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Structural parameter identifiability is a property of a differential model with parameters that allows for the parameters to be determined from the model equations in the absence of noise. One of the standard approaches to assessing this…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2020-12-29 Alexey Ovchinnikov , Gleb Pogudin , Peter Thompson

Ordinary differential equations (ODEs) are widely used to model dynamical behavior of systems. It is important to perform identifiability analysis prior to estimating unknown parameters in ODEs (a.k.a. inverse problem), because if a system…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-11 Xing Qiu , Tao Xu , Babak Soltanalizadeh , Hulin Wu

Parameter identifiability is a structural property of an ODE model for recovering the values of parameters from the data (i.e., from the input and output variables). This property is a prerequisite for meaningful parameter identification in…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-07 Alexey Ovchinnikov , Anand Pillay , Gleb Pogudin , Thomas Scanlon

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

The successful application of epidemic models hinges on our ability to estimate model parameters from limited observations reliably. An often-overlooked step before estimating model parameters consists of ensuring that the model parameters…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-09-29 Gerardo Chowell , Sushma Dahal , Yuganthi R. Liyanage , Amna Tariq , Necibe Tuncer

Effective application of mathematical models to interpret biological data and make accurate predictions often requires that model parameters are identifiable. Approaches to assess the so-called structural identifiability of models are…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-02-28 Alexander P Browning , Maria Tască , Carles Falcó , Ruth E Baker

Identifiability concerns finding which unknown parameters of a model can be quantified from given input-output data. Many linear ODE models, used in systems biology and pharmacokinetics, are unidentifiable, which means that parameters can…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2013-12-12 Nicolette Meshkat , Seth Sullivant

Reliable predictions from systems biology models require knowing whether parameters can be estimated from available data, and with what certainty. Identifiability analysis reveals whether parameters are learnable in principle (structural…

Ordinary differential equation models have become a standard tool for the mechanistic description of biochemical processes. If parameters are inferred from experimental data, such mechanistic models can provide accurate predictions about…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2018-10-12 Fabian Fröhlich , Carolin Loos , Jan Hasenauer

The successful application of modern machine learning for time series classification is often hampered by limitations in quality and quantity of available training data. To overcome these limitations, available domain expert knowledge in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Janis Norden , Elisa Oostwal , Michael Chappell , Peter Tino , Kerstin Bunte

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…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Xinshuai Dong , Ignavier Ng , Biwei Huang , Yuewen Sun , Songyao Jin , Roberto Legaspi , Peter Spirtes , Kun Zhang

The advancement of in-vehicle sensors provides abundant datasets to estimate parameters of car-following models that describe driver behaviors. The question of parameter identifiability of such models (i.e., whether it is possible to infer…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-02-21 Yanbing Wang , Maria Laura Delle Monache , Daniel B. Work

To be fully useful for public health practice, models for epidemic response must be able to do more than predict -- it is also important to incorporate the mechanisms underlying transmission dynamics to enable policymakers and practitioners…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-05-26 Jiale Tan , Marisa C. Eisenberg

We describe a method for the identification of models for dynamical systems from observational data. The method is based on the concept of symbolic regression and uses genetic programming to evolve a system of ordinary differential…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-14 Gabriel Kronberger , Lukas Kammerer , Michael Kommenda

Linear compartmental models are a widely used tool for analyzing systems arising in biology, medicine, and more. In such settings, it is essential to know whether model parameters can be recovered from experimental data. This is the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-18 Katherine Clemens , Jonathan Martinez , Anne Shiu , Michaela Thompson , Benjamin Warren

An efficient structural identifiability analysis algorithm is developed in this study for a broad range of network structures. The proposed method adopts the Wright's path coefficient method to generate identifiability equations in forms of…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2017-08-25 Yulin Wang , Na Lu , Hongyu Miao

We summarize recent progress on the theory and applications of structural identifiability of compartmental models. On the applications side, we review identifiability analyses undertaken recently for models arising in epidemiology,…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-07-08 Nicolette Meshkat , Anne Shiu

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

Identifiability is a necessary condition for successful parameter estimation of dynamic system models. A major component of identifiability analysis is determining the identifiable parameter combinations, the functional forms for the…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2013-10-07 Marisa C. Eisenberg , Michael A. L. Hayashi

Online system identification algorithms are widely used for monitoring, diagnostics and control by continuously adapting to time-varying dynamics. Typically, these algorithms consider a model structure that lacks parsimony and offers…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-28 Koen Classens , Rodrigo A. González , Tom Oomen