Experimental design in dynamical system identification: A bandit-based active learning approach

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Abstract

This study focuses on dynamical system identification, with the reverse modeling of a gene regulatory network as motivating application. An active learning approach is used to iteratively select the most informative experiments needed to improve the parameters and hidden variables estimates in a dynamical model given a budget for experiments. The design of experiments under these budgeted resources is formalized in terms of sequential optimization. A local optimization criterion (reward) is designed to assess each experiment in the sequence, and the global optimization of the sequence is tackled in a game-inspired setting, within the Upper Confidence Tree framework combining Monte-Carlo tree-search and multi-armed bandits. The approach, called EDEN for Experimental Design for parameter Estimation in a Network, shows very good performances on several realistic simulated problems of gene regulatory network reverse-modeling, inspired from the international challenge DREAM7.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMachine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases - European Conference, ECML PKDD 2014, Proceedings
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages306-321
Number of pages16
EditionPART 2
ISBN (Print)9783662448502
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2014
Externally publishedYes
EventEuropean Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases, ECML PKDD 2014 - Nancy, France
Duration: 15 Sept 201419 Sept 2014

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
NumberPART 2
Volume8725 LNAI
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

ConferenceEuropean Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases, ECML PKDD 2014
Country/TerritoryFrance
CityNancy
Period15/09/1419/09/14

Keywords

  • Active learning
  • Monte-Carlo tree search
  • Upper Confidence Tree
  • e-science
  • experimental design
  • gene regulatory network
  • ordinary differential equations
  • parameter estimation

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