openretina

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Welcome!

openretina is an open-source neural network toolkit for modeling retinal responses to visual stimuli. It provides pre-trained models for inference and interpretability, as well as components for training new retina models with your own data.

Read the documentation

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• Package repository

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  Check out the main package repository on GitHub

• Read the paper

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  openretina has a biorxiv pre-print!

• Install

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  git clonepip

  Default, most flexible option. Comes with config files and notebooks.

  git clone git@github.com:open-retina/open-retina.git
  cd open-retina
  pip install -e .
  

  Simplest installation for using pre-trained models

  pip install openretina
  

• Datasets on HuggingFace

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  Browse and download retinal datasets from our HuggingFace repository.

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Quick Start

import torch
from openretina.models import load_core_readout_from_remote

# Load a pre-trained model
model = load_core_readout_from_remote("hoefling_2024_base_low_res", "cpu")

# Run a forward pass with random input
responses = model.forward(torch.rand(model.stimulus_shape(time_steps=50)))
print(f"Model predicted responses shape: {responses.shape}")

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Participating Labs

• Euler Lab

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  University of Tübingen, Center for Integrative Neuroscience

  Lab website

• Bethge Lab

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  University of Tübingen, AI Center

  Lab website

• Marre Lab

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  Institut de la Vision, Paris

  Lab website

• Ecker Lab

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  University of Göttingen

  Lab website

• Gollisch Lab

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  University Medical Center Göttingen, Department of Ophthalmology

  Lab website

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Lead maintainers

Federico D'Agostino — University of Tübingen, AI Center
Thomas Zenkel — University of Tübingen, Center for Integrative Neuroscience
Larissa Höfling — University of Tübingen, AI Center

Contributors

Baptiste Lorenzi — Institut de la Vision, Paris
Michaela Vystrčilová — University of Göttingen
Dominic Gonschorek — University of Tübingen, Center for Integrative Neuroscience
Samuel Suhai — University of Tübingen, Center for Integrative Neuroscience
Shashwat Sridhar — University Medical Center Göttingen
Samuele Virgili — Institut de la Vision, Paris