Why do networks have inhibitory/negative connections?

Qingyang Wang, Michael A. Powell, Ali Geisa, Eric Bridgeford, Carey E. Priebe, Joshua T. Vogelstein. Why do networks have inhibitory/negative connections?. In IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision, ICCV 2023, Paris, France, October 1-6, 2023. pages 22494-22502, IEEE, 2023. [doi]

@inproceedings{WangPGBPV23,
  title = {Why do networks have inhibitory/negative connections?},
  author = {Qingyang Wang and Michael A. Powell and Ali Geisa and Eric Bridgeford and Carey E. Priebe and Joshua T. Vogelstein},
  year = {2023},
  doi = {10.1109/ICCV51070.2023.02061},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCV51070.2023.02061},
  researchr = {https://researchr.org/publication/WangPGBPV23},
  cites = {0},
  citedby = {0},
  pages = {22494-22502},
  booktitle = {IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision, ICCV 2023, Paris, France, October 1-6, 2023},
  publisher = {IEEE},
  isbn = {979-8-3503-0718-4},
}