Data-driven Effective Modeling of Stochastic Chemical Reaction Networks
math.NA, cs.LG, cs.NA, math.DS
Submitted: 2026-08-26
Updated: 2026-08-26
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
The gist: The Stochastic Simulation Algorithm (SSA), widely considered an exact algorithm for stochastic chemical reaction networks, suffers from high computational cost.
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Abstract
The Stochastic Simulation Algorithm (SSA), widely considered an exact algorithm for stochastic chemical reaction networks, suffers from high computational cost. In this work, we propose a data-driven effective model that operates on a user-defined coarse time step independent of the underlying microscopic reaction-event scale. This is accomplished by directly approximating the finite-time transition kernel of the continuous-time Markov chain induced by SSA, using a generative machine learning model trained on short bursts of SSA simulation data. The trained model constructs a stochastic propagator that recursively generates statistically consistent trajectories at the constant coarse time step, with significantly reduced computational cost. In this paper, we employ conditional normalizing flow as the stochastic propagator. A comprehensive set of numerical examples is presented to demonstrate the accuracy and efficiency of the proposed method.
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