从尖峰时间快速重建神经元模型的多重解,突破生物物理建模瓶颈。
Fast reconstruction of degenerate populations of conductance-based neuron models from spike times
- 用深度学习将尖峰时间映射到可解释的动态输入导纳密度
- 在毫秒级内生成高维模型的多样解,准确复现放电与簇发放模式
- 适合神经动力学建模、计算神经科学及实验数据驱动研究者
从实验可获取的记录中推断导纳基神经元模型(CBMs)的生物物理参数,仍是计算神经科学的核心挑战。尖峰时间是最常见的数据,却难以揭示哪些离子通道导纳组合产生观测到的活动。这一逆问题因神经元退化性而加剧——多个不同的导纳组合可产生相似的放电模式。本文提出一种结合深度学习与动态输入导纳(DICs)的方法,将复杂的CBMs简化为三个可解释的反馈分量,调控兴奋性与放电模式。首先,通过神经网络将尖峰时间映射至阈值处的DIC密度,学习低维神经活动表示;随后,利用迭代补偿算法基于预测的DIC值生成退化型的CBM群体,确保与中间目标DIC一致,从而重现对应放电模式,即使在高维模型中亦然。该方法在两个模型上实现尖峰与簇发放模式的高精度重建,对噪声电流注入下产生的尖峰序列也具鲁棒性。在标准硬件上,毫秒级完成多样性退化解生成,支持仅从尖峰记录进行高效、可扩展的推断。本工作确立了DICs作为实验活动与机制模型间实用且可解释的桥梁,使直接从尖峰时间快速重构退化种群成为可能,为探究神经元如何利用导纳变异性实现可靠计算提供了强大工具。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Inferring the biophysical parameters of conductance-based models (CBMs) from experimentally accessible recordings remains a central challenge in computational neuroscience. Spike times are the most widely available data, yet they reveal little about which combinations of ion channel conductances generate the observed activity. This inverse problem is further complicated by neuronal degeneracy, where multiple distinct conductance sets yield similar spiking patterns. We introduce a method that addresses this challenge by combining deep learning with Dynamic Input Conductances (DICs), a theoretical framework that reduces complex CBMs to three interpretable feedback components governing excitability and firing patterns. Our approach first maps spike times to DIC densities at threshold using a neural network that learns a low-dimensional representation of neuronal activity. The predicted DIC values are then used to generate degenerate CBM populations via an iterative compensation algorithm, ensuring compatibility with the intermediate target DICs, and thereby reproducing the corresponding firing patterns, even in high-dimensional models. Applied to two models, this algorithmic pipeline reconstructs spiking and bursting regimes with high accuracy and robustness to variability, including spike trains generated under noisy current injection mimicking physiological stochasticity. It produces diverse degenerate populations within milliseconds on standard hardware, enabling scalable and efficient inference from spike recordings alone. Together, this work positions DICs as a practical and interpretable link between experimentally observed activity and mechanistic models. By enabling fast and scalable reconstruction of degenerate populations directly from spike times, our approach provides a powerful way to investigate how neurons exploit conductance variability to achieve reliable computation.
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