用小鼠视觉皮层的结构功能数据,让神经网络学得更好更快。
Harnessing cortical geometry, wiring, and function as inductive biases for recurrent neural networks

- 基于皮层几何、连接和功能数据初始化权重并约束通信
- 在3项决策任务中,结构约束模型性能显著优于基线模型
- 适合对生物启发神经网络、脑科学与机器学习交叉感兴趣的读者
神经回路的连接与功能组织如何塑造递归计算,是神经科学与机器学习的核心问题。本文利用来自机器智能从皮层网络计划(MICrONS)的数据——涵盖小鼠视觉皮层多个区域的功能连接组资源,其中密集钙成像与同一动物的高分辨率电子显微镜重构数据共注册——构建了生物学基础的递归神经网络。通过近12,000个共注册兴奋性神经元的空间坐标、解剖连接关系及功能关联,我们初始化递归权重,并在学习过程中施加通信感知的空间约束。在三个认知决策任务中,受皮层结构与功能约束的网络始终优于基线模型与部分约束模型。功能权重初始化带来最大性能提升,真实空间嵌入则在多种条件下提供稳健增益。这些生物驱动的网络自发形成低熵、模块化且小世界结构,在仅允许正向递归权重时仍保持强性能。结果表明,皮层的几何、布线与功能结构可作为强大归纳偏置,引导递归网络更高效学习,并趋向生物计算的关键组织原则。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
How the wiring and functional organization of cortex shape recurrent computation remains a central question in both neuroscience and machine learning. Here, we leverage data released through the Machine Intelligence from Cortical Networks (MICrONS) program--a functional connectomics resource spanning multiple areas of mouse visual cortex, in which dense calcium imaging is co-registered with high-resolution electron microscopy reconstruction from the same animal--to build biologically grounded recurrent neural networks. Using neuronal spatial coordinates, anatomical connectivity, and function-derived relationships from nearly 12,000 coregistered excitatory neurons, we initialize recurrent weights and impose communication-aware spatial constraints during learning. Across three cognitive decision-making tasks, networks constrained by cortical structure and function consistently outperform baseline and partially constrained models. Functional weight initialization provides the largest gain, while real spatial embedding yields robust additional improvements across conditions. These biologically grounded networks also develop low-entropy, modular, and small-world organization, and retain strong performance even when recurrence is restricted to positive weights. Together, our results show that the machinery of cortex--its geometry, wiring, and functional structure--can be harnessed as a powerful inductive basis for building recurrent networks that learn more effectively while converging toward key organizational principles of biological computation.
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