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ArticleMachine learning: science and technology2025

Generative diffusion model surrogates for mechanistic agent-based biological models.

Tien Comlekoglu, J Quetzalcoatl Toledo-Marín, Douglas W DeSimone, Shayn M Peirce, Geoffrey Fox, James A Glazier

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Article in Machine learning: science and technology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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  6. Polygrammar: Grammar for Digital Polymer Representation and Generation.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2022
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Tien ComlekogluDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United States of America.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8314-2703
J Quetzalcoatl Toledo-MarínTRIUMF, Vancouver, BC, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6212-1033
Douglas W DeSimoneDepartment of Cell Biology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United States of America.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1926-1588
Shayn M PeirceDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United States of America.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5857-5606
Geoffrey FoxDepartment of Computer Science, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United States of America.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1017-1391
James A GlazierDepartment of Intelligent Systems Engineering, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, United States of America.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3634-190X

Funding

MEDICAL SCIENTIST TRAINING PROGRAMT32GM007267 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA CHARLOTTESVILLE · PI GARCIA-BLANCO, MARIANO A. · 1985 to 2024
$13.4M
Cell-Cell and Cell-Matrix Interactions in MorphogenesisR35GM131865 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA · PI DESIMONE, DOUGLAS W. · 2019 to 2023
$2.2M
Medical Scientist Training ProgramT32GM156694 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA · PI Mariano A. Garcia-Blanco, Judith A Woodfolk · 2025 to 2026
$1.6M
Dissemination of libRoadRunner and CompuCell3DU24EB028887 · NIBIB · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI GLAZIER, JAMES ALEXANDER, SAURO, HERBERT M. · 2019 to 2023
$1.5M
Interdisciplinary Training in Systems & Biomolecular Data ScienceT32GM145443 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA · PI Kevin A Janes, Jason Papin · 2022 to 2026
$1.5M
NIBIB NIH HHS U24 EB028887NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM131865NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM007267NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM145443NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM156694
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Mechanistic, multicellular, agent-based models are commonly used to investigate tissue, organ, and organism-scale biology at single-cell resolution. The Cellular-Potts Model (CPM) is a powerful and popular framework for developing and interrogating these models. CPMs become computationally expensive at large space- and time- scales making application and investigation of developed models difficult. Surrogate models may allow for the accelerated evaluation of CPMs of complex biological systems. However, the stochastic nature of these models means each set of parameters may give rise to different model configurations, complicating surrogate model development. In this work, we leverage denoising diffusion probabilistic models (DDPMs) to train a generative AI surrogate of a CPM used to investigate

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agent-based modeldenoising diffusion modeldenoising diffusion probabilistic modeldigital twingenerativevasculogenesis

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PMCPMC12570967

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