Predicting Covid-19 pandemic waves with biologically and behaviorally informed universal differential equations

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During the COVID-19 pandemic, it became clear that pandemic waves and population responses were locked in a mutual feedback loop in a classic example of a coupled behavior-disease system. We demonstrate for the first time that universal differential equation (UDE) models are able to extract this interplay from data. We develop a UDE model for COVID-19 and test its ability to make predictions of second pandemic waves. We find that UDEs are capable of learning coupled behavior-disease dynamics and predicting second waves in a variety of populations, provided they are supplied with learning biases describing simple assumptions about disease transmission and population response. Though not yet suitable for deployment as a policy-guiding tool, our results demonstrate potential benefits, drawbacks, and useful techniques when applying universal differential equations to coupled systems.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:10

Enthalten in:

Heliyon - 10(2024), 4 vom: 29. Feb., Seite e25363

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Kuwahara, Bruce [VerfasserIn]
Bauch, Chris T [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Compartmental model
Covid-19
Journal Article
Machine learning
Physics informed neural networks

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Date Revised 20.02.2024

published: Electronic-eCollection

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e25363

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM368602761