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ReviewReports on progress in physics. Physical Society (Great Britain)2022

Information geometry for multiparameter models: new perspectives on the origin of simplicity.

Katherine N Quinn, Michael C Abbott, Mark K Transtrum, Benjamin B Machta, James P Sethna

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Review in Reports on progress in physics. Physical Society (Great Britain), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
7citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
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  3. How Occam's razor guides human decision-making.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025
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  5. The training process of many deep networks explores the same low-dimensional manifold.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024
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  7. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Katherine N QuinnCenter for the Physics of Biological Function, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States of America.ORCID 0000-0002-8601-2912
Michael C AbbottDepartment of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States of America.ORCID 0000-0003-1091-6357
Mark K TranstrumDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, United States of America.ORCID 0000-0001-9529-9399
Benjamin B MachtaDepartment of Physics and Systems Biology Institute, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States of America.ORCID 0000-0001-9065-614X
James P SethnaDepartment of Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States of America.ORCID 0000-0001-9126-0892

Funding

Physics and Systems Biology of Cellular DomainsR35GM138341 · NIGMS · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI MACHTA, BENJAMIN BROOKS · 2020 to 2024
$2.0M
NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM138341
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Complex models in physics, biology, economics, and engineering are often

Indexed as

Models, StatisticalPhysicsBayes TheoremEngineeringBayesiandifferential geometryemergencehyperribboninformation geometrymodel reductionprior

Identifiers

PMID36576176
PMCPMC10018491

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