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48 results for microbial communities

Method improves microbial biomass yield estimation from noisy data.

problem Estimating microbial biomass yields from noisy cell counts and substrate measurements.
method Probabilistic macrochemical modeling to relax cell weight assumptions and improve robustness.
result Model provides accurate uncertainty estimates of key parameters.

Microbes are everywhere, including in and on our bodies, and have been shown to play key roles in a variety of prevalent human diseases. Consequently, there has been intense interest in the design of bacteriotherapies or "bugs as drugs," which are communities of bacteria administered to patients for specific therapeuti…

2018-05-11abs ↗pdf ↗

A new method avoids overfitting in network reconstruction by using the minimum description length principle.

problem Determining the optimal model complexity in network reconstruction to prevent overfitting.
method Hierarchical Bayesian inference and weight quantization based on the minimum description length principle.
result The method yields increased accuracy in reconstructing both artificial and empirical networks.

Many complex ecosystems, such as those formed by multiple microbial taxa, involve intricate interactions amongst various sub-communities. The most basic relationships are frequently modeled as co-occurrence networks in which the nodes represent the various players in the community and the weighted edges encode levels o…

2016-05-16abs ↗pdf ↗

New model identifies microbial subcommunities robustly, accounting for cross-sample heterogeneity.

problem Inference in LDA is sensitive to the number of subcommunities and often creates artificial ones.
method Incorporates logistic-tree normal (LTN) model into LDA to account for cross-sample heterogeneity.
result Restores robustness of inference and identifies meaningful subcommunities.

The present study provides a comparative assessment of non-invasive sensors as means of estimating the microbial contamination and time-on-shelf (i.e. storage time) of leafy green vegetables, using a novel unified spectra analysis workflow. Two fresh ready-to-eat green salads were used in the context of this study for …

2019-03-21abs ↗pdf ↗

Machine learning predicts plant phenotypes from soil microbiome data.

problem Predicting plant phenotypes from soil microbiome data.
method Two models (random forest and Bayesian neural network) were used to predict plant phenotypes from soil properties and microbial population density.
result Human decisions and normalization strategies significantly impact model performance.

Metagenomics characterizes the taxonomic diversity of microbial communities by sequencing DNA directly from an environmental sample. One of the main challenges in metagenomics data analysis is the binning step, where each sequenced read is assigned to a taxonomic clade. Due to the large volume of metagenomics datasets,…

2015-05-26abs ↗pdf ↗

New method learns from non-uniform data and partial physical knowledge.

problem Identifying dynamical systems from non-uniformly sampled data.
method Physics-informed neural networks integrating numerical integration methods.
result Learning unknown kinetic rates and estimating parameters from non-uniform data.

CARE method estimates precision matrix for compositional data, achieving optimality in high dimensions.

problem Challenges in inferring conditional dependence relationships in high-dimensional compositional data.
method Composition adaptive regularized estimation (CARE) method for sparse basis precision matrix.
result CARE estimator achieves minimax optimality in high dimensions, performing as well as if the basis were observed.

An important problem in forensic analyses is identifying the provenance of materials at a crime scene, such as biological material on a piece of clothing. This procedure, known as geolocation, is conventionally guided by expert knowledge of the biological evidence and therefore tends to be application-specific, labor-i…

2019-05-28abs ↗pdf ↗

A new framework maximizes influence spread in social networks by accounting for inter-community diffusion.

problem Real-world social networks have inter-community influence that is often overlooked in community-based IM approaches.
method Community-IM++ uses a heuristic based on community-based diffusion degree and progressive budgeting to model and prioritize cross-community diffusion.
result Community-IM++ achieves near-greedy influence spread at up to 100 times lower runtime than existing methods.

We introduce the concept of community trees that summarizes topological structures within a network. A community tree is a tree structure representing clique communities from the clique percolation method (CPM). The community tree also generates a persistent diagram. Community trees and persistent diagrams reveal topol…

2017-10-11abs ↗pdf ↗

We introduce a new paradigm that is important for community detection in the realm of network analysis. Networks contain a set of strong, dominant communities, which interfere with the detection of weak, natural community structure. When most of the members of the weak communities also belong to stronger communities, t…

2017-02-24abs ↗pdf ↗

Study exact community detection in k-community Gaussian mixtures with different intensities.

problem Community detection in k-community Gaussian mixtures with varying intensities.
method Explicitly find the threshold for exact recovery of maximum likelihood estimation.
result Threshold for exact recovery of maximum likelihood estimation is identified.

The paper introduces a method for detecting principal communities and embedding vertices.

problem Detecting and embedding vertices in graphs with community structure.
method Principal graph encoder embedding method that detects principal communities and produces vertex embeddings.
result The method successfully detects principal communities and produces accurate vertex embeddings.

