collaborators

5 papers

q-bio.NC2025

Intrinsic Goals for Autonomous Agents: Model-Based Exploration in Virtual Zebrafish Predicts Ethological Behavior and Whole-Brain Dynamics

Reece Keller, Alyn Kirsch, Felix Pei +3

Autonomy is a hallmark of animal intelligence, enabling adaptive and intelligent behavior in complex environments without relying on external reward or task structure. Existing rei…

cs.LG2025

sbi reloaded: a toolkit for simulation-based inference workflows

Jan Boelts, Michael Deistler, Manuel Gloeckler +30

Scientists and engineers use simulators to model empirically observed phenomena. However, tuning the parameters of a simulator to ensure its outputs match observed data presents a…

cs.LG2025

Inferring stochastic low-rank recurrent neural networks from neural data

Matthijs Pals, A Erdem Sağtekin, Felix Pei +2

A central aim in computational neuroscience is to relate the activity of large populations of neurons to an underlying dynamical system. Models of these neural dynamics should idea…

q-bio.NC2024

Latent Diffusion for Neural Spiking Data

Jaivardhan Kapoor, Auguste Schulz, Julius Vetter +3

Modern datasets in neuroscience enable unprecedented inquiries into the relationship between complex behaviors and the activity of many simultaneously recorded neurons. While laten…

cs.LG2024

A Practical Guide to Sample-based Statistical Distances for Evaluating Generative Models in Science

Sebastian Bischoff, Alana Darcher, Michael Deistler +18

Generative models are invaluable in many fields of science because of their ability to capture high-dimensional and complicated distributions, such as photo-realistic images, prote…