Abstract
The Moran process, as studied by Lieberman et al. [10], is a stochastic process modeling the spread of genetic mutations in populations. In this process, agents of a two-type population (i.e. mutants and residents) are associated with the vertices of a graph. Initially, only one vertex chosen uniformly at random (u.a.r.) is a mutant, with fitness \(r > 0\), while all other individuals are residents, with fitness 1. In every step, an individual is chosen with probability proportional to its fitness, and its state (mutant or resident) is passed on to a neighbor which is chosen u.a.r. In this paper, we introduce and study for the first time a generalization of the model of [10] by assuming that different types of individuals perceive the population through different graphs defined on the same vertex set, namely \(G_R = (V, E_R)\) for residents and \(G_M = (V, E_M)\) for mutants. In this model, we study the fixation probability, namely the probability that eventually only mutants remain in the population, for various pairs of graphs.
In particular, in the first part of the paper, we examine how known results from the original single-graph model of [10] can be transferred to our 2-graph model. In that direction, by using a Markov chain abstraction, we provide a generalization of the Isothermal Theorem of [10], that gives sufficient conditions for a pair of graphs to have fixation probability equal to the fixation probability of a pair of cliques; this corresponds to the absorption probability of a birth-death process with forward bias r.
In the second part of the paper, we give a 2-player strategic game view of the process where player payoffs correspond to fixation and/or extinction probabilities. In this setting, we attempt to identify best responses for each player. We give evidence that the clique is the most beneficial graph for both players, by proving bounds on the fixation probability when one of the two graphs is complete and the other graph belongs to various natural graph classes.
In the final part of the paper, we examine the possibility of efficient approximation of the fixation probability. Interestingly, we show that there is a pair of graphs for which the fixation probability is exponentially small. This implies that the fixation probability in the general case of an arbitrary pair of graphs cannot be approximated via a method similar to [2]. Nevertheless, we prove that, in the special case when the mutant graph is complete, an efficient approximation of the fixation probability is possible through an FPRAS which we describe.
P. Spirakis—The work of this author was partially supported by the ERC Project ALGAME and the EPSRC Project EP/P020372/1 “Algorithmic Aspects of Temporal Graphs”.
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We assume strong connectivity in order to avoid problematic cases where there is neither fixation nor extinction.
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An FPRAS for a function f that maps problem instances to numbers is a randomized algorithm with input X and parameter \(\epsilon > 0\), which is polynomial in |X| and \(\epsilon ^{-1}\) and outputs a random variable g, such that \(Pr\{(1-\epsilon )f(X) \le g(X) \le (1+\epsilon )f(X)\} \ge \frac{3}{4}\) [9].
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Melissourgos, T., Nikoletseas, S., Raptopoulos, C., Spirakis, P. (2018). Mutants and Residents with Different Connection Graphs in the Moran Process. In: Bender, M., Farach-Colton, M., Mosteiro, M. (eds) LATIN 2018: Theoretical Informatics. LATIN 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10807. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77404-6_57
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