Paper List
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MCP-AI: Protocol-Driven Intelligence Framework for Autonomous Reasoning in Healthcare
This paper addresses the critical gap in healthcare AI systems that lack contextual reasoning, long-term state management, and verifiable workflows by...
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Model Gateway: Model Management Platform for Model-Driven Drug Discovery
This paper addresses the critical bottleneck of fragmented, ad-hoc model management in pharmaceutical research by providing a centralized, scalable ML...
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Tree Thinking in the Genomic Era: Unifying Models Across Cells, Populations, and Species
This paper addresses the fragmentation of tree-based inference methods across biological scales by identifying shared algorithmic principles and stati...
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SSDLabeler: Realistic semi-synthetic data generation for multi-label artifact classification in EEG
This paper addresses the core challenge of training robust multi-label EEG artifact classifiers by overcoming the scarcity and limited diversity of ma...
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Decoding Selective Auditory Attention to Musical Elements in Ecologically Valid Music Listening
This paper addresses the core challenge of objectively quantifying listeners' selective attention to specific musical components (e.g., vocals, drums,...
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Physics-Guided Surrogate Modeling for Machine Learning–Driven DLD Design Optimization
This paper addresses the core bottleneck of translating microfluidic DLD devices from research prototypes to clinical applications by replacing weeks-...
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Mechanistic Interpretability of Antibody Language Models Using SAEs
This work addresses the core challenge of achieving both interpretability and controllable generation in domain-specific protein language models, spec...
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Fluctuating Environments Favor Extreme Dormancy Strategies and Penalize Intermediate Ones
This paper addresses the core challenge of determining how organisms should tune dormancy duration to match the temporal autocorrelation of their envi...
从部分测量中恢复稀疏神经连接:一种基于协方差的方法与格兰杰因果性精炼
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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IN SHORT: 通过跨多个实验会话累积协方差统计,实现从部分记录到完整神经连接性的重建。
核心创新
- Methodology Developed a covariance accumulation framework that reconstructs full connectivity matrices from partial observations across multiple recording sessions
- Methodology Introduced Granger-causality refinement via projected gradient descent to enforce biological constraints (sparsity, non-negativity, no autapses)
- Theory Discovered that linear approximation acts as implicit regularization, outperforming oracle estimators with known nonlinearity via Stein-Price identity characterization
主要结论
- 协方差估计器在N=30网络、T=1000时间步和66%测量密度下实现了中位数Frobenius误差0.053(比随机基线提升91%)
- 格兰杰因果性精炼在N=12网络中进一步降低误差6%(从0.100到0.094),同时实现了完美的边检测召回率(中位数=1.0)
- 最佳刺激水平关键取决于测量密度:在100%测量下,零刺激完全失败(误差>4.0),而适度刺激(σ≈0.5)可实现优异恢复(误差∼0.03)
摘要: 从非完整观测中推断神经回路的连接性是神经科学中的一个基本挑战。我们提出了一种基于协方差的方法,用于从多个记录会话中的稀疏、部分测量中估计循环神经网络的权重矩阵。通过在观察到不同神经元子集的会话中累积成对协方差估计,我们重建了完整的连接矩阵,而无需同时记录所有神经元。一个格兰杰因果性精炼步骤通过投影梯度下降强制执行生物学约束。通过对模拟小脑回路的合成网络进行系统实验,我们描述了一个基本的控制-估计权衡:刺激有助于可识别性但会破坏内在动力学,最佳水平取决于测量密度。我们发现“错误”的线性近似起到了隐式正则化的作用——在所有操作机制下都优于已知非线性的oracle估计器——并通过Stein-Price恒等式提供了精确的表征。