Paper List
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Macroscopic Dominance from Microscopic Extremes: Symmetry Breaking in Spatial Competition
This paper addresses the fundamental question of how microscopic stochastic advantages in spatial exploration translate into macroscopic resource domi...
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Linear Readout of Neural Manifolds with Continuous Variables
This paper addresses the core challenge of quantifying how the geometric structure of high-dimensional neural population activity (neural manifolds) d...
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Theory of Cell Body Lensing and Phototaxis Sign Reversal in “Eyeless” Mutants of Chlamydomonas
This paper solves the core puzzle of how eyeless mutants of Chlamydomonas exhibit reversed phototaxis by quantitatively modeling the competition betwe...
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Cross-Species Transfer Learning for Electrophysiology-to-Transcriptomics Mapping in Cortical GABAergic Interneurons
This paper addresses the challenge of predicting transcriptomic identity from electrophysiological recordings in human cortical interneurons, where li...
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Uncovering statistical structure in large-scale neural activity with Restricted Boltzmann Machines
This paper addresses the core challenge of modeling large-scale neural population activity (1500-2000 neurons) with interpretable higher-order interac...
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Realizing Common Random Numbers: Event-Keyed Hashing for Causally Valid Stochastic Models
This paper addresses the critical problem that standard stateful PRNG implementations in agent-based models violate causal validity by making random d...
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A Standardized Framework for Evaluating Gene Expression Generative Models
This paper addresses the critical lack of standardized evaluation protocols for single-cell gene expression generative models, where inconsistent metr...
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Single Molecule Localization Microscopy Challenge: A Biologically Inspired Benchmark for Long-Sequence Modeling
This paper addresses the core challenge of evaluating state-space models on biologically realistic, sparse, and stochastic temporal processes, which a...
Simulation and inference methods for non-Markovian stochastic biochemical reaction networks
School of Mathematical Sciences, Queensland University of Technology | Centre for Data Science, Queensland University of Technology | ARC Centre of Excellence for Mathematical Analysis of Cellular Systems (MACSYS), Queensland University of Technology
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IN SHORT: This paper addresses the computational bottleneck of simulating and performing Bayesian inference for non-Markovian biochemical systems with history-dependent delays, which are crucial for modeling processes like gene transcription but are prohibitively expensive with existing methods.
核心创新
- Methodology Generalizes the next reaction method and τ-leaping to support arbitrary inter-event time distributions for non-Markovian systems, maintaining computational scalability.
- Methodology Introduces a novel coupling scheme to generate positively correlated exact and approximate non-Markovian sample paths, a prerequisite for variance reduction techniques.
- Methodology Enables the application of multifidelity and multilevel Monte Carlo (MLMC) methods to non-Markovian systems for the first time, bridging a significant methodological gap.
主要结论
- The proposed non-Markovian simulation algorithms and coupling scheme successfully enable multifidelity inference, demonstrated on a gene regulation model with delayed auto-inhibition.
- The method achieves a computational speedup of two orders of magnitude (100x) in inference efficiency compared to standard approaches for the non-Markovian case study.
- The framework supports arbitrary delay distributions (state- and time-dependent), significantly extending the practical modeling scope beyond previous methods limited to simpler, time-only delays.
摘要: Stochastic models of biochemical reaction networks are widely used to capture intrinsic noise in cellular systems. The typical formulation of these models are based on Markov processes for which there is extensive research on efficient simulation and inference. However, there are biological processes, such as gene transcription and translation, that introduce history dependent dynamics requiring non-Markovian processes to accurately capture the stochastic dynamics of the system. This greater realism comes with additional computational challenges for simulation and parameter inference. We develop efficient stochastic simulation algorithms for well-mixed non-Markovian stochastic biochemical reaction networks with delays that depend on system state and time. Our methods generalize the next reaction method and τ-leaping method to support arbitrary inter-event time distributions while preserving computational scalability. We also introduce a coupling scheme to generate exact non-Markovian sample paths that are positively correlated to an approximate non-Markovian τ-leaping sample path. This enables substantial computational gains for Bayesian inference of model parameters though multifidelity simulation-based inference schemes. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach on a gene regulation model with delayed auto-inhibition, showing substantial gains in both simulation accuracy and inference efficiency of two orders of magnitude. These results extend the practical applicability of non-Markovian models in systems biology and beyond.