Learning Multi-valued Biological Models with Delayed Influence from Time-Series Observations
Tony Ribeiro, Morgan Magnin, Katsumi Inoue and Chiaki Sakama
14th IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA'15),
Miami, USA, December 2015.
Abstract
Delayed effects are important in modeling biological systems,
and timed Boolean networks have been proposed for such a framework.
Yet it is not an easy task to design such Boolean models with delays precisely.
Recently, an attempt to learn timed Boolean networks has been made in
(Ribeiro et al., 2015) in the framework of
learning state transition rules from time-series data.
However, this approach still has two limitations:
(1) The maximum delay has to be given as input to the algorithm;
(2) The possible value of each state is assumed to be Boolean, i.e., two-valued.
In this paper, we extend the previous learning mechanism to overcome these limitations.
We propose an algorithm to learn multi-valued biological models with delayed inference by
automatically tuning the delay. The delay is determined so as to minimally explain the
necessary influences. The merits of our approach is then verified on benchmarks coming from
the DREAM4 challenge.
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