Pre-training artificial neural networks with spontaneous retinal activity improves motion prediction in natural scenes

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Pubblicato in:bioRxiv (Jan 10, 2025)
Autore principale: May, Lilly
Altri autori: Dauphin, Alice, Gjorgjieva, Julijana
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520 3 |a The ability to process visual stimuli rich with motion represents an essential skill for animal survival and is largely already present at the onset of vision. Although the exact mechanisms underlying its maturation remain elusive, spontaneous activity patterns in the retina, known as retinal waves, have been shown to contribute to this developmental process. Retinal waves exhibit complex spatio-temporal statistics and contribute to the establishment of circuit connectivity and function in the visual system, including the formation of retinotopic maps and the refinement of receptive fields in downstream areas such as the thalamus and visual cortex. Recent work in mice has shown that retinal waves have statistical features matching those of natural visual stimuli, such as optic flow, suggesting that they could prime the visual system for motion processing upon vision onset. Motivated by these findings, we examined whether artificial neural network (ANN) models trained on natural movies show improved performance if pre-trained with retinal waves. We employed the spatio-temporally complex task of next-frame prediction, in which the ANN was trained to predict the next frame based on preceding input frames of a movie. We found that pre-training ANNs with retinal waves enhances the processing of real-world visual stimuli and accelerates learning. Strikingly, when we merely replaced the initial training epochs on naturalistic stimuli with retinal waves, keeping the total training time the same, we still found that an ANN trained on retinal waves temporarily outperforms one trained solely on natural movies. Similar to observations made in biological systems, we also found that pre-training with spontaneous activity refines the receptive field of ANN neurons. Overall, our work sheds light on the functional role of spatio-temporally patterned spontaneous activity in the processing of motion in natural scenes, suggesting it acts as a training signal to prepare the developing visual system for adult visual processing.Competing Interest StatementThe authors have declared no competing interest.Footnotes* Revised Figures 3, 5, 6, and 7; added a section on the analysis of neuronal response characteristics; updated the author list.* https://github.com/comp-neural-circuits/pre-training-ANNs-with-retinal-waves* https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10317798 
653 |a Signal processing 
653 |a Visual perception 
653 |a Visual discrimination learning 
653 |a Optic flow 
653 |a Visual system 
653 |a Temporal lobe 
653 |a Neural networks 
653 |a Retina 
653 |a Training 
653 |a Vision 
653 |a Visual pathways 
653 |a Motion detection 
653 |a Visual cortex 
653 |a Information processing 
653 |a Receptive field 
653 |a Statistical analysis 
653 |a Visual stimuli 
653 |a Activity patterns 
700 1 |a Dauphin, Alice 
700 1 |a Gjorgjieva, Julijana 
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