Neuron Platonic Intrinsic Representation From Dynamics Using Contrastive Learning

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Autores principales: Wu, Wei, Liao, Can, Deng, Zizhen, Guo, Zhengrui, Wang, Jinzhuo
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author Wu, Wei
Liao, Can
Deng, Zizhen
Guo, Zhengrui
Wang, Jinzhuo
author_facet Wu, Wei
Liao, Can
Deng, Zizhen
Guo, Zhengrui
Wang, Jinzhuo
contents The Platonic Representation Hypothesis suggests a universal, modality-independent reality representation behind different data modalities. Inspired by this, we view each neuron as a system and detect its multi-segment activity data under various peripheral conditions. We assume there's a time-invariant representation for the same neuron, reflecting its intrinsic properties like molecular profiles, location, and morphology. The goal of obtaining these intrinsic neuronal representations has two criteria: (I) segments from the same neuron should have more similar representations than those from different neurons; (II) the representations must generalize well to out-of-domain data. To meet these, we propose the NeurPIR (Neuron Platonic Intrinsic Representation) framework. It uses contrastive learning, with segments from the same neuron as positive pairs and those from different neurons as negative pairs. In implementation, we use VICReg, which focuses on positive pairs and separates dissimilar samples via regularization. We tested our method on Izhikevich model-simulated neuronal population dynamics data. The results accurately identified neuron types based on preset hyperparameters. We also applied it to two real-world neuron dynamics datasets with neuron type annotations from spatial transcriptomics and neuron locations. Our model's learned representations accurately predicted neuron types and locations and were robust on out-of-domain data (from unseen animals). This shows the potential of our approach for understanding neuronal systems and future neuroscience research.
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spellingShingle Neuron Platonic Intrinsic Representation From Dynamics Using Contrastive Learning
Wu, Wei
Liao, Can
Deng, Zizhen
Guo, Zhengrui
Wang, Jinzhuo
Neurons and Cognition
Artificial Intelligence
Neural and Evolutionary Computing
The Platonic Representation Hypothesis suggests a universal, modality-independent reality representation behind different data modalities. Inspired by this, we view each neuron as a system and detect its multi-segment activity data under various peripheral conditions. We assume there's a time-invariant representation for the same neuron, reflecting its intrinsic properties like molecular profiles, location, and morphology. The goal of obtaining these intrinsic neuronal representations has two criteria: (I) segments from the same neuron should have more similar representations than those from different neurons; (II) the representations must generalize well to out-of-domain data. To meet these, we propose the NeurPIR (Neuron Platonic Intrinsic Representation) framework. It uses contrastive learning, with segments from the same neuron as positive pairs and those from different neurons as negative pairs. In implementation, we use VICReg, which focuses on positive pairs and separates dissimilar samples via regularization. We tested our method on Izhikevich model-simulated neuronal population dynamics data. The results accurately identified neuron types based on preset hyperparameters. We also applied it to two real-world neuron dynamics datasets with neuron type annotations from spatial transcriptomics and neuron locations. Our model's learned representations accurately predicted neuron types and locations and were robust on out-of-domain data (from unseen animals). This shows the potential of our approach for understanding neuronal systems and future neuroscience research.
title Neuron Platonic Intrinsic Representation From Dynamics Using Contrastive Learning
topic Neurons and Cognition
Artificial Intelligence
Neural and Evolutionary Computing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.10425