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ArticleNature methods2025

MARBLE: interpretable representations of neural population dynamics using geometric deep learning.

Adam Gosztolai, Robert L Peach, Alexis Arnaudon, Mauricio Barahona, Pierre Vandergheynst

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Article in Nature methods, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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5 authors.

Adam Gosztolai *Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria. adam.gosztolai@meduniwien.ac.at.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0699-5825
Robert L Peach *Department of Neurology, University Hospital Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany.
Alexis ArnaudonBlue Brain Project, EPFL, Campus Biotech, Geneva, Switzerland.
Mauricio BarahonaDepartment of Mathematics, Imperial College London, London, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1089-5675
Pierre VandergheynstSignal Processing Laboratory (LTS2), EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland.

Funding

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation) 424778381-TRR 295Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) LT000669/2020-CRCUK | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) EP/N014529/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The dynamics of neuron populations commonly evolve on low-dimensional manifolds. Thus, we need methods that learn the dynamical processes over neural manifolds to infer interpretable and consistent latent representations. We introduce a representation learning method, MARBLE, which decomposes on-manifold dynamics into local flow fields and maps them into a common latent space using unsupervised geometric deep learning. In simulated nonlinear dynamical systems, recurrent neural networks and experimental single-neuron recordings from primates and rodents, we discover emergent low-dimensional latent representations that parametrize high-dimensional neural dynamics during gain modulation, decision-making and changes in the internal state. These representations are consistent across neural networks and animals, enabling the robust comparison of cognitive computations. Extensive benchmarking demonstrates state-of-the-art within- and across-animal decoding accuracy of MARBLE compared to current representation learning approaches, with minimal user input. Our results suggest that a manifold structure provides a powerful inductive bias to develop decoding algorithms and assimilate data across experiments.

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Deep LearningModels, NeurologicalNeural Networks, ComputerNeuronsAlgorithmsAnimalsComputer SimulationNonlinear DynamicsRats

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PMCPMC11903309

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