Abstract
AbstractAccurately estimating biological variables of interest, such as parameters of demographic models, is a key problem in evolutionary genetics. Likelihood-based and likelihood-free methods both typically use only limited genetic information, such as carefully chosen summary statistics. Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) trained on genotype matrices can incorporate a great deal more information, and have been shown to have high accuracy for inferring parameters such as recombination rates and population sizes, when evaluated using simulations. However these methods are typically framed as regression or classification problems, and it is not straightforward to ensure that the training data adequately model the empirical data on which they are subsequently applied. It has recently been shown that generative adversarial networks (GANs) can be used to iteratively tune parameter values until simulations match a given target dataset. Here, we investigate an adversarial architecture for discriminator-based inference, which iteratively improves the sampling distribution for training the discriminator CNN via Monte Carlo density estimation. We show that this method produces parameter estimates with excellent agreement to simulated data. We developeddinf, a modular Python package for discriminator-based inference that incorporates this method, and is available fromhttps://github.com/RacimoLab/dinf/.
Publisher
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
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