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Know Thyself by Knowing Others: Learning Neuron Identity from Population Context.

Vinam Arora¹, Divyansha Lachi¹, Ian J Knight¹

¹University of Pennsylvania.

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NuCLR, a new self-supervised framework, learns neuron representations from neural activity to identify individual neurons. This approach achieves state-of-the-art decoding for cell type and brain region, generalizing across animals.

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Area of Science:

Computational Neuroscience
Machine Learning for Neuroscience

Background:

Inferring neuron identity (cell type, connectivity, brain region) from neural activity is challenging.
General-purpose representations are needed to decode neuron-specific information.

Purpose of the Study:

Introduce NuCLR, a self-supervised framework for learning neuron representations.
Enable differentiation of individual neurons from their activity patterns.

Main Methods:

NuCLR uses contrastive learning on neuron activity from different times/stimuli.
A spatiotemporal transformer integrates population context permutation-equivariantly.
Evaluated on electrophysiology and calcium imaging datasets.

Main Results:

Achieved state-of-the-art cell type and brain region decoding.
Demonstrated strong zero-shot generalization to unseen animals.
Showed performance improves with more pretraining animals and is label-efficient.

Conclusions:

Large, diverse neural datasets enable models to learn generalizable neuron identity representations.
NuCLR advances neuron-level representation learning and decoding capabilities.
The framework offers label-efficient learning for neuroscience data.