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Genes are fundamental for analyzing biological systems and many recent works proposed to utilize gene expression for various biological tasks by deep learning models. Despite their promising performance, it is hard for deep neural networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-12 Xinnan Dai , Caihua Shan , Jie Zheng , Xiaoxiao Li , Dongsheng Li

Gene regulatory networks (GRNs) orchestrate cellular decision making and survival strategies. Inferring the structure of these networks from high-dimensional transcriptomics data is a central challenge in systems biology. Traditional…

Applications · Statistics 2025-08-01 Visweswaran Ravikumar , Aaresh Bhathena , Wajd N Al-Holou , Salar Fattahi , Arvind Rao

To analyze unstructured data (text, images, audio, video), economists typically first extract low-dimensional structured features with a neural network. Neural networks do not make generically unbiased predictions, and biases will propagate…

Econometrics · Economics 2026-02-20 Jacob Carlson , Melissa Dell

Projection-based model reduction has become a popular approach to reduce the cost associated with integrating large-scale dynamical systems so they can be used in many-query settings such as optimization and uncertainty quantification. For…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-26 Han Gao , Jian-Xun Wang , Matthew J. Zahr

This paper proposes a new method to reverse engineer gene regulatory networks from experimental data. The modeling framework used is time-discrete deterministic dynamical systems, with a finite set of states for each of the variables. The…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2007-05-23 Reinhard Laubenbacher , Brandilyn Stigler

Understanding gene regulation is a fundamental step towards understanding of how cells function and respond to environmental cues and perturbations. An important step in this direction is to infer the transcription factor-gene regulatory…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2017-04-25 Yijie Wang , Dong-Yeon Cho , Hangnoh Lee , Justin Fear , Brian Oliver , Teresa M Przytycka

Biomarker discovery from high-throughput transcriptomic data is crucial for advancing precision medicine. However, existing methods often neglect gene-gene regulatory relationships and lack stability across datasets, leading to conflation…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-11-18 Chaowang Lan , Jingxin Wu , Yulong Yuan , Chuxun Liu , Huangyi Kang , Caihua Liu

Methods for time series prediction and classification of gene regulatory networks (GRNs) from gene expression data have been treated separately so far. The recent emergence of attention-based recurrent neural networks (RNN) models boosted…

Unrolled computation graphs are prevalent throughout machine learning but present challenges to automatic differentiation (AD) gradient estimation methods when their loss functions exhibit extreme local sensitivtiy, discontinuity, or…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Oscar Li , James Harrison , Jascha Sohl-Dickstein , Virginia Smith , Luke Metz

Prediction of node and graph labels are prominent network science tasks. Data analyzed in these tasks are sometimes related: entities represented by nodes in a higher-level (higher-scale) network can themselves be modeled as networks at a…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2021-05-27 Shawn Gu , Meng Jiang , Pietro Hiram Guzzi , Tijana Milenkovic

Accurate gene regulatory networks can be used to explain the emergence of different phenotypes, disease mechanisms, and other biological functions. Many methods have been proposed to infer networks from gene expression data but have been…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2018-12-11 Phan Nguyen , Rosemary Braun

Structural equation models (SEMs) have been widely adopted for inference of causal interactions in complex networks. Recent examples include unveiling topologies of hidden causal networks over which processes such as spreading diseases, or…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-04-05 Yanning Shen , Brian Baingana , Georgios B. Giannakis

Neural networks are usually over-parameterized with significant redundancy in the number of required neurons which results in unnecessary computation and memory usage at inference time. One common approach to address this issue is to prune…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-11-21 Mohammad Babaeizadeh , Paris Smaragdis , Roy H. Campbell

Motivation: Inferring the structure of gene regulatory networks from high--throughput datasets remains an important and unsolved problem. Current methods are hampered by problems such as noise, low sample size, and incomplete…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2017-12-04 Phan Nguyen , Rosemary Braun

Motivation: Laboratory gene regulatory data for a species are sporadic. Despite the abundance of gene regulatory network algorithms that employ single data sets, few algorithms can combine the vast but disperse sources of data and extract…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2020-08-17 Mehrzad Saremi , Maryam Amirmazlaghani

In randomized controlled trials without interference, regression adjustment is widely used to enhance the efficiency of treatment effect estimation. This paper extends this efficiency principle to settings with network interference, where a…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-02-18 Xinyuan Fan , Chenlei Leng , Weichi Wu

Medical decision-making makes frequent use of algorithms that combine risk equations with rules, providing clear and standardized treatment pathways. Symbolic regression (SR) traditionally limits its search space to continuous function…

We introduce the "NoBackTrack" algorithm to train the parameters of dynamical systems such as recurrent neural networks. This algorithm works in an online, memoryless setting, thus requiring no backpropagation through time, and is scalable,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-11-24 Yann Ollivier , Corentin Tallec , Guillaume Charpiat

Our goal in this paper is to automatically extract a set of decision rules (rule set) that best explains a classification data set. First, a large set of decision rules is extracted from a set of decision trees trained on the data set. The…

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