提出可跨日重校准的神经活动建模方法,提升脑机接口长期可用性。
GRAFT: Gain-Recalibrated Adapters for Transformer-Based Neural Population Activity Modeling

- 分离时间动态与神经接口,支持灵活更新记录神经元
- 跨日任务仅需更新9.21%参数,性能仍达0.3749 co-bps以上
- 适用于长期脑机接口,尤其适合神经元变化频繁的场景
神经群体活动模型能从分桶尖峰中恢复丰富的时序结构,但其输入输出层常绑定固定神经元集合,限制了在长期脑机接口中的复用。本文提出GRAFT,一种基于Transformer的神经群体活动模型,将可复用的时间动态与可重校准的神经接口分离。神经接口控制记录神经元的接入与退出,辅助增益与位置机制支持变压器内的神经活动建模。在标准NLB'21协议下,GRAFT以0.3866 co-bps的集成性能创下新纪录。在基于NLB'21 MC Maze数据集系列构建的跨日协议中,仅更新9.21%参数即可实现从MC Maze到缩放版(Large/Medium/Small)的数据高效重校准,分别达到0.3749、0.3112和0.3152 co-bps,且目标日支持集受限。结果表明,该接口-主干分离设计同时支持强性能建模与高效跨日适应。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Neural population activity models can recover rich temporal structure from binned spikes, but their read-in and readout layers often remain tied to a fixed set of recorded neurons. This coupling limits reuse in long-term brain-computer interfaces, where recorded neuron identities, counts, and response statistics can change across days. We introduce GRAFT, a Transformer-based neural population activity model that separates reusable temporal dynamics from a recalibratable neuron interface. The neuron interface controls how recorded neurons enter and leave the shared backbone, and auxiliary gain and positional mechanisms support neural activity modeling inside the Transformer. On MC Maze under the standard NLB'21 protocol, GRAFT reaches 0.3866 co-bps as an ensemble, setting a new state of the art on the primary co-bps metric among public and reported NLB'21 results. In a cross-day protocol constructed from the NLB'21 MC Maze dataset series, GRAFT recalibrates from MC Maze to the scaled MC Maze datasets (Large/Medium/Small) by updating only 9.21% of parameters, reaching 0.3749, 0.3112, and 0.3152 co-bps with restricted target-day support sets. These results show that the same interface-backbone separation supports both strong Transformer-based neural population activity modeling and data-efficient cross-day recalibration.
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