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Despite their success and widespread adoption, the opaque nature of deep neural networks (DNNs) continues to hinder trust, especially in critical applications. Current interpretability solutions often yield inconsistent or oversimplified…

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The rapid advancement in high-throughput techniques has fueled the generation of large volume of biological data rapidly with low cost. Some of these techniques are microarray and next generation sequencing which provides genome level…

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Deep neural networks (DNN) have shown remarkable success in the classification of physiological signals. In this study we propose a method for examining to what extent does a DNN's performance rely on rediscovering existing features of the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-08-26 Tom Beer , Bar Eini-Porat , Sebastian Goodfellow , Danny Eytan , Uri Shalit

Biological structure and function depend on complex regulatory interactions between many genes. A wealth of gene expression data is available from high-throughput genome-wide measurement technologies, but effective gene regulatory network…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2016-03-28 Arwen Vanice Bradley , Ye Henry Li , Bokyung Choi , Wing Hung Wong

Causal representation learning seeks to uncover causal relationships among high-level latent variables from low-level, entangled, and noisy observations. Existing approaches often either rely on deep neural networks, which lack…

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Data-driven discovery of partial differential equations (PDEs) has achieved considerable development in recent years. Several aspects of problems have been resolved by sparse regression-based and neural network-based methods. However, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Hao Xu , Dongxiao Zhang

In recent years, Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) based trackers have achieved state-of-the-art performance on multiple benchmark datasets. Most of these trackers train a binary classifier to distinguish the target from its background.…

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Gene regulation is a complex process involving the role of several genomic elements which work in concert to drive spatio-temporal expression. The experimental characterization of gene regulatory elements is a very complex and…

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Mapping gene expression as a quantitative trait using whole genome-sequencing and transcriptome analysis allows to discover the functional consequences of genetic variation. We developed a novel method and ultra-fast software Findr for…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2017-08-23 Lingfei Wang , Tom Michoel

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

The advent of high--throughput transcription profiling technologies has enabled identification of genes and pathways associated with disease, providing new avenues for precision medicine. A key challenge is to analyze this data in the…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2019-01-11 Sahil D. Shah , Rosemary Braun

Although most graph neural networks (GNNs) can operate on graphs of any size, their classification performance often declines on graphs larger than those encountered during training. Existing methods insufficiently address the removal of…

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Complex biological functions are carried out by the interaction of genes and proteins. Uncovering the gene regulation network behind a function is one of the central themes in biology. Typically, it involves extensive experiments of…

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We present Causal Generative Neural Networks (CGNNs) to learn functional causal models from observational data. CGNNs leverage conditional independencies and distributional asymmetries to discover bivariate and multivariate causal…

Causal discovery of genome-scale networks is important for identifying pathways from genes to observable traits - e.g. differences in cell function, disease, drug resistance and others. Causal learners based on graphical models rely on…

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We introduce a novel gene regulatory network (GRN) inference method that integrates optimal transport (OT) with a deep-learning structural inference model. Advances in next-generation sequencing enable detailed yet destructive gene…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Tsz Pan Tong , Aoran Wang , George Panagopoulos , Jun Pang

The behaviour of gene regulatory networks (GRNs) is typically analysed using simulation-based statistical testing-like methods. In this paper, we demonstrate that we can replace this approach by a formal verification-like method that gives…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2015-01-19 Mirco Giacobbe , Calin C. Guet , Ashutosh Gupta , Thomas A. Henzinger , Tiago Paixao , Tatjana Petrov

Bacterial cells are sensitive to a range of external signals used to learn the environment. These incoming external signals are then processed using a Gene Regulatory Network (GRN), exhibiting similarities to modern computing algorithms. An…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2023-01-12 Samitha Somathilaka , Daniel P. Martins , Xu Li , Yusong Li , Sasitharan Balasubramaniam

Model discovery based on existing data has been one of the major focuses of mathematical modelers for decades. Despite tremendous achievements of model identification from adequate data, how to unravel the models from limited data is less…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-09-25 Jia Zhao , Jarrod Mau

Effective search methods are crucial for improving the performance of deep generative models at test time. In this paper, we introduce a novel test-time search method, Neural Genetic Search (NGS), which incorporates the evolutionary…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Hyeonah Kim , Sanghyeok Choi , Jiwoo Son , Jinkyoo Park , Changhyun Kwon