NEURAL LATENTS

Advances in neural recording present increasing opportunities to study neural activity in unprecedented detail. Latent variable models (LVMs) are promising tools for analyzing this rich activity across diverse neural systems and behaviors, as LVMs do not depend on known relationships between the activity and external experimental variables. To coordinate LVM modeling efforts, we introduce the Neural Latents Benchmark (NLB). The first benchmark suite, NLB 2021, evaluates models on 7 datasets of neural spiking activity spanning 4 tasks and brain areas... A Benchmark for Models of Neural Data