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Biologically grounded neural networks leverage mouse brain data

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Researchers have developed biologically grounded recurrent neural networks by leveraging data from the MICrONS program, which combines electron microscopy and calcium imaging of mouse visual cortex. These networks utilize neuronal spatial coordinates, anatomical connectivity, and function-derived relationships from nearly 12,000 neurons to initialize weights and impose spatial constraints during learning. The study found that networks incorporating cortical structure and function significantly outperformed baseline models across three cognitive decision-making tasks, with functional weight initialization providing the most substantial gains. AI

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Mo Shakiba, Rana Rokni, Mohammad Mohammadi, Nima Dehghani ·

    Harnessing cortical geometry, wiring, and function as inductive biases for recurrent neural networks

    arXiv:2606.14975v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: How the wiring and functional organization of cortex shape recurrent computation remains a central question in both neuroscience and machine learning. Here, we leverage data released through the Machine Intelligence from Cortical …

  2. arXiv cs.NE (Neural & Evolutionary) TIER_1 English(EN) · Nima Dehghani ·

    Harnessing cortical geometry, wiring, and function as inductive biases for recurrent neural networks

    How the wiring and functional organization of cortex shape recurrent computation remains a central question in both neuroscience and machine learning. Here, we leverage data released through the Machine Intelligence from Cortical Networks (MICrONS) program--a functional connectom…

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