联合建模多条件神经放电数据,提升低维表示的准确性和可解释性。
Learning Coupled Subspaces for Multi-Condition Spike Data
- 构建贝叶斯模型,同步学习不同实验条件下神经活动的共享低维空间。
- 在真实与合成数据上,相比现有方法显著提升轨迹拟合精度。
- 支持主动学习,可智能推荐实验条件,优化实际研究中的数据采集效率。
在神经科学中,大量研究通过多种感官或行为实验获取高维尖峰放电数据。分析此类高维数据是极具挑战性的统计问题。为此,高斯过程因子分析(GPFA)作为一类潜变量模型被广泛用于单一实验条件下的数据处理,能够提取平滑的低维潜变量轨迹来概括高维尖峰数据。然而,标准GPFA对每种实验条件独立推断潜变量轨迹,未考虑潜变量在条件空间中的变化规律,限制了表示的准确性与可解释性。为解决此问题,我们提出耦合子空间高斯过程因子分析(CS-GPFA),一种贝叶斯模型,能联合学习跨条件的潜变量表示,刻画神经活动随条件的变化。在此基础上,我们进一步开发了一种主动学习算法,用于自适应选择最优实验条件。在合成及真实神经数据集上的实验表明,CS-GPFA性能优于现有方法。此外,主动学习结果表明,该方法可高效指导实际实验设计。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
In neuroscience, numerous studies conduct sensory or behavioral experiments under multiple conditions to acquire neural responses in the form of high-dimensional spike train datasets. Analyzing high-dimensional spike data is a challenging statistical problem. To this end, Gaussian process factor analysis (GPFA), a popular class of latent variable models, has been proposed for data collected under a single experimental condition. GPFA extracts smooth, low-dimensional latent trajectories that summarize highdimensional spike datasets. However, standard GPFA infers these trajectories independently for each experimental condition, not accounting for how the underlying activity varies across the condition space. This poses limitations on both accuracy and the interpretability of the latent representation. To address these limitations, we propose Coupled Subspaces GPFA (CS-GPFA), a Bayesian model that jointly learns latent representations, characterizing how the neural activity varies over the condition space. Building on this, we further develop an active-learning algorithm for adaptively selecting conditions. Experiments on both synthetic and real neural datasets demonstrate that CS-GPFA achieves superior performance compared to existing approaches. Moreover, our active learning results show that CS-GPFA can efficiently guide experiment design in practical settings.
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