DIMMS Lab @DIMMS_Lab
Disease-Informed Modelling, Methods & Systems Lab @YorkU 🧬 Mathematical biology | Disease modeling | ML for epidemiology 📍Toronto 🔗 https://t.co/ac9osM8DGn dimmslab.org Toronto, Ontario, Canada Joined February 2026-
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Physics-Informed Neural Networks often fail due to a hidden problem: gradient conflict. The data loss says "go right." The physics loss says "go left." Standard balancing makes it worse, equal opposing gradients cancel out completely. Training stalls. Our new method, CGGS, adds a sigmoid gate that detects conflict using cosine similarity and suppresses the physics signal only when it's fighting the data. Result: full epidemic curve recovered from just 20 noisy data points. 📄 arxiv.org/abs/2603.23799 🎥 Full video: youtu.be/bXUlmo1E64M @DIMMS_Lab @YorkUniversity #PINNs #DeepLearning #AI #MachineLearning #MathematicalBiology #Epidemiology #ComputationalScience
Our new publication proposes the use of modular arithmetic to define distinct seasonal transmission rates with a smooth transition. We believe this is the first kind. - Unlike sinusoidal models, which struggle with sharp transmission shifts, the modular approach captures abrupt changes linked to school terms and behavioral changes. - A two-stage optimization process was employed: a coarse grid search followed by stochastic refinement. - The model produced recurrent seasonal outbreaks, with effective reproduction numbers oscillating around the epidemic threshold. A joint work with Nickson Golooba at our @DIMMS_Lab Article link: aimspress.com/article/doi/10… Funding: @NSERC_CRSNG and @YorkUniversity's Small Research Grant.
📢 Two new publications from the lab! Congrats to @AndrewOmame, alongside lab director @woldie_assefa and other collaborators, on the two papers tackling Mpox vaccination strategies through mathematical modelling. One in @OneHealthJnl on vaccination and behavioural change in the DRC: 🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.oneh… Another in @BMC_series Infectious Diseases on pre-exposure vaccination and Mpox resurgence in Canada: 🔗 doi.org/10.1186/s12879… #Mpox #Vaccination #MathBiology #Epidemiology #YorkUniversity
🎉 DIMMS Lab is now on X! We're the Disease-Informed Modelling, Methods & Systems Lab at @YorkUniversity, researching: 🧬 Mathematical biology 🤖 Disease-informed neural networks 📊 Computational epidemiology Follow along for research updates, publications & more! 🔗 dimmslab.org #MathBiology #Epidemiology #Research
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