Parameters estimation for spatio-temporal maximum entropy distributions: application to neural spike trains.

Hassan Nasser (1) , Bruno Cessac (1)

1 NEUROMATHCOMP - Mathematical and Computational Neuroscience

We propose a numerical method to learn Maximum Entropy (MaxEnt) distributions with spatio-temporal constraints from experimental spike trains. This is an extension of two papers (Dudik et al 04 and Broderick et al 07) who proposed the estimation of parameters where only spatial constraints were taken into account. The extension we propose allows to properly handle memory effects in spike statistics, for large sized neural networks.

Domaines: Neurosciences

Hassan Nasser, Bruno Cessac. Parameters estimation for spatio-temporal maximum entropy distributions: application to neural spike trains.. [Research Report] 2014. ⟨hal-00927080⟩