threshold-linear networks.

@article{Curto2019StableFP,
title={Stable fixed points of combinatorial threshold-linear networks.},
author={Carina Curto and Jesse T. Geneson and Katherine Morrison},
journal={arXiv: Neurons and Cognition},
year={2019}
}
• Published 27 August 2019
• Mathematics
• arXiv: Neurons and Cognition
Combinatorial threshold-linear networks (CTLNs) are a special class of neural networks whose dynamics are tightly controlled by an underlying directed graph. In prior work, we showed that target-free cliques of the graph correspond to stable fixed points of the dynamics, and we conjectured that these are the only stable fixed points allowed. In this paper we prove that the conjecture holds in a variety of special cases, including for graphs with very strong inhibition and graphs of size \$n \leq…
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