SEMINARIO DI PROBABILITA’ E STATISTICA MATEMATICA
IL giorno 14/01/2020, alle ore 14
nell’Aula di Consiglio del Dipartimento di Matematica, Sapienza
Università di Roma
Il prof. Antonio Galves
dell’Universidade de Sao Paulo
terrà una conferenza dal titolo
ESTIMATING THE INTERACTION GRAPH OF STOCHASTIC NEURAL DYNAMICS
Abstract:
We address the question of statistical model selection for a class of
stochastic models of biological neural nets.Models in this class are
systems of interacting chains with memory of variable length. Each
chain describes the activity of a single neuron, indicating whether it
spikes or not at a given time. The spiking probability of a given
neuron depends on the time evolution of its presynaptic neurons since
its last spike time. When a neuron spikes, its potential is reset to a
resting level and postsynaptic current pulses are generated, modifying
the membrane potential of all its postsynaptic neurons. The
relationship between a neuron and its pre- and postsynaptic neurons
defines an oriented graph, the interaction graph of the model. The
goal is to estimate this graph based on the observation of the spike
activity of a finite set of neurons over a finite time. We provide
explicit exponential upper bounds for the probabilities of under- and
overestimating the interaction graph restricted to the observed set
and obtain the strong consistency of the estimator. Our result does
not require stationarity nor uniqueness of the invariant measure of
the process. Joint work with A. Duarte, E. Locherbach and G. Ost.