Instruct: Identify the main and secondary category of Arxiv papers based on the titles and abstracts
Query: Chaos and reliability in balanced spiking networks with temporal drive   Biological information processing is often carried out by complex networks of
interconnected dynamical units. A basic question about such networks is that of
reliability: if the same signal is presented many times with the network in
different initial states, will the system entrain to the signal in a repeatable
way? Reliability is of particular interest in neuroscience, where large,
complex networks of excitatory and inhibitory cells are ubiquitous. These
networks are known to autonomously produce strongly chaotic dynamics - an
obvious threat to reliability. Here, we show that such chaos persists in the
presence of weak and strong stimuli, but that even in the presence of chaos,
intermittent periods of highly reliable spiking often coexist with unreliable
activity. We elucidate the local dynamical mechanisms involved in this
intermittent reliability, and investigate the relationship between this
phenomenon and certain time-dependent attractors arising from the dynamics. A
conclusion is that chaotic dynamics do not have to be an obstacle to precise
spike responses, a fact with implications for signal coding in large networks.

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The categories of this paper are: stat
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The categories of this paper are: mtrl-th
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The categories of this paper are: quant-ph
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The categories of this paper are: astro-ph
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The categories of this paper are: comp-gas
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The categories of this paper are: alg-geom
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The categories of this paper are: chao-dyn
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The categories of this paper are: adap-org
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The categories of this paper are: eess
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The categories of this paper are: nucl-th
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The categories of this paper are: funct-an
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The categories of this paper are: hep-th
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The categories of this paper are: math-ph
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The categories of this paper are: cond-mat
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The categories of this paper are: q-fin
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The categories of this paper are: dg-ga