A synchronization-capturing multi-scale solver to the noisy integrate-and-fire neuron networks
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Publication:6436038
DOI10.1137/23M1573276arXiv2305.05915MaRDI QIDQ6436038FDOQ6436038
Authors: Ziyu Du, Yantong Xie, Zhennan Zhou 
Publication date: 10 May 2023
Abstract: The noisy leaky integrate-and-fire (NLIF) model describes the voltage configurations of neuron networks with an interacting many-particles system at a microscopic level. When simulating neuron networks of large sizes, computing a coarse-grained mean-field Fokker-Planck equation solving the voltage densities of the networks at a macroscopic level practically serves as a feasible alternative in its high efficiency and credible accuracy. However, the macroscopic model fails to yield valid results of the networks when simulating considerably synchronous networks with active firing events. In this paper, we propose a multi-scale solver for the NLIF networks, which inherits the low cost of the macroscopic solver and the high reliability of the microscopic solver. For each temporal step, the multi-scale solver uses the macroscopic solver when the firing rate of the simulated network is low, while it switches to the microscopic solver when the firing rate tends to blow up. Moreover, the macroscopic and microscopic solvers are integrated with a high-precision switching algorithm to ensure the accuracy of the multi-scale solver. The validity of the multi-scale solver is analyzed from two perspectives: firstly, we provide practically sufficient conditions that guarantee the mean-field approximation of the macroscopic model and present rigorous numerical analysis on simulation errors when coupling the two solvers; secondly, the numerical performance of the multi-scale solver is validated through simulating several large neuron networks, including networks with either instantaneous or periodic input currents which prompt active firing events over a period of time.
Probabilistic methods, stochastic differential equations (65C99) Neural networks for/in biological studies, artificial life and related topics (92B20) Numerical analysis (65-XX) Finite difference methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M06) Initial-boundary value problems for PDEs of mixed type (35M13)
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