Machine Generalize Learning in Agent-Based Models: Going Beyond Surrogate Models for Calibration in ABMs

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07013v1
• Date: Sat, 06 Sep 2025 18:28:00 GMT
• Title: Machine Generalize Learning in Agent-Based Models: Going Beyond Surrogate Models for Calibration in ABMs
• Authors: Sima Najafzadehkhoei, George Vega Yon, Bernardo Modenesi, Derek S. Meyer,
• Abstract summary: Calibrating agent-based epidemic models are computationally demanding.<n>We present a supervised machine learning calibrator that learns the inverse mapping from epidemic time series to SIR parameters.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Calibrating agent-based epidemic models is computationally demanding. We present a supervised machine learning calibrator that learns the inverse mapping from epidemic time series to SIR parameters. A three-layer bidirectional LSTM ingests 60-day incidence together with population size and recovery rate, and outputs transmission probability, contact rate, and R0. Training uses a composite loss with an epidemiology-motivated consistency penalty that encourages R0 \* recovery rate to equal transmission probability \* contact rate. In a 1000-scenario simulation study, we compare the calibrator with Approximate Bayesian Computation (likelihood-free MCMC). The method achieves lower error across all targets (MAE: R0 0.0616 vs 0.275; transmission 0.0715 vs 0.128; contact 1.02 vs 4.24), produces tighter predictive intervals with near nominal coverage, and reduces wall clock time from 77.4 s to 2.35 s per calibration. Although contact rate and transmission probability are partially nonidentifiable, the approach reproduces epidemic curves more faithfully than ABC, enabling fast and practical calibration. We evaluate it on SIR agent based epidemics generated with epiworldR and provide an implementation in R.

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