arXiv:2506.14957q-bio.NCcs.LG2025-06NeurIPS被引 8

POCO模型实现跨会话神经活动精准预测,支持多物种通用建模。

POCO: Scalable Neural Forecasting through Population Conditioning

  • 用单神经元预报器+群体编码器联合建模,兼顾个体与整体动态
  • 在5个钙成像数据集上达细胞分辨率最优预测精度
  • 无需解剖标签即可学习出脑区结构,适合跨物种研究

预测未来神经活动是建模脑动力学的核心挑战,应用涵盖科学探索到闭环神经技术。尽管近期群体活动模型强调可解释性与行为解码,跨会话、自发记录下的神经预测仍研究不足。我们提出POCO,一种统一的预测模型,结合轻量级单变量预报器与群体级编码器,捕捉神经元特异性和全脑动态。在包含斑马鱼、小鼠和秀丽隐杆线虫的五个钙成像数据集上训练,POCO在自发行为中实现细胞分辨率的最先进预测精度。预训练后,仅需少量微调即可快速适应新记录。值得注意的是,其学习到的单元嵌入能无监督恢复生物有意义的结构(如脑区聚类),无需任何解剖标签。全面分析揭示上下文长度、会话多样性及预处理对性能的关键影响。这些结果使POCO成为可扩展、可适配的跨会话神经预测方法,并为未来模型设计提供实用洞见。通过实现跨个体与物种的准确、泛化性神经动力学建模,POCO为自适应神经技术和大规模神经基础模型铺平道路。代码开源:https://github.com/yuvenduan/POCO。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Predicting future neural activity is a core challenge in modeling brain dynamics, with applications ranging from scientific investigation to closed-loop neurotechnology. While recent models of population activity emphasize interpretability and behavioral decoding, neural forecasting-particularly across multi-session, spontaneous recordings-remains underexplored. We introduce POCO, a unified forecasting model that combines a lightweight univariate forecaster with a population-level encoder to capture both neuron-specific and brain-wide dynamics. Trained across five calcium imaging datasets spanning zebrafish, mice, and C. elegans, POCO achieves state-of-the-art accuracy at cellular resolution in spontaneous behaviors. After pre-training, POCO rapidly adapts to new recordings with minimal fine-tuning. Notably, POCO's learned unit embeddings recover biologically meaningful structure-such as brain region clustering-without any anatomical labels. Our comprehensive analysis reveals several key factors influencing performance, including context length, session diversity, and preprocessing. Together, these results position POCO as a scalable and adaptable approach for cross-session neural forecasting and offer actionable insights for future model design. By enabling accurate, generalizable forecasting models of neural dynamics across individuals and species, POCO lays the groundwork for adaptive neurotechnologies and large-scale efforts for neural foundation models. Code is available at https://github.com/yuvenduan/POCO.

神经预测跨物种钙成像可迁移

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