On De-Individuated Neurons: Continuous Symmetries Enable Dynamic Topologies

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2602.23405v1
• Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2026 12:47:14 GMT
• Title: On De-Individuated Neurons: Continuous Symmetries Enable Dynamic Topologies
• Authors: George Bird,
• Abstract summary: This paper introduces a novel methodology for computation by leveraging a new symmetry-principled class of primitives, isotropic activation functions.<n>It enables real-time neuronal growth and shrinkage of the architectures in response to task demand.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: This paper introduces a novel methodology for dynamic networks by leveraging a new symmetry-principled class of primitives, isotropic activation functions. This approach enables real-time neuronal growth and shrinkage of the architectures in response to task demand. This is made possible by network structural changes that are invariant under symmetry reparameterisations, leaving the computation identical under neurogenesis and well approximated under neurodegeneration. This is undertaken by leveraging the isotropic primitives' property of basis independence, resulting in the loss of the individuated neurons implicit in the elementwise functional form. Isotropy thereby allows a freedom in the basis to which layers are decomposed and interpreted as individual artificial neurons. This enables a layer-wise diagonalisation procedure, in which typical interconnected layers, such as dense layers, convolutional kernels, and others, can be reexpressed so that neurons have one-to-one, ordered connectivity within alternating layers. This indicates which one-to-one neuron-to-neuron communications are strongly impactful on overall functionality and which are not. Inconsequential neurons can thus be removed (neurodegeneration), and new inactive scaffold neurons added (neurogenesis) whilst remaining analytically invariant in function. A new tunable model parameter, intrinsic length, is also introduced to ensure this analytical invariance. This approach mathematically equates connectivity pruning with neurodegeneration. The diagonalisation also offers new possibilities for mechanistic interpretability into isotropic networks, and it is demonstrated that isotropic dense networks can asymptotically reach a sparsity factor of 50% whilst retaining exact network functionality. Finally, the construction is generalised, demonstrating a nested functional class for this form of isotropic primitive architectures.

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