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Reliable model selection in the presence of parameter non-identifiability

Yong See Foo , Torkel E. Loman , Alexander P. Browning , Ivo Siekmann , Ruth E. Baker , Jennifer A. Flegg This is my paper

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Adaptive multiple importance sampling provides reliable evidence estimates for model selection even with non-identifiable parameters.

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Mathematical models in biology often have parameters that cannot be uniquely identified from data, causing problems for standard model selection techniques. Deterministic methods for estimating model evidence can produce misleading results because they do not handle the resulting flat or multimodal posterior distributions well. The paper proposes a novel adaptive multiple importance sampling approach that is robust to these issues. Through ecological case studies, it shows that this method gives model selection outcomes similar to those from computationally intensive Markov chain Monte Carlo sampling but at much lower cost. This matters for making trustworthy inferences under model uncertainty in fields where non-identifiability is widespread.

Core claim

In the presence of parameter non-identifiability, deterministic evidence approximations violate their assumptions and yield inaccurate model selection. A novel implementation of adaptive multiple importance sampling for evidence estimation demonstrates robustness to non-identifiability. When applied to ecological case studies, the method produces model selection results comparable to Markov chain Monte Carlo methods while incurring substantially lower computational costs. Given the common occurrence of non-identifiability in mathematical biology, this offers a practical solution for reliable model selection.

What carries the argument

The adaptive multiple importance sampling procedure for evidence estimation, which dynamically adjusts proposal distributions to integrate over challenging posterior landscapes induced by non-identifiability.

Load-bearing premise

The adaptive multiple importance sampling procedure adequately explores and integrates over the posterior even when non-identifiability produces flat or multimodal surfaces without requiring problem-specific tuning.

What would settle it

A direct comparison on a known non-identifiable ecological model where the method's model rankings or evidence values diverge from those of extensive MCMC runs would falsify the robustness claim.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.19807 by Alexander P. Browning, Ivo Siekmann, Jennifer A. Flegg, Ruth E. Baker, Torkel E. Loman, Yong See Foo.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: Posterior samples obtained from one NUTS run consisting of five independent chains, under (A) the [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p010_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: Bayesian model selection results for the coral re-growth example obtained with each method. (A) Estima [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p011_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Comparison of evidence estimation methods for the insect life-stage example obtained with each method. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p013_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Model selection summaries obtained with each method for one of the insect life-stage datasets. (A) Model [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p014_4.png] view at source ↗
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Mathematical models are invaluable for understanding and predicting how biological systems behave, although their construction requires specifying mechanisms and relationships that are often not perfectly known. In the presence of multiple competing models, model uncertainty should be accounted for when performing inference based on available data. Bayesian model selection is a framework for testing mechanistic hypotheses and generating predictions under model uncertainty, which generally requires computation of the model evidence. In this work, we investigate the reliability of evidence computation methods when parameter non-identifiability -- the inability to distinguish between parameter values given available data -- is present, and find that deterministic evidence approximations can produce misleading model selection results because their underlying assumptions are violated. We propose a novel implementation of adaptive multiple importance sampling for evidence estimation, and demonstrate its robustness against non-identifiability. We use ecological case studies to demonstrate how simple model selection methods fail to produce accurate results, whereas our method yields model selection results that are comparable to those obtained by Markov chain Monte Carlo methods at substantially lower computational cost. Given the pervasiveness of parameter non-identifiability in mathematical biology, this work provides a practical approach to reliable model selection in the presence of poorly identified parameters.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript claims that deterministic evidence approximations for Bayesian model selection can produce misleading results in the presence of parameter non-identifiability. It proposes a novel implementation of adaptive multiple importance sampling (MIS) for evidence estimation that is robust to such non-identifiability, and uses ecological case studies to show that the method yields model selection results comparable to MCMC while incurring substantially lower computational cost.

Significance. If the adaptive MIS procedure reliably controls variance and produces consistent evidence estimates even on flat or multimodal posteriors without problem-specific tuning, the work would provide a practical, lower-cost alternative to MCMC for model selection in mathematical biology, where non-identifiability is common. The explicit comparison to established MCMC methods is a positive feature if the robustness claim is substantiated.

major comments (1)
  1. [Methods (adaptive MIS implementation)] Methods (adaptive MIS implementation): the adaptation of proposal distributions is not described in a manner that explicitly addresses flat or ridge-like posterior regions arising from non-identifiability. If the mechanism relies on empirical covariance or moment matching without regularization for unidentified directions, the importance weights can exhibit uncontrolled variance, which would invalidate the consistency of the evidence estimator and undermine the central robustness claim. This issue is load-bearing for the paper's main assertion.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: the claim of robustness is supported only by case studies and MCMC comparison, yet no error analysis, convergence diagnostics, or full methodological detail is referenced, leaving the verification of the central claim incomplete from the given text.
  2. [Case studies] Case studies section: additional quantitative diagnostics (e.g., effective sample size or variance estimates of the evidence) would help readers evaluate whether the adaptive MIS truly explores the unidentified directions adequately.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for their detailed and constructive report. The major comment raises an important point about the clarity of our adaptive MIS description with respect to non-identifiability. We address it directly below and will incorporate the requested clarifications in a revised manuscript.

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  1. Referee: Methods (adaptive MIS implementation): the adaptation of proposal distributions is not described in a manner that explicitly addresses flat or ridge-like posterior regions arising from non-identifiability. If the mechanism relies on empirical covariance or moment matching without regularization for unidentified directions, the importance weights can exhibit uncontrolled variance, which would invalidate the consistency of the evidence estimator and undermine the central robustness claim. This issue is load-bearing for the paper's main assertion.

    Authors: We agree that the current manuscript description of the adaptation step would benefit from greater explicitness on this point. The adaptive procedure maintains a mixture of proposal distributions whose parameters are updated iteratively using weighted empirical moments from accumulated samples. To prevent degeneracy along unidentified directions, each covariance update includes a fixed small regularization term (a multiple of the identity matrix) chosen to ensure positive-definiteness while preserving the dominant directions of posterior mass. This construction is intended to keep the importance weights from exhibiting uncontrolled growth, consistent with the variance analysis provided in Section 3. We will revise the Methods section to add a dedicated paragraph (and accompanying pseudocode) that explicitly describes the regularization step, its motivation from non-identifiability considerations, and the resulting bound on the second moment of the weights. We will also include a brief numerical illustration on a simple ridge-like posterior to demonstrate controlled variance. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity: novel adaptive MIS method validated empirically against external MCMC benchmarks

full rationale

The paper proposes a new adaptive multiple importance sampling procedure for evidence estimation and tests its robustness on ecological models with non-identifiability. Validation relies on direct numerical comparisons to standard MCMC (an externally established method) rather than any self-referential definitions, fitted inputs renamed as predictions, or load-bearing self-citations. No equations or claims reduce by construction to the authors' prior outputs; the central performance claims are supported by case-study results that remain falsifiable outside the paper's own fitted values.

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