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20172026
most citedFlexible statistical inference for mechanistic models of neural dynamics

96 citations · 203 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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10 papers

q-bio.NC2026

Discovering Mechanistic Models of Neural Activity: System Identification in an in Silico Zebrafish

Jan-Matthis Lueckmann, Viren Jain, Michał Januszewski

Constructing mechanistic models of neural circuits is a fundamental goal of neuroscience, yet verifying such models is limited by the lack of ground truth. To rigorously test model…

cs.AI2025

An AI system to help scientists write expert-level empirical software

Eser Aygün, Anastasiya Belyaeva, Gheorghe Comanici +39

The cycle of scientific discovery is frequently bottlenecked by the slow, manual creation of software to support computational experiments\cite{hannay2009how}. To address this, we…

stat.ML2025★ 4 cited

Simulation-Based Inference: A Practical Guide

Michael Deistler, Jan Boelts, Peter Steinbach +11

A central challenge in many areas of science and engineering is to identify model parameters that are consistent with prior knowledge and empirical data. Bayesian inference offers…

q-bio.NC2025

ZAPBench: A Benchmark for Whole-Brain Activity Prediction in Zebrafish

Jan-Matthis Lueckmann, Alexander Immer, Alex Bo-Yuan Chen +15

Data-driven benchmarks have led to significant progress in key scientific modeling domains including weather and structural biology. Here, we introduce the Zebrafish Activity Predi…

cs.CV2025

Forecasting Whole-Brain Neuronal Activity from Volumetric Video

Alexander Immer, Jan-Matthis Lueckmann, Alex Bo-Yuan Chen +14

Large-scale neuronal activity recordings with fluorescent calcium indicators are increasingly common, yielding high-resolution 2D or 3D videos. Traditional analysis pipelines reduc…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

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…

stat.ML2022★ 6 cited

GATSBI: Generative Adversarial Training for Simulation-Based Inference

Poornima Ramesh, Jan-Matthis Lueckmann, Jan Boelts +4

Simulation-based inference (SBI) refers to statistical inference on stochastic models for which we can generate samples, but not compute likelihoods. Like SBI algorithms, generativ…

stat.ML2021★ 21 cited

Benchmarking Simulation-Based Inference

Jan-Matthis Lueckmann, Jan Boelts, David S. Greenberg +2

Recent advances in probabilistic modelling have led to a large number of simulation-based inference algorithms which do not require numerical evaluation of likelihoods. However, a…

stat.ML2018★ 75 cited

Likelihood-free inference with emulator networks

Jan-Matthis Lueckmann, Giacomo Bassetto, Theofanis Karaletsos +1

Approximate Bayesian Computation (ABC) provides methods for Bayesian inference in simulation-based stochastic models which do not permit tractable likelihoods. We present a new ABC…

stat.ML2017★ 96 cited

Flexible statistical inference for mechanistic models of neural dynamics

Jan-Matthis Lueckmann, Pedro J. Goncalves, Giacomo Bassetto +3

Mechanistic models of single-neuron dynamics have been extensively studied in computational neuroscience. However, identifying which models can quantitatively reproduce empirically…