Our paper at ICML 2023 workshops

Our paper, Differentiable Search of Evolutionary Trees from Leaves, was accepted to two workshops at ICML 2023! 🎉

We introduce a differentiable approach to searching for phylogenetic trees. We optimize the tree and ancestral sequences to reduce the total evolutionary steps (parsimony cost).

Workshop presentations

• Friday, July 28, 2023: Differentiable Almost Everything (DiffAE).
• Saturday, July 29, 2023: Sampling and Optimization in Discrete Space (SODS).

Paper and resources

• Read the paper on bioRxiv
• View the OpenReview submission
• Download the poster (PDF)
• Explore the code on GitHub
• Read the announcement thread

A closer look at the method

Update — September 19, 2023: Eric J. Ma wrote a detailed explanation of our paper’s key contribution: making the trees and sequences differentiable. His journal club article walks through the method.