Improved distributed learning with reduced communication costs.

problem Efficient communication in resource-constrained environments for distributed learning.
method Proposed a cost-effective partial communication protocol.
result Communication cost is reduced to O(logT)O(\log T), improving significantly on full communication.

Statistical estimates can often be improved by fusion of data from several different sources. One example is so-called ensemble methods which have been successfully applied in areas such as machine learning for classification and clustering. In this paper, we present an ensemble method to improve community detection by…

2013-09-01abs ↗pdf ↗

MACC learns communication protocols by adapting counterfactual reasoning.

problem Credit assignment and non-stationarity in communication environments.
method Adapts counterfactual reasoning to overcome credit assignment and uses action policy and Q-function of other agents to handle non-stationarity.
result MACC outperforms state-of-the-art baselines in four scenarios.

Pipeline integrates cross-sectional and longitudinal multi-omics data for IBD research.

problem Integrating diverse data types from the same individuals for disease understanding.
method Statistical and deep learning methods for variable selection, feature extraction, and joint integration.
result Identified microbial pathways, metabolites, and genes discriminating IBD status.

A framework for multi-agent communication over noisy channels in reinforcement learning.

problem Effective communication between multiple agents in a noisy environment.
method A novel multi-agent partially observable Markov decision process (MA-POMDP) framework considering noisy communication channels.
result Jointly learned policies outperform separate learning of communication and decision making.

Unified method for discovering biclusters and triclusters in longitudinal data.

problem High-dimensional, sparsely sampled, irregularly observed longitudinal data.
method Tri-SfSVD, a unified sparse functional Singular Value Decomposition framework.
result Identified localized structures at the subject, subject-feature, and subject-feature-time levels.

Real-world networks usually have community structure, that is, nodes are grouped into densely connected communities. Community detection is one of the most popular and best-studied research topics in network science and has attracted attention in many different fields, including computer science, statistics, social sci…

2018-08-26abs ↗pdf ↗

GRADE models evolving graph dynamics by learning node and community representations.

problem Lack of tools to study temporal community dynamics in evolving graphs.
method GRADE is a probabilistic model that learns evolving node and community representations via a random walk prior and variational inference.
result GRADE outperforms baselines in dynamic link prediction and dynamic community detection.

Paper studies fundamental limits of communication in distributed learning.

problem Communication efficiency in model aggregation for distributed learning.
method Rate-Distortion approach to model aggregation as a vector Gaussian CEO problem.
result Derives rate region bound and sum-rate-distortion function for model aggregation.

Study recovers community structure from coarse graph measurements.

problem Community recovery from low-resolution graph measurements.
method Formalized coarsening process of graph measurements, developed conditions for perfect recovery.
result Simple and closed-form asymptotic conditions for perfect recovery of coarse graph communities.

New algorithm reduces communication traffic in decentralized learning.

problem Communication bottleneck in decentralized learning for low-bandwidth workers.
method Sparsification and adaptive peer selection to reduce communication traffic.
result Significant reduction in communication traffic compared to existing methods.

I2C enables agents to learn efficient communication without redundancy.

problem Redundant broadcast communication in multi-agent cooperation.
method I2C learns a prior for agent-agent communication via causal inference and reinforcement learning.
result I2C reduces communication overhead and improves multi-agent cooperative performance.

Paper explores exact recovery of communities in weighted graphs using Gaussian and exponential distributions.

problem Exact recovery of communities in weighted graphs with Gaussian and exponential distributions.
method Introduces a new semi-metric to describe conditions for exact recovery and analyzes conditions for both complete and incomplete graphs.
result Necessary and sufficient conditions for exact recovery are asymptotically tight and applicable to both complete and incomplete graphs.

We investigate the community structure of the global ownership network of transnational corporations. We find a pronounced organization in communities that cannot be explained by randomness. Despite the global character of this network, communities reflect first of all the geographical location of firms, while the indu…

2013-01-11abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper proposes a method to detect fair communities in graphs considering demographic attributes.

problem Inconsistent community detection violates fairness constraints for nodes with demographic attributes.
method Develops an 1\ell_1-regularized pseudo-likelihood approach for fair graphical model selection.
result The method ensures demographic groups are fairly represented within detected communities.

Generative model for creating graphs with new communities.

problem Generating graphs with a new community structure.
method Fit Gaussian mixture model to latent space data and add new clusters based on MDL principle.
result Empirically demonstrated effectiveness of GCA for generating graphs with new community structures.

Study examines Fed's pandemic communication strategies.

problem Analyzing Federal Reserve's communication during the COVID-19 pandemic.
method Sentiment analysis, topic modeling, comparative analysis of previous crises.
result Fed's communication during the pandemic focused on financial stability, market volatility, social welfare, and unconventional monetary policy.