A novel sensitivity analysis method for agent-based models stratifies in-silico tumor spheroid simulations

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00168v2
• Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2025 13:21:46 GMT
• Title: A novel sensitivity analysis method for agent-based models stratifies in-silico tumor spheroid simulations
• Authors: Edward H. Rohr, John T. Nardini,
• Abstract summary: Agent-based models (ABMs) are widely used in biology to understand how individual actions scale into emergent population behavior.<n>Modelers employ sensitivity analysis (SA) algorithms to quantify input parameters' impact on model outputs.<n>We develop the Simulate, Summarize, Reduce, Cluster, and Analyze (SSRCA) methodology, a machine-learning based pipeline designed to facilitate SA for ABMs.
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• Abstract: Agent-based models (ABMs) are widely used in biology to understand how individual actions scale into emergent population behavior. Modelers employ sensitivity analysis (SA) algorithms to quantify input parameters' impact on model outputs, however, it is hard to perform SA for ABMs due to their computational and complex nature. In this work, we develop the Simulate, Summarize, Reduce, Cluster, and Analyze (SSRCA) methodology, a machine-learning based pipeline designed to facilitate SA for ABMs. In particular, SSRCA can achieve the following tasks for ABMS: 1) identify sensitive model parameters, 2) reveal common output model patterns, and 3) determine which input parameter values generate these patterns. We use an example ABM of tumor spheroid growth to showcase how SSRCA provides similar SA results to the popular Sobol' Method while also identifying four common patterns from the ABM and the parameter regions that generate these outputs. This analysis could streamline data-driven tasks, such as parameter estimation, for ABMs by reducing parameter space. While we highlight these results with an ABM on tumor spheroid formation, the SSRCA methodology is broadly applicable to biological ABMs.

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