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ArticlePLoS computational biology2026

Collective posterior inference from highly variable empirical replicates.

Nadav Ben Nun, Saharon Rosset, David Gresham, Yoav Ram

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Article in PLoS computational biology, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Nadav Ben NunSchool of Zoology, Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.ORCID 0009-0003-3228-7720
Saharon RossetDepartment of Statistics, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.ORCID 0000-0002-4458-9545
David GreshamDepartment of Biology, Center for Genomics and Systems Biology, New York University, New York, United States of America of America.ORCID 0000-0002-4028-0364
Yoav RamSchool of Zoology, Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.ORCID 0000-0002-9653-4458

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AI and Data Science Center at Tel Aviv UniversityEdmond J. Safra Center for Bioinformatics at Tel Aviv UniversityMinerva Center for Live Emulation of Evolution in the LabUS–Israel Binational Science Foundation
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Abstract

High-throughput experimental platforms now routinely generate data from dozens or hundreds of independent observations. Simulation-based inference (SBI) offers a powerful framework for estimating model parameters from such complex datasets, but standard methods struggle to scale to the noisy multiple-replicates regime without incurring prohibitive computational costs or careful hyperparameter tuning. Here, we introduce a new method for fast and robust collective posterior inference from multiple independent replicates using a robust product-of-experts aggregation scheme that automatically mitigates the influence of outliers. Evaluating it on synthetic and empirical evolutionary datasets, we find it achieves state-of-the-art estimation accuracy and computational efficiency, including inference from noisy observations. Our method is compatible with any SBI framework, providing a scalable, plug-and-play solution for inference from noisy multiple-replicate datasets.

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Computational BiologyAlgorithmsBayes TheoremComputer Simulation

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PMID42579707
PMCPMC13475975

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