Figure 7. Fixed points in the absence of exploration for different topological ensembles.

(a) Fraction of networks within an ensemble which relaxed to a fixed point under the nonlinear dynamics of equation (1), with fixed connections, no constraint and no feedback. Topological ensembles which exhibited higher success in exploratory adaptation in Fig. 2b, relaxed to fixed points in a larger fraction of simulations. (b) Distribution of relaxation times to fixed points for two of the ensembles. Note the shorter typical timescale for the SF-Exp ensemble (the more successfully adapting ensemble). N=1,000, g₀=10. Dergree distribution parameters: SF, (a=1, γ=2.4); Binom, ; Exp, ().