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PRUNING-CALIB · Peer-reviewed

Can pruning improve calibration for agent-based models?

Tests whether pruning — discarding unpromising parameter sets partway through a calibration run — can speed up HPVsim calibration without degrading fit quality.

Key findings

  • Pruning (the early termination of unpromising calibration trials) can notably speed up calibration of agent-based models, in many cases without compromising on calibration quality.

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Themes
Calibration methods
Setting
Cross-cutting / methods