Paper List
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Autonomous Agents Coordinating Distributed Discovery Through Emergent Artifact Exchange
This paper addresses the fundamental limitation of current AI-assisted scientific research by enabling truly autonomous, decentralized investigation w...
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D-MEM: Dopamine-Gated Agentic Memory via Reward Prediction Error Routing
This paper addresses the fundamental scalability bottleneck in LLM agentic memory systems: the O(N²) computational complexity and unbounded API token ...
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Countershading coloration in blue shark skin emerges from hierarchically organized and spatially tuned photonic architectures inside skin denticles
This paper solves the core problem of how blue sharks achieve their striking dorsoventral countershading camouflage, revealing that coloration origina...
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Human-like Object Grouping in Self-supervised Vision Transformers
This paper addresses the core challenge of quantifying how well self-supervised vision models capture human-like object grouping in natural scenes, br...
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Hierarchical pp-Adic Framework for Gene Regulatory Networks: Theory and Stability Analysis
This paper addresses the core challenge of mathematically capturing the inherent hierarchical organization and multi-scale stability of gene regulator...
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Towards unified brain-to-text decoding across speech production and perception
This paper addresses the core challenge of developing a unified brain-to-text decoding framework that works across both speech production and percepti...
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Dual-Laws Model for a theory of artificial consciousness
This paper addresses the core challenge of developing a comprehensive, testable theory of consciousness that bridges biological and artificial systems...
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Pulse desynchronization of neural populations by targeting the centroid of the limit cycle in phase space
This work addresses the core challenge of determining optimal pulse timing and intensity for desynchronizing pathological neural oscillations when the...
Bayesian Inference in Epidemic Modelling: A Beginner’s Guide Illustrated with the SIR Model
PhD Mathematics
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IN SHORT: This guide addresses the core challenge of estimating uncertain epidemiological parameters (like transmission and recovery rates) from noisy, real-world outbreak data by providing a clear, applied pathway using Bayesian inference and MCMC.
核心创新
- Methodology Presents an integrated, pedagogical pipeline from the SIR ODE model through Bayesian likelihood formulation to practical MCMC implementation, demystifying the process for beginners.
- Methodology Explicitly connects the Gaussian noise assumption in the likelihood to the common least-squares fitting approach, framing Bayesian inference as its natural probabilistic extension with uncertainty quantification.
- Theory Emphasizes the interpretative power of the full posterior distribution and credible intervals over single point estimates, highlighting this as the key advantage for decision-making under uncertainty.
主要结论
- In a synthetic example with true parameters β=0.3, γ=0.1 (R0=3.0), MCMC recovered posterior means of β=0.300 (std 0.002) and γ=0.102 (std 0.001), demonstrating accurate and precise inference.
- The posterior distribution for R0 was estimated as 2.95 with a standard deviation of 0.03, showing the method successfully quantifies uncertainty in this critical epidemiological metric.
- The framework successfully separates the roles of individual parameters β and γ, showing that different pairs can yield the same R0 but produce distinct epidemic curve shapes (e.g., peak sharpness), which point estimates alone would miss.
摘要: This guide provides a beginner-friendly introduction to Bayesian inference in the context of epidemic modeling, using the classic Susceptible-Infected-Recovered (SIR) model as a working example. It covers the mathematical setup of the SIR ordinary differential equations, the formulation of the Bayesian inference problem (likelihood and prior specification), and the implementation of Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) via the Metropolis-Hastings algorithm to estimate transmission (β) and recovery (γ) rates from noisy outbreak data. The tutorial emphasizes the conceptual advantages of the Bayesian framework—which provides full posterior distributions quantifying parameter uncertainty—over frequentist point estimates, and walks through a complete synthetic example with results and interpretation.