BrainDyn: A Sheaf Neural ODE for Generative Brain Dynamics

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2605.19324v1
• Date: Tue, 19 May 2026 04:03:01 GMT
• Title: BrainDyn: A Sheaf Neural ODE for Generative Brain Dynamics
• Abstract summary: We introduce BrainDyn, a sheaf neural ordinary differential equation (neural ODE) model for continuous-time dynamics on structured brain graphs.<n>BrainDyn encodes the recent activity history of each brain region using a long short-term memory (LSTM) model.<n>The resulting representations support downstream tasks including in silico perturbation prediction.
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• Abstract: Efficient neural network models that generate brain-like dynamic activity can be a valuable resource for generating synthetic data, analyzing differences in brain transients under conditions such as testing perturbation activity or inferring the underlying generative dynamics. However, large language models (LLMs) or standard recurrent neural networks (RNNs) ignore the anatomical organization and therefore do not produce components that align with brain regions. On the other hand, graph-based networks often have very simple message passing rules that are not sufficiently expressive for brain-like dynamics. To address this, we introduce BrainDyn, a sheaf neural ordinary differential equation (neural ODE) model for continuous-time dynamics on structured brain graphs. BrainDyn encodes the recent activity history of each brain region using a long short-term memory (LSTM) model over a sliding temporal window to produce hidden states, or stalks, that are projected through learnable restriction maps into edge-specific shared spaces. Discrepancies between neighboring nodes in these shared spaces are characterized by a sheaf Laplacian that can facilitate message passing between neuronal units. The output of these messages is then fed to a neural ODE that governs the continuous-time evolution of neuronal activity. We evaluated BrainDyn on resting-state fMRI (PNC dataset), scalp EEG with focal epilepsy (TUSZ dataset), and simulated activity from the NEST spiking network simulator. BrainDyn achieves strong forecasting ability across modalities, and the resulting representations support downstream tasks including in silico perturbation prediction.

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