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Decoding Cortical Microcircuits: A Generative Model for Latent Space Exploration and Controlled Synthesis

URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11062v1
Date: Thu, 29 May 2025 16:39:31 GMT
Title: Decoding Cortical Microcircuits: A Generative Model for Latent Space Exploration and Controlled Synthesis
Authors: Xingyu Liu, Yubin Li, Guozhang Chen,
Abstract summary: A central idea in understanding brains and building artificial intelligence is that structure determines function.<n>Yet, how the brain's complex structure arises from a limited set of genetic instructions remains a key question.<n>This work offers a new way to investigate the design principles of neural circuits and explore how structure gives rise to function.
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Abstract: A central idea in understanding brains and building artificial intelligence is that structure determines function. Yet, how the brain's complex structure arises from a limited set of genetic instructions remains a key question. The ultra high-dimensional detail of neural connections vastly exceeds the information storage capacity of genes, suggesting a compact, low-dimensional blueprint must guide brain development. Our motivation is to uncover this blueprint. We introduce a generative model, to learn this underlying representation from detailed connectivity maps of mouse cortical microcircuits. Our model successfully captures the essential structural information of these circuits in a compressed latent space. We found that specific, interpretable directions within this space directly relate to understandable network properties. Building on this, we demonstrate a novel method to controllably generate new, synthetic microcircuits with desired structural features by navigating this latent space. This work offers a new way to investigate the design principles of neural circuits and explore how structure gives rise to function, potentially informing the development of more advanced artificial neural networks.

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