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Area of Science:

  • Computational Neuroscience
  • Machine Learning
  • Systems Neuroscience

Background:

  • Neural circuits display heterogeneous responses, suggesting a balance between disorder and structure.
  • Understanding the interplay between random and learned connectivity is crucial for deciphering neural computations.
  • Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) are models for neural circuits, but exploring their solution space is challenging.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how the degree of recurrent weight restructuring by learning affects neural population dynamics and representations.
  • To develop a theoretical framework for analyzing RNNs with varying levels of learned structure.
  • To compare model predictions with neural recordings from a motor task.

Main Methods:

  • Introduced a control parameter interpolating between random "reservoir" connectivity and learned, task-relevant connectivity in RNNs.
  • Derived a dynamical mean-field theory to analyze the resulting population dynamics and single-neuron statistics.
  • Applied the framework to an RNN trained to reproduce macaque motor cortex activity during a reaching task.

Main Results:

  • Varying the restructuring parameter generated a family of task-compatible RNNs with interpretable differences in dynamics.
  • Learned restructuring shifted single-neuron input distributions from Gaussian to non-Gaussian, task-dependent forms.
  • In nonlinear networks, restructuring induced a phase transition from chaotic to ordered, temporally generalizing dynamics.
  • Optimal matching with macaque motor cortex data required only minimal restructuring, indicating coexisting random and learned structure.

Conclusions:

  • Large-scale neural circuits likely contain a mixture of random and structured recurrent connectivity.
  • The degree of learned structure can be tuned to generate specific representational and dynamical properties.
  • This framework provides a way to interpret neural data and explore the space of RNN solutions.