Ancestral Sequences Cannot be Accurately Reconstructed via Interpolation in a Variational Autoencoder's Latent Space
Evan Gorstein, Mengze Tang, Hailey Bruzzone, Claudia Solís‐Lemus
This study tests using a variational autoencoder to reconstruct ancestral sequences by interpolating in its latent space, finding it less accurate than standard methods despite containing evolutionary signal.
Bulletin of Mathematical Biology · Sep 19, 2026Peer-reviewedEvolutionary Biology