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Is ACCTRAN better than DELTRAN?

2008· letter· en· W2165094560 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueCladistics · 2008
Typeletter
Languageen
FieldBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
TopicGenomics and Phylogenetic Studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
FundersJavna Agencija za Raziskovalno Dejavnost RSKillam Trusts
KeywordsCharacter (mathematics)Phylogenetic treeCharacter evolutionFeature (linguistics)Transformation (genetics)Tree (set theory)MathematicsEvolutionary biologyArtificial intelligenceComputer scienceBiologyAlgorithmCombinatoricsGeneticsCladePhilosophy

Abstract

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When parsimony ancestral character reconstruction is ambiguous, it is often resolved in favour of the more complex character state. Hence, secondary loss (secondary "absence") of a complex feature is favoured over parallel gains of that feature as this preserves the stronger hypothesis of homology. We believe that such asymmetry in character state complexity is important information for understanding character evolution in general. However, we here point out an inappropriate link that is commonly made between this approach and the accelerated transformation (ACCTRAN) algorithm. In ACCTRAN, changes are assigned along branches of a phylogenetic tree as close to the root as possible. This has been taken to imply that ACCTRAN will minimize hypotheses of parallel origins of complex traits and thus that ACCTRAN is philosophically better justified than the alternatives, such as delayed transformation (DELTRAN), where changes are assigned along branches as close to the tips as possible. We provide simple examples to show that such views are mistaken and that neither ACCTRAN nor DELTRAN consistently minimize parallel gain of complex traits. We therefore do not see theoretical grounds for favouring the popular ACCTRAN algorithm. © The Willi Hennig Society 2008.

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Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Commentary · Consensus signal: Commentary
Teacher disagreement score0.188
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.021
GPT teacher head0.236
Teacher spread0.216 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it