| Autor: |
Wang JH; Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory School of Biological Sciences Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor, New York, USA., Tsin D; Princeton Neuroscience Institute Prineton University Princeton, New Jersey, USA., Engel TA; Princeton Neuroscience Institute Prineton University Princeton, New Jersey, USA. |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Zdroj: |
ArXiv [ArXiv] 2023 Dec 12. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Dec 12. |
| Abstrakt: |
Variational autoencoders (VAEs) have been used extensively to discover low-dimensional latent factors governing neural activity and animal behavior. However, without careful model selection, the uncovered latent factors may reflect noise in the data rather than true underlying features, rendering such representations unsuitable for scientific interpretation. Existing solutions to this problem involve introducing additional measured variables or data augmentations specific to a particular data type. We propose a VAE architecture that predicts the next point in time and show that it mitigates the learning of spurious features. In addition, we introduce a model selection metric based on smoothness over time in the latent space. We show that together these two constraints on VAEs to be smooth over time produce robust latent representations and faithfully recover latent factors on synthetic datasets. |
| Databáze: |
MEDLINE |
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