Dynamic maximum entropy provides accurate approximation of structured population dynamics
Bodova K, Szep E, Barton NH. 2021. Dynamic maximum entropy provides accurate approximation of structured population dynamics. PLoS Computational Biology. 17(12), e1009661.
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Realistic models of biological processes typically involve interacting components on multiple scales, driven by changing environment and inherent stochasticity. Such models are often analytically and numerically intractable. We revisit a dynamic maximum entropy method that combines a static maximum entropy with a quasi-stationary approximation. This allows us to reduce stochastic non-equilibrium dynamics expressed by the Fokker-Planck equation to a simpler low-dimensional deterministic dynamics, without the need to track microscopic details. Although the method has been previously applied to a few (rather complicated) applications in population genetics, our main goal here is to explain and to better understand how the method works. We demonstrate the usefulness of the method for two widely studied stochastic problems, highlighting its accuracy in capturing important macroscopic quantities even in rapidly changing non-stationary conditions. For the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process, the method recovers the exact dynamics whilst for a stochastic island model with migration from other habitats, the approximation retains high macroscopic accuracy under a wide range of scenarios in a dynamic environment.
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2021-12-01
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PLoS Computational Biology
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Computational resources for the study were provided by the Institute of Science and Technology, Austria.
KB received funding from the Scientific Grant Agency of the Slovak Republic under the Grants Nos. 1/0755/19 and 1/0521/20.
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12
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e1009661
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Bodova K, Szep E, Barton NH. Dynamic maximum entropy provides accurate approximation of structured population dynamics. PLoS Computational Biology. 2021;17(12). doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1009661
Bodova, K., Szep, E., & Barton, N. H. (2021). Dynamic maximum entropy provides accurate approximation of structured population dynamics. PLoS Computational Biology. Public Library of Science. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1009661
Bodova, Katarina, Eniko Szep, and Nicholas H Barton. “Dynamic Maximum Entropy Provides Accurate Approximation of Structured Population Dynamics.” PLoS Computational Biology. Public Library of Science, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1009661.
K. Bodova, E. Szep, and N. H. Barton, “Dynamic maximum entropy provides accurate approximation of structured population dynamics,” PLoS Computational Biology, vol. 17, no. 12. Public Library of Science, 2021.
Bodova K, Szep E, Barton NH. 2021. Dynamic maximum entropy provides accurate approximation of structured population dynamics. PLoS Computational Biology. 17(12), e1009661.
Bodova, Katarina, et al. “Dynamic Maximum Entropy Provides Accurate Approximation of Structured Population Dynamics.” PLoS Computational Biology, vol. 17, no. 12, e1009661, Public Library of Science, 2021, doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1009661.
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