Structural Inference with Dynamics Encoding and Partial Correlation Coefficients

Aoran Wang, Jun Pang

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Keywords: Structural Inference, AI4Science

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Abstract:

This paper introduces a novel approach to structural inference, combining a variational dynamics encoder with partial correlation coefficients.
In contrast to prior methods, our approach leverages variational inference to encode node dynamics within latent variables, and structural reconstruction relies on the calculation of partial correlation coefficients derived from these latent variables.
This unique design endows our method with scalability and extends its applicability to both one-dimensional and multi-dimensional feature spaces.
Furthermore, by reorganizing latent variables according to temporal steps, our approach can effectively reconstruct directed graph structures.
We validate our method through extensive experimentation on twenty datasets from a benchmark dataset and biological networks.
Our results showcase the superior scalability, accuracy, and versatility of our proposed approach compared to existing methods.
Moreover, experiments conducted on noisy data affirm the robustness of our method.

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Primary Area: applications to physical sciences (physics, chemistry, biology, etc.)

Submission Number: 5343