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Generative models derived from large protein sequence alignments define complex fitness landscapes, but their utility for accurately modeling non-equilibrium evolutionary dynamics remains unclear. In this work, we perform a rigorous…
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Image-based crop growth modeling can substantially contribute to precision agriculture by revealing spatial crop development over time, which allows an early and location-specific estimation of relevant future plant traits, such as leaf…
Quantum Transfer Learning (QTL) offers a promising approach for visual quantum machine learning under near-term constraints, where limited qubit counts, shallow circuit depths, and costly hybrid optimization restrict end-to-end quantum…
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Multilevel selection occurs when short-term individual-level reproductive interests conflict with longer-term group-level fitness effects. Detecting and quantifying this phenomenon is key to understanding evolution of traits ranging from…
Deep generative models open new avenues for simulating realistic genomic data while preserving privacy and addressing data accessibility constraints. While previous studies have primarily focused on generating gene expression or haplotype…
Modeling dynamical biological systems is key for understanding, predicting, and controlling complex biological behaviors. Traditional methods for identifying governing equations, such as ordinary differential equations (ODEs), typically…
Understanding the genetic underpinnings of complex traits and diseases has been greatly advanced by genome-wide association studies (GWAS). However, a significant portion of trait heritability remains unexplained, known as ``missing…
High resolution phenotyping at the level of individual leaves offers fine-grained insights into plant development and stress responses. However, the full potential of accurate leaf tracking over time remains largely unexplored due to the…
In many scientific areas, data with quantitative and qualitative (QQ) responses are commonly encountered with a large number of predictors. By exploring the association between QQ responses, existing approaches often consider a joint model…
This paper presents a data-driven approach, referred to as Quantized Skeletal Learning (QSL), for generating skeletal mechanisms. The approach has two key components: (1) a weight vector that can be used to eliminate relatively unimportant…
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Graph neural networks (GNN) have emerged as a promising machine learning method for microstructure simulations such as grain growth. However, accurate modeling of realistic grain boundary networks requires large simulation cells, which GNN…
Crop yield is a highly complex trait determined by multiple factors such as genotype, environment, and their interactions. Accurate yield prediction requires fundamental understanding of the functional relationship between yield and these…