arXiv:2604.04958q-bio.QMcs.AI2026-04中稿 · version

CalM用自监督学习建模钙成像数据中的神经群体动态,可通用预测与解码。

CalM: A Self-Supervised Foundation Model for Population Dynamics in Calcium Imaging Data

论文配图:CalM: A Self-Supervised Foundation Model for Population Dynamics in Calcium Imaging Data
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  • 通过离散化单神经元信号+双轴自回归变换器预训练
  • 在多动物多会话数据上预测准确率媲美专用模型
  • 表征具可解释性,适合需要泛化能力的神经分析任务

近期研究指出,大规模多动物建模能显著提升神经记录分析效果。然而,现有功能钙信号方法仍高度依赖特定任务,限制了在常见神经科学目标间的迁移能力。为此,我们提出 extbf{CalM},一种仅基于神经钙信号训练的自监督基础模型,可适应多种下游任务,包括预测与行为解码。核心贡献在于一个高性能分词器,将单神经元信号映射至共享离散词汇表,并采用双轴自回归变压器,建模神经元间与时间维度的依赖关系。我们在大规模多动物多会话数据集上评估 CalM,结果表明:预训练后,其在神经群体动态预测任务中表现媲美强基准;加入任务头后,进一步在行为解码任务上超越监督模型。此外,线性分析揭示了超越预测精度的可解释功能结构。综上,我们提出一种新颖有效的钙信号基础模型预训练范式,为功能性神经分析的可扩展预训练与广泛应用铺平道路。代码已开源于 https://github.com/TSuXinH/CalM。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Recent work suggests that large-scale, multi-animal modeling can significantly improve neural recording analysis. However, for functional calcium traces, existing approaches remain task-specific, limiting transfer across common neuroscience objectives. To address this challenge, we propose \textbf{CalM}, a self-supervised neural foundation model trained solely on neuronal calcium traces and adaptable to multiple downstream tasks, including forecasting and decoding. Our key contribution is a pretraining framework, composed of a high-performance tokenizer mapping single-neuron traces into a shared discrete vocabulary, and a dual-axis autoregressive transformer modeling dependencies along both the neural and the temporal axis. We evaluate CalM on a large-scale, multi-animal, multi-session dataset. On the neural population dynamics forecasting task, CalM achieves competitive performance against strong specialized baselines after pretraining. With a task-specific head, CalM further adapts to the behavior decoding task and achieves superior results compared with supervised decoding models. Moreover, linear analyses of CalM representations reveal interpretable functional structures beyond predictive accuracy. Taken together, we propose a novel and effective self-supervised pretraining paradigm for foundation models based on calcium traces, paving the way for scalable pretraining and broad applications in functional neural analysis. Code is released at https://github.com/TSuXinH/CalM.

钙成像自监督学习基础模型神经动力学

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