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Area of Science:

  • Population genetics
  • Machine learning
  • Computational biology

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  • Supervised machine learning methods for population genetic inference rely on simulated data.
  • These methods can fail if simulated data does not match real-world data, a problem known as simulation mis-specification.

Approach:

  • Framed simulation mis-specification as a domain adaptation problem.
  • Applied a gradient reversal layer (GRL) based domain adaptation technique.
  • Focused on deep-learning methods SIA (selection inference) and ReLERNN (recombination rate inference).

Key Points:

  • Domain adaptation substantially mitigates simulation mis-specification effects.
  • The domain adaptive framework for SIA also compensates for ancestral recombination graph (ARG) inference errors.
  • Developed a domain-adaptive SIA (dadaSIA) model for improved selection coefficient estimation.

Conclusions:

  • Domain adaptation is a powerful technique for improving population genetic inference from simulated data.
  • The dadaSIA model provides more accurate selection coefficient estimates in human populations.
  • Anticipate broad applicability of domain adaptation in machine learning for population genetics.