Effects of hidden nodes on network structure inference

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/48/35/355002MaRDI QIDQ3447835zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Hai-Ping Huang

Publication date 28 October 2015

Published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1506.00358

zbMATH Keywords

inference methodsinverse problemsspin glass

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Neural nets applied to problems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C32) Statistical mechanics of random media, disordered materials (including liquid crystals and spin glasses) (82D30) Neural networks for/in biological studies, artificial life and related topics (92B20)

Abstract: Effects of hidden nodes on inference quality of observed network structure are explored based on a disordered Ising model with hidden nodes. We first study analytically small systems consisting of a few nodes, and find that the magnitude of the effective coupling grows as the coupling strength from the hidden common input nodes increases, while the field strength of the input node has opposite effects. Insights gained from analytic results of small systems are confirmed in numerical simulations of large systems. We also find that the inference quality deteriorates as the number of hidden nodes increases. Furthermore, increasing field variance of hidden nodes improves the inference quality of the effective couplings, but worsens the quality for the effective fields. In addition, attenuated coupling strengths involved in at least one hidden node lead to high quality of coupling inference.

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