Simulation and inference algorithms for stochastic biochemical reaction networks: from basic concepts to state-of-the-art

DJ Warne, RE Baker… - Journal of the Royal …, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Stochasticity is a key characteristic of intracellular processes such as gene regulation and
chemical signalling. Therefore, characterizing stochastic effects in biochemical systems is …

Multilevel monte carlo methods

MB Giles - Acta numerica, 2015 - cambridge.org
Monte Carlo methods are a very general and useful approach for the estimation of
expectations arising from stochastic simulation. However, they can be computationally …

Goal-oriented adaptive finite element multilevel Monte Carlo with convergence rates

J Beck, Y Liu, E von Schwerin, R Tempone - Computer Methods in Applied …, 2022 - Elsevier
In this study, we present an adaptive multilevel Monte Carlo (AMLMC) algorithm for
approximating deterministic, real-valued, bounded linear functionals that depend on the …

Importance sampling for a robust and efficient multilevel Monte Carlo estimator for stochastic reaction networks

C Ben Hammouda, N Ben Rached, R Tempone - Statistics and Computing, 2020 - Springer
Abstract The multilevel Monte Carlo (MLMC) method for continuous-time Markov chains, first
introduced by Anderson and Higham (SIAM Multiscal Model Simul 10 (1): 146–179, 2012) …

Multilevel hybrid split-step implicit tau-leap

C Ben Hammouda, A Moraes, R Tempone - Numerical Algorithms, 2017 - Springer
In biochemically reactive systems with small copy numbers of one or more reactant
molecules, the dynamics is dominated by stochastic effects. To approximate those systems …

Learning-based importance sampling via stochastic optimal control for stochastic reaction networks

C Ben Hammouda, N Ben Rached, R Tempone… - Statistics and …, 2023 - Springer
We explore efficient estimation of statistical quantities, particularly rare event probabilities,
for stochastic reaction networks. Consequently, we propose an importance sampling (IS) …

An efficient forward–reverse expectation-maximization algorithm for statistical inference in stochastic reaction networks

C Bayer, A Moraes, R Tempone… - Stochastic Analysis and …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
In this work, we present an extension of the forward–reverse representation introduced by
Bayer and Schoenmakers (Annals of Applied Probability, 24 (5): 1994–2032, 2014) to the …

Non-nested adaptive timesteps in multilevel Monte Carlo computations

MB Giles, C Lester, J Whittle - Monte Carlo and Quasi-Monte Carlo …, 2016 - Springer
This paper shows that it is relatively easy to incorporate adaptive timesteps into multilevel
Monte Carlo simulations without violating the telescoping sum on which multilevel Monte …

[HTML][HTML] Automated importance sampling via optimal control for stochastic reaction networks: A Markovian projection–based approach

CB Hammouda, NB Rached, R Tempone… - Journal of Computational …, 2024 - Elsevier
We propose a novel alternative approach to our previous work (Ben Hammouda et al., 2023)
to improve the efficiency of Monte Carlo (MC) estimators for rare event probabilities for …

Multiscale simulation of stochastic reaction-diffusion networks

S Engblom, A Hellander, P Lötstedt - Stochastic Processes, Multiscale …, 2017 - Springer
The most commonly employed spatial stochastic simulation methods for biochemical
systems in molecular systems biology are reviewed from a multiscale perspective. Three …