2403.04417
Promising and worth-to-try future directions for advancing state-of-the-art surrogates methods of agent-based models in social and health computational sciences
Atiyah Elsheikh
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- Sep 28, 2025, 12:56 AM
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Audit review
The PDF is an ad‑hoc perspective that lists four objectives for ABM surrogates—Accuracy, Robustness (multi‑output/time‑series), Reduction (equation‑based ML), and Reliability—and sketches candidate methods in Table 1, but it does not state precise mathematical claims or provide proofs (the text explicitly frames these as promising, worth‑to‑try directions) . The candidate solution formalizes each objective with clear assumptions and proves appropriate guarantees or counterexamples; its logic is generally sound, with only minor constant‑level tightening needed in the sub‑Gaussian vector‑norm concentration used in Task 1B/1C. The paper’s contribution is therefore incomplete (no theorems or proofs), while the model’s solution provides a rigorous instantiation aligned with the paper’s aims (including a precise reliability criterion and stability via Wasserstein‑Lipschitz analysis) .
Referee report (LaTeX)
\textbf{Recommendation:} major revisions \textbf{Journal Tier:} note/short/other \textbf{Justification:} This is a brief perspective that highlights promising directions but lacks formal definitions and results. To merit publication as a research article, the paper should sharpen the objectives into well-posed problems, provide either analytical guarantees or validated case studies, and define clear reliability metrics for surrogate analysis. The model solution shows that such formalization is feasible and would substantially strengthen the contribution.