Intrinsic statistical separation of subpopulations in heterogeneous collective motion via dimensionality reduction

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Hauptverfasser: Tan, Pei, Miles, Christopher E
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author Tan, Pei
Miles, Christopher E
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Miles, Christopher E
contents Collective motion of locally interacting agents is found ubiquitously throughout nature. The inability to probe individuals has driven longstanding interest in the development of methods for inferring the underlying interactions. In the context of heterogeneous collectives, where the population consists of individuals driven by different interactions, existing approaches require some knowledge about the heterogeneities or underlying interactions. Here, we investigate the feasibility of identifying the identities in a heterogeneous collective without such prior knowledge. We numerically explore the behavior of a heterogeneous Vicsek model and find sufficiently long trajectories intrinsically cluster in a PCA-based dimensionally reduced model-agnostic description of the data. We identify how heterogeneities in each parameter in the model (interaction radius, noise, population proportions) dictate this clustering. Finally, we show the generality of this phenomenon by finding similar behavior in a heterogeneous D'Orsogna model. Altogether, our results establish and quantify the intrinsic model-agnostic statistical disentanglement of identities in heterogeneous collectives.
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spellingShingle Intrinsic statistical separation of subpopulations in heterogeneous collective motion via dimensionality reduction
Tan, Pei
Miles, Christopher E
Quantitative Methods
Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems
Biological Physics
Collective motion of locally interacting agents is found ubiquitously throughout nature. The inability to probe individuals has driven longstanding interest in the development of methods for inferring the underlying interactions. In the context of heterogeneous collectives, where the population consists of individuals driven by different interactions, existing approaches require some knowledge about the heterogeneities or underlying interactions. Here, we investigate the feasibility of identifying the identities in a heterogeneous collective without such prior knowledge. We numerically explore the behavior of a heterogeneous Vicsek model and find sufficiently long trajectories intrinsically cluster in a PCA-based dimensionally reduced model-agnostic description of the data. We identify how heterogeneities in each parameter in the model (interaction radius, noise, population proportions) dictate this clustering. Finally, we show the generality of this phenomenon by finding similar behavior in a heterogeneous D'Orsogna model. Altogether, our results establish and quantify the intrinsic model-agnostic statistical disentanglement of identities in heterogeneous collectives.
title Intrinsic statistical separation of subpopulations in heterogeneous collective motion via dimensionality reduction
topic Quantitative Methods
Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems
Biological Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.09189