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Publications (24)

math.OC2011

Analog Sparse Approximation with Applications to Compressed Sensing

Adam S. Charles, Pierre Garrigues, Christopher J. Rozell

Recent research has shown that performance in signal processing tasks can often be significantly improved by using signal models based on sparse representations, where a signal is…

stat.ML2024

Probabilistic Decomposed Linear Dynamical Systems for Robust Discovery of Latent Neural Dynamics

Yenho Chen, Noga Mudrik, Kyle A. Johnsen +3

Time-varying linear state-space models are powerful tools for obtaining mathematically interpretable representations of neural signals. For example, switching and decomposed models…

eess.SP2026

Stable Filtering for Efficient Dimensionality Reduction of Streaming Manifold Data

Nicholas P. Bertrand, Eva Yezerets, Han Lun Yap +2

Many areas in science and engineering now have access to technologies that enable the rapid collection of overwhelming data volumes. While these datasets are vital for understandin…

q-bio.NC2025

Data mining the functional architecture of the brain's circuitry

Adam S. Charles

The brain is a highly complex organ consisting of a myriad of subsystems that flexibly interact and adapt over time and context to enable perception, cognition, and behavior. Under…

q-bio.NC2025

CREIMBO: Cross-Regional Ensemble Interactions in Multi-view Brain Observations

Noga Mudrik, Ryan Ly, Oliver Ruebel +1

Modern recordings of neural activity provide diverse observations of neurons across brain areas, conditions, and subjects; presenting an exciting opportunity to reveal the fundamen…

stat.ML2024

SiBBlInGS: Similarity-driven Building-Block Inference using Graphs across States

Noga Mudrik, Gal Mishne, Adam S. Charles

Time series data across scientific domains are often collected under distinct states (e.g., tasks), wherein latent processes (e.g., biological factors) create complex inter- and in…

q-bio.NC2026

Behavior-dLDS: A decomposed linear dynamical systems model for neural activity partially constrained by behavior

Eva Yezerets, En Yang, Misha B. Ahrens +1

Brain-wide recordings of large-scale networks of neurons now provide an unprecedented view into how the brain drives behavior. However, brain activity contains both information dir…

cs.LG2026

Multi-Integration of Labels across Categories for Component Identification (MILCCI)

Noga Mudrik, Yuxi Chen, Gal Mishne +1

Many fields collect large-scale temporal data through repeated measurements (trials), where each trial is labeled with a set of metadata variables spanning several categories. For…

cs.LG2019

Visualizing the PHATE of Neural Networks

Scott Gigante, Adam S. Charles, Smita Krishnaswamy +1

Understanding why and how certain neural networks outperform others is key to guiding future development of network architectures and optimization methods. To this end, we introduc…

cs.IT2015

Short Term Memory Capacity in Networks via the Restricted Isometry Property

Adam S. Charles, Han Lun Yap, Christopher J. Rozell

Cortical networks are hypothesized to rely on transient network activity to support short term memory (STM). In this paper we study the capacity of randomly connected recurrent lin…

stat.ML2023

Decomposed Linear Dynamical Systems (dLDS) for learning the latent components of neural dynamics

Noga Mudrik, Yenho Chen, Eva Yezerets +2

Learning interpretable representations of neural dynamics at a population level is a crucial first step to understanding how observed neural activity relates to perception and beha…

eess.IV2025

Fast Two-photon Microscopy by Neuroimaging with Oblong Random Acquisition (NORA)

Esther Whang, Skyler Thomas, Ji Yi +1

Advances in neural imaging have enabled neuroscientists to study how large neural populations conspire to produce perception, behavior and cognition. Despite many advances in optic…

cs.CL2022

Multi-Lingual DALL-E Storytime

Noga Mudrik, Adam S. Charles

While recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) language models demonstrate cutting-edge performance when working with English texts, equivalent models do not exist in ot…

stat.ML2018

Interpreting Deep Learning: The Machine Learning Rorschach Test?

Adam S. Charles

Theoretical understanding of deep learning is one of the most important tasks facing the statistics and machine learning communities. While deep neural networks (DNNs) originated a…

eess.IV2024

realSEUDO for real-time calcium imaging analysis

Iuliia Dmitrieva, Sergey Babkin, Adam S. Charles

Closed-loop neuroscience experimentation, where recorded neural activity is used to modify the experiment on-the-fly, is critical for deducing causal connections and optimizing exp…

math.ST2015

Re-Weighted l_1 Dynamic Filtering for Time-Varying Sparse Signal Estimation

Adam S. Charles, Christopher J. Rozell

Signal estimation from incomplete observations improves as more signal structure can be exploited in the inference process. Classic algorithms (e.g., Kalman filtering) have exploit…

cs.CV2026

Bayesian In Vivo Tracking of Synapses using Joint Poisson Deconvolution and Diffeomorphic Registration

Shashwat Kumar, Dominic M. Padova, Binish Narang +6

Synapses are densely packed submicron structures that dynamically reorganize during learning and memory formation. Longitudinal \textit{in vivo} imaging of fluorescently tagged syn…

stat.ML2026

Neighbor Embedding for High-Dimensional Sparse Poisson Data

Noga Mudrik, Adam S. Charles

Across many scientific fields, measurements often represent the number of times an event occurs. For example, a document can be represented by word occurrence counts, neural activi…

eess.IV2022

Data Processing of Functional Optical Microscopy for Neuroscience

Hadas Benisty, Alexander Song, Gal Mishne +1

Functional optical imaging in neuroscience is rapidly growing with the development of new optical systems and fluorescence indicators. To realize the potential of these massive spa…

q-bio.QM2021

An Efficient and Flexible Spike Train Model via Empirical Bayes

Qi She, Xiaoli Wu, Beth Jelfs +2

Accurate statistical models of neural spike responses can characterize the information carried by neural populations. But the limited samples of spike counts during recording usual…

stat.AP2019

Learning spatially-correlated temporal dictionaries for calcium imaging

Gal Mishne, Adam S. Charles

Calcium imaging has become a fundamental neural imaging technique, aiming to recover the individual activity of hundreds of neurons in a cortical region. Current methods (mostly ma…

eess.SP2020

Efficient Tracking of Sparse Signals via an Earth Mover's Distance Dynamics Regularizer

Nicholas P. Bertrand, Adam S. Charles, John Lee +2

Tracking algorithms such as the Kalman filter aim to improve inference performance by leveraging the temporal dynamics in streaming observations. However, the tracking regularizers…

q-bio.QM2026

Partitioning Neural Co-Variability

Skyler Thomas, Brandon J. Zhu, Kathleen E. Cullen +1

Trial-to-trial variability of neural responses has been linked to important aspects of neural computation and is essential for understanding how neuronal populations respond. While…

cs.LG2025

Unsupervised discovery of the shared and private geometry in multi-view data

Sai Koukuntla, Joshua B. Julian, Jesse C. Kaminsky +4

Studying complex real-world phenomena often involves data from multiple views (e.g. sensor modalities or brain regions), each capturing different aspects of the underlying system.…