Why we should use balances and machine learning to diagnose ionomes
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
The performance of a plant can be predicted from its ionome (concentration of elements in a living tissue) at a specific growth stage. Diagnoses have yet been based on simple statistical tools by relating a Boolean index to a vector of nutrient concentrations or to unstructured sets of nutrient ratios. We are now aware that compositional data such as nutrient concentrations should be carefully preprocessed before statistical modeling. Projecting concentrations to isometric log-ratios confer a Euclidean space to compositional data, similar to geographic coordinates. By comparing projected nutrient profiles to a geographical map, this perspective paper shows why univariate ranges and ellipsoids are less accurate to assess the nutrient status of a plant from its ionome compared to machine learning models. I propose an imbalance index defined as the Aitchison distance between an imbalanced specimen to the closest balanced point or region in a reference data set. I also propose and raise some limitations of a recommendation system where the ionome of a specimen is translated to its closest point or region where high plant performance is reported. The approach is applied to a data set comprising macro- and oligo-elements measured in blueberry leaves from Québec, Canada.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it