Wang, Shuqi;
Schmutz, Valentin;
Bellec, Guillaume;
Gerstner, Wulfram;
(2022)
Mesoscopic modeling of hidden spiking neurons.
In: Koyejo, Sanmi and Mohamed, Shakir and Agarwal, Alekh and Belgrave, Danielle and Cho, Kyunghyun and Oh, Alice, (eds.)
Proceedings of the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 35 (NeurIPS 2022).
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Abstract
Can we use spiking neural networks (SNN) as generative models of multi-neuronal recordings, while taking into account that most neurons are unobserved? Modeling the unobserved neurons with large pools of hidden spiking neurons leads to severely underconstrained problems that are hard to tackle with maximum likelihood estimation. In this work, we use coarse-graining and mean-field approximations to derive a bottom-up, neuronally-grounded latent variable model (neuLVM), where the activity of the unobserved neurons is reduced to a low-dimensional mesoscopic description. In contrast to previous latent variable models, neuLVM can be explicitly mapped to a recurrent, multi-population SNN, giving it a transparent biological interpretation. We show, on synthetic spike trains, that a few observed neurons are sufficient for neuLVM to perform efficient model inversion of large SNNs, in the sense that it can recover connectivity parameters, infer single-trial latent population activity, reproduce ongoing metastable dynamics, and generalize when subjected to perturbations mimicking optogenetic stimulation.
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