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Linear causal models are important tools for modeling causal dependencies and yet in practice, only a subset of the variables can be observed. In this paper, we examine the parameter identifiability of these models by investigating whether…

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For mathematical and experimental ease, models with time varying parameters are often simplified to assume constant parameters. However, this simplification can potentially lead to identifiability issues (lack of uniqueness of parameter…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2026-03-24 Jessica R Conrad , James M Hyman , Marisa C Eisenberg

Parameter identifiability describes whether, for a given differential model, one can determine parameter values from model equations. Knowing global or local identifiability properties allows construction of better practical experiments to…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2021-07-02 Ilia Ilmer , Alexey Ovchinnikov , Gleb Pogudin

This paper explores unsupervised learning of parsing models along two directions. First, which models are identifiable from infinite data? We use a general technique for numerically checking identifiability based on the rank of a Jacobian…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2012-06-15 Daniel Hsu , Sham M. Kakade , Percy Liang

How to make a dynamic system unidentifiable is an important but still open issue. It not only requires that the parameters of the systems but also the equivalent systems cannot be identified by any identification approaches. Thus, it is a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-31 Xiangyu Mao , Jianping He

A recent development in data-driven modelling addresses the problem of identifying dynamic models of interconnected systems, represented as linear dynamic networks. For these networks the notion network identifiability has been introduced…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-03-08 Harm Weerts , Paul M. J. Van den Hof , Arne Dankers

What does it mean to say that a quantity is identifiable from the data? Statisticians seem to agree on a definition in the context of parametric statistical models --- roughly, a parameter $\theta$ in a model $\mathcal{P} = \{P_\theta:…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-02-17 Guillaume Basse , Iavor Bojinov

In several model-based system maintenance problems, parameters are used to represent unknown characteristics of a component, equipment degradation, etc. This allows for modelling constant, slow-varying terms. The identifiability of these…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-24 Krishnan Srinivasarengan , José Ragot , Christophe Aubrun , Didier Maquin

Latent feature models (LFM)s are widely employed for extracting latent structures of data. While offering high, parameter estimation is difficult with LFMs because of the combinational nature of latent features, and non-identifiability is a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-27 Ryota Suzuki , Shingo Takahashi , Murtuza Petladwala , Shigeru Kohmoto

Log-linear models are typically fitted to contingency table data to describe and identify the relationship between different categorical variables. However, the data may include observed zero cell entries. The presence of zero cell entries…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-12-01 Serveh Sharifi Far , Michail Papathomas , Ruth King

Practical identifiability is a critical concern in data-driven modeling of mathematical systems. In this paper, we propose a novel framework for practical identifiability analysis to evaluate parameter identifiability in mathematical models…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2026-01-06 Shun Wang , Wenrui Hao

This paper presents a method for investigating, through an automatic procedure, the (lack of) identifiability of parametrized dynamical models. This method takes into account constraints on parameters and returns parameters whose…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-10-11 Nathalie Verdière , Sébastien Orange

Parameter inference and uncertainty quantification are important steps when relating mathematical models to real-world observations, and when estimating uncertainty in model predictions. However, methods for doing this can be…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-08-27 Michael J. Plank , Matthew J. Simpson

In this note, we propose a novel approach for a class of autonomous dynamical systems that allows, given some observations of the solutions, to identify its parameters and reconstruct the state vector. This approach relies on proving the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-08-22 Alicja B Kubik , Alain Rapaport , Benjamin Ivorra , Ángel M Ramos

Causal models communicate our assumptions about causes and effects in real-world phe- nomena. Often the interest lies in the identification of the effect of an action which means deriving an expression from the observed probability…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-06-20 Santtu Tikka , Juha Karvanen

Many models in mathematical epidemiology are developed with the aim to provide a framework for parameter estimation and then prediction. It is well-known that parameters are not always uniquely identifiable. In this paper we consider…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-08-17 István Zoltán Kiss , Péter L. Simon

Learning the unknown causal parameters of a linear structural causal model is a fundamental task in causal analysis. The task, known as the problem of identification, asks to estimate the parameters of the model from a combination of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Julian Dörfler , Benito van der Zander , Markus Bläser , Maciej Liskiewicz

Identifiability is a structural property of any ODE model characterized by a set of unknown parameters. It describes the possibility of determining the values of these parameters from fusing the observations of the system inputs and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-12 Agostino Martinelli

Identifiability of parameters is an essential property for a statistical model to be useful in most settings. However, establishing parameter identifiability for Bayesian networks with hidden variables remains challenging. In the context of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2014-06-04 Elizabeth S. Allman , John A. Rhodes , Elena Stanghellini , Marco Valtorta

The predominant way of modelling mortality rates is the Lee-Carter model and its many extensions. The Lee-Carter model and its many extensions use a latent process to forecast. These models are estimated using a two-step procedure that…

Applications · Statistics 2016-12-14 Eric Beutner , Simon Reese , Jean-Pierre Urbain