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This research applies conditional score-based diffusion models to map viable parameter manifolds in complex dynamical systems, effectively using AI to visualize hidden compensation geometries in biological networks like neurons. By treating robustness and parameter dependencies as inverse geometry problems, the study demonstrates how machine learning can decode high-dimensional constraints from limited experimental observables. This approach offers a practical framework for interrogating the structural stability of chaotic systems and neural models through amortized sampling techniques.
Diffusion learning reveals viable parameter manifolds and compensation geometry in biological dynamical systems
arXiv:2607.03671v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Models of complex systems often have many parameters, yet are constrained by far fewer experimentally accessible observables; consequently, similar activity can emerge from coordinated parameter changes. We formalize these compatible parameter sets as \emph{viable parameter manifolds}: the inverse images of target dynamical features under a parameter-to-feature map. The relevant codimension is not the number of reported features, but the effective rank of that map at the target scale. Locally redundant features lower the effective codimension, while poor conditioning, high curvature, or regime mixing degrade learnability. We train conditional score-based diffusion models on simulated parameter--feature pairs and use them as amortized samplers of prior-weighted viable sets. In the Lorenz system, scalar trajectory statistics generate thin viable sheets, and a finite-tolerance conditioning localizes a transition-adjacent corridor. In the Izhikevich neuron model, four firing descriptors lie close to a nearly two-dimensional family of features, and the learned inverse images reveal distinct regular and irregular compensation geometries. In a deterministic ODE reduction of finite spiking networks, the same framework reveals excitatory--inhibitory compensation, timescale--coupling tradeoffs, and viable manifolds across 4--12 parameter dimensions. In this view, robustness, compensation, and hidden parameter dependencies are organized as inverse geometry, with diffusion models providing practical tools for sampling, visualizing, and interrogating that geometry.
Abstract:Models of complex systems often have many parameters, yet are constrained by far fewer experimentally accessible observables; consequently, similar activity can emerge from coordinated parameter changes. We formalize these compatible parameter sets as \emph{viable parameter manifolds}: the inverse images of target dynamical features under a parameter-to-feature map. The relevant codimension is not the number of reported features, but the effective rank of that map at the target scale. Locally redundant features lower the effective codimension, while poor conditioning, high curvature, or regime mixing degrade learnability. We train conditional score-based diffusion models on simulated parameter--feature pairs and use them as amortized samplers of prior-weighted viable sets. In the Lorenz system, scalar trajectory statistics generate thin viable sheets, and a finite-tolerance conditioning localizes a transition-adjacent corridor. In the Izhikevich neuron model, four firing descriptors lie close to a nearly two-dimensional family of features, and the learned inverse images reveal distinct regular and irregular compensation geometries. In a deterministic ODE reduction of finite spiking networks, the same framework reveals excitatory--inhibitory compensation, timescale--coupling tradeoffs, and viable manifolds across 4--12 parameter dimensions. In this view, robustness, compensation, and hidden parameter dependencies are organized as inverse geometry, with diffusion models providing practical tools for sampling, visualizing, and interrogating that geometry.
Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM); Machine Learning (cs.LG); Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD); Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
arXiv:2607.03671 [q-bio.QM]
(or arXiv:2607.03671v2 [q-bio.QM] for this version)
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2607.03671 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite
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