Task: Summarization
Input (English): Brain-Machine Interfaces (BMIs) have recently emerged as a clinically viable option
 to restore voluntary movements after paralysis. These devices are based on the
 ability to extract information about movement intent from neural signals recorded
 using multi-electrode arrays chronically implanted in the motor cortices of the
 brain. However, the inherent loss and turnover of recorded neurons requires repeated
 recalibrations of the interface, which can potentially alter the day-to-day
 user experience. The resulting need for continued user adaptation interferes with
 the natural, subconscious use of the BMI. Here, we introduce a new computational
 approach that decodes movement intent from a low-dimensional latent representation
 of the neural data. We implement various domain adaptation methods
 to stabilize the interface over significantly long times. This includes Canonical
 Correlation Analysis used to align the latent variables across days; this method
 requires prior point-to-point correspondence of the time series across domains.
 Alternatively, we match the empirical probability distributions of the latent variables
 across days through the minimization of their Kullback-Leibler divergence.
 These two methods provide a significant and comparable improvement in the performance
 of the interface. However, implementation of an Adversarial Domain
 Adaptation Network trained to match the empirical probability distribution of the
 residuals of the reconstructed neural signals outperforms the two methods based
 on latent variables, while requiring remarkably few data points to solve the domain
 adaptation problem.
Output (English): We implement an adversarial domain adaptation network to stabilize a fixed Brain-Machine Interface against gradual changes in the recorded neural signals.