Computation-Aware Kalman Filtering with Model Selection for Neural Dynamics

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Autores principales: Huml, JR, Wenger, Jonathan, Cunningham, John P.
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author Huml, JR
Wenger, Jonathan
Cunningham, John P.
author_facet Huml, JR
Wenger, Jonathan
Cunningham, John P.
contents Due to their explicit priors and ability to model uncertainty, Bayesian methods have played a major role in dynamical latent variable modeling of single-cell neural recordings. However, modern-sized datasets have made overparameterized deep networks the preferred methods of choice due to their predictive power and favorable computational scaling. While many posterior approximations exist, all incur approximation errors. Recent work accounts for this error in the form of computational uncertainty but comes at the cost of quadratic complexity and assumes fixed model hyperparameters. Here we extend this development to model selection, including a novel training loss and optimization scheme, which yields tractable inference in large state-spaces. We introduce a framework, the Computation-Aware State-Space Model (CASSM), specifically designed for the scale-imbalanced regime, where the number of trials is significantly lower than the number of recorded neurons. In this regime, for both synthetic and real data, we show that our method is competitive with data-hungry deep networks, with significantly improved uncertainty calibration over previous attempts to scale Bayesian methods. Our experiments provide a roadmap to neuroscience researchers in choosing from a host of potential dynamical latent variable models given key dataset properties and constraints.
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spellingShingle Computation-Aware Kalman Filtering with Model Selection for Neural Dynamics
Huml, JR
Wenger, Jonathan
Cunningham, John P.
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Due to their explicit priors and ability to model uncertainty, Bayesian methods have played a major role in dynamical latent variable modeling of single-cell neural recordings. However, modern-sized datasets have made overparameterized deep networks the preferred methods of choice due to their predictive power and favorable computational scaling. While many posterior approximations exist, all incur approximation errors. Recent work accounts for this error in the form of computational uncertainty but comes at the cost of quadratic complexity and assumes fixed model hyperparameters. Here we extend this development to model selection, including a novel training loss and optimization scheme, which yields tractable inference in large state-spaces. We introduce a framework, the Computation-Aware State-Space Model (CASSM), specifically designed for the scale-imbalanced regime, where the number of trials is significantly lower than the number of recorded neurons. In this regime, for both synthetic and real data, we show that our method is competitive with data-hungry deep networks, with significantly improved uncertainty calibration over previous attempts to scale Bayesian methods. Our experiments provide a roadmap to neuroscience researchers in choosing from a host of potential dynamical latent variable models given key dataset properties and constraints.
title Computation-Aware Kalman Filtering with Model Selection for Neural Dynamics
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.01468