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Autori principali: Dolgov, Sergey, Savostyanov, Dmitry
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author Dolgov, Sergey
Savostyanov, Dmitry
author_facet Dolgov, Sergey
Savostyanov, Dmitry
contents We consider a problem of inferring contact network from nodal states observed during an epidemiological process. In a black--box Bayesian optimisation framework this problem reduces to a discrete likelihood optimisation over the set of possible networks. The cardinality of this set grows combinatorially with the number of network nodes, which makes this optimisation computationally challenging. For each network, its likelihood is the probability for the observed data to appear during the evolution of the epidemiological process on this network. This probability can be very small, particularly if the network is significantly different from the ground truth network, from which the observed data actually appear. A commonly used stochastic simulation algorithm struggles to recover rare events and hence to estimate small probabilities and likelihoods. In this paper we replace the stochastic simulation with solving the chemical master equation for the probabilities of all network states. Since this equation also suffers from the curse of dimensionality, we apply tensor train approximations to overcome it and enable fast and accurate computations. Numerical simulations demonstrate efficient black--box Bayesian inference of the network.
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spellingShingle Tensor product algorithms for inference of contact network from epidemiological data
Dolgov, Sergey
Savostyanov, Dmitry
Computation
Numerical Analysis
Probability
Physics and Society
15A69, 34A30, 37N25, 60J28, 62F15, 65F55, 90B15, 95C42
We consider a problem of inferring contact network from nodal states observed during an epidemiological process. In a black--box Bayesian optimisation framework this problem reduces to a discrete likelihood optimisation over the set of possible networks. The cardinality of this set grows combinatorially with the number of network nodes, which makes this optimisation computationally challenging. For each network, its likelihood is the probability for the observed data to appear during the evolution of the epidemiological process on this network. This probability can be very small, particularly if the network is significantly different from the ground truth network, from which the observed data actually appear. A commonly used stochastic simulation algorithm struggles to recover rare events and hence to estimate small probabilities and likelihoods. In this paper we replace the stochastic simulation with solving the chemical master equation for the probabilities of all network states. Since this equation also suffers from the curse of dimensionality, we apply tensor train approximations to overcome it and enable fast and accurate computations. Numerical simulations demonstrate efficient black--box Bayesian inference of the network.
title Tensor product algorithms for inference of contact network from epidemiological data
topic Computation
Numerical Analysis
Probability
Physics and Society
15A69, 34A30, 37N25, 60J28, 62F15, 65F55, 90B15, 95C42
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.15031