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¹Department of Systems Design Engineering and Centre for Theoretical Neuroscience, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1 bptripp@uwaterloo.ca.

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This study develops a cortex-like deep convolutional neural network (CNN) architecture by optimizing hyperparameters against neural data. The resulting biologically realistic CNN offers a framework for comparing model and brain representations.

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Area of Science:

Computational neuroscience
Artificial intelligence
Neuroscience

Background:

Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) share similarities with primate visual cortex but also exhibit significant differences.
Reconciling these differences is crucial for developing more biologically plausible AI models.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop a novel cortex-like CNN architecture.
To ensure the architecture's consistency with empirical neural data.
To create a framework for direct comparison between artificial and biological neural networks.

Main Methods:

A specialized loss function was designed to quantify CNN architecture alignment with neural data (tract tracing, cell reconstruction, electrophysiology).
Hyperparameter optimization was employed to minimize this loss function.
Heuristics were developed for organizing network units into convolutional-layer grids.

Main Results:

Optimized hyperparameters demonstrated consistency with neural data.
The developed cortex-like CNN architecture features distinct characteristics, including longer skip connections, larger kernels and strides, and unique connection sparsity.
Crucially, each layer in the cortex-like network corresponds directly to specific cortical neuron populations.

Conclusions:

The developed cortex-like CNN architecture shows improved biological realism compared to typical CNNs.
The one-to-one correspondence between network layers and cortical neuron populations enables precise future comparisons of model and brain representations.
This work advances the development of more biologically realistic deep neural networks.