用混合脉冲网络压缩脑信号,实现低功耗无线脑机接口。
Hybrid Spiking Neural Networks for Low-Power Intra-Cortical Brain-Machine Interfaces
- 先用时序卷积压缩数据,再用脉冲神经元处理并恢复序列长度。
- 在非人灵长类运动数据上达到高精度,同步减少90%以上突触操作。
- 适合追求高精度与低功耗的神经解码系统开发者。
皮层内脑机接口(iBMIs)有望显著改善截瘫患者的生活质量,但现有系统受限于硬件庞大和布线复杂,难以实现可扩展与便携。无线iBMIs虽有潜力,却面临数据速率瓶颈。为此,本文提出一种用于嵌入式神经解码的混合脉冲神经网络:先通过基于时序卷积的压缩模块降低数据量,再经递归处理,最后插值恢复原始序列长度。研究对比了门控循环单元(GRUs)、漏积分放电(LIF)神经元及脉冲门控单元(sGRUs)在准确率、模型体积和激活稀疏性上的表现。在‘非人灵长类多通道运动皮层电生理记录’数据集上训练,并采用NeuroBench框架评估,覆盖IEEE BioCAS神经解码挑战赛两个赛道。结果表明,该方法在预测灵长类伸手动作速度方面具有高精度,同时突触操作数显著低于现有基线模型。本工作展示了混合神经网络在提升无线iBMIs解码精度与可监测神经元数量方面的潜力,为更先进的神经假体技术铺路。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Intra-cortical brain-machine interfaces (iBMIs) have the potential to dramatically improve the lives of people with paraplegia by restoring their ability to perform daily activities. However, current iBMIs suffer from scalability and mobility limitations due to bulky hardware and wiring. Wireless iBMIs offer a solution but are constrained by a limited data rate. To overcome this challenge, we are investigating hybrid spiking neural networks for embedded neural decoding in wireless iBMIs. The networks consist of a temporal convolution-based compression followed by recurrent processing and a final interpolation back to the original sequence length. As recurrent units, we explore gated recurrent units (GRUs), leaky integrate-and-fire (LIF) neurons, and a combination of both - spiking GRUs (sGRUs) and analyze their differences in terms of accuracy, footprint, and activation sparsity. To that end, we train decoders on the "Nonhuman Primate Reaching with Multichannel Sensorimotor Cortex Electrophysiology" dataset and evaluate it using the NeuroBench framework, targeting both tracks of the IEEE BioCAS Grand Challenge on Neural Decoding. Our approach achieves high accuracy in predicting velocities of primate reaching movements from multichannel primary motor cortex recordings while maintaining a low number of synaptic operations, surpassing the current baseline models in the NeuroBench framework. This work highlights the potential of hybrid neural networks to facilitate wireless iBMIs with high decoding precision and a substantial increase in the number of monitored neurons, paving the way toward more advanced neuroprosthetic technologies.
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