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48 results for Predictive coding

Characterization of a patient clinical phenotype is central to biomedical informatics. ICD codes, assigned to inpatient encounters by coders, is important for population health and cohort discovery when clinical information is limited. While ICD codes are assigned to patients by professionals trained and certified in c…

2018-11-28abs ↗pdf ↗

A new predictive coding algorithm improves machine learning performance.

problem Improving performance of variational inference algorithms in high-dimensional, structured problems.
method Divide-and-Conquer Predictive Coding (DCPC) that respects generative model correlation structure and performs maximum-likelihood updates.
result DCPC achieves better numerical performance and accurate inference in structured generative models.

This work tackles runtime complexity prediction for code, using machine learning and a new dataset.

problem Predicting runtime complexity of code is hard and mathematically impossible.
method Modelled as a machine learning task, using feature engineering and code embeddings, with a new dataset.
result Achieved state-of-the-art results in runtime complexity prediction.

Study investigates predictive coding models for phonemic learning.

problem Understanding how predictive coding models generalize to different languages and dataset sizes.
method Investigated Autoregressive Predictive Coding and Contrastive Predictive Coding models in phoneme discrimination tasks for two languages with varying dataset sizes.
result Contrastive Predictive Coding model converges rapidly and outperforms Autoregressive Predictive Coding on both languages.

In this paper we study output coding for multi-label prediction. For a multi-label output coding to be discriminative, it is important that codewords for different label vectors are significantly different from each other. In the meantime, unlike in traditional coding theory, codewords in output coding are to be predic…

2012-06-27abs ↗pdf ↗

PredNet, a deep predictive coding network developed by Lotter et al., combines a biologically inspired architecture based on the propagation of prediction error with self-supervised representation learning in video. While the architecture has drawn a lot of attention and various extensions of the model exist, there is …

2019-06-14abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper relaxes constraints on predictive coding models, making them more biologically plausible.

problem Neurophysiological models of predictive coding are not fully biologically plausible.
method The paper relaxes constraints on standard predictive coding algorithms by removing neurally implausible features.
result The removal of neurally implausible features does not significantly affect learning performance.

Unsupervised neural models predict brain activity better than supervised methods.

problem Understanding how the brain represents visual information without direct supervision.
method Built upon PredNet, used RSA to compare PredNet representations to fMRI and MEG data.
result Unsupervised models trained to predict video frames outperform supervised image classification models in predicting brain activity.

Bayesian Predictive Coding improves deep learning uncertainty quantification.

problem Limitations of maximum a posteriori and maximum likelihood estimates in predictive coding.
method Developed Bayesian Predictive Coding (BPC) that estimates a posterior distribution over network parameters.
result BPC offers comparable uncertainty quantification to existing methods in Bayesian deep learning and improves convergence properties.

Paper uses AI to predict medications from medical codes, improving accuracy in healthcare.

problem Predicting medications from incomplete or incorrect medical codes is challenging.
method Robust Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) with decay mechanism and noise injection.
result The method accurately predicts medication orders from contaminated medical codes.

We present a neural model for representing snippets of code as continuous distributed vectors ("code embeddings"). The main idea is to represent a code snippet as a single fixed-length code vector\textit{code vector}, which can be used to predict semantic properties of the snippet. This is performed by decomposing code to a col…

2018-03-26abs ↗pdf ↗

The recent use of `Big Code' with state-of-the-art deep learning methods offers promising avenues to ease program source code writing and correction. As a first step towards automatic code repair, we implemented a graph neural network model that predicts token types for Javascript programs. The predictions achieve an a…

2019-05-16abs ↗pdf ↗

High-throughput machine learning predicts thousands of diagnosis codes with high accuracy.

problem Predicting disease risk for thousands of diagnosis codes at various time points.
method Training machine learning algorithms on EHR data to predict diagnosis risks.
result Achieved AUCs of 0.803 and 0.758 for 1 and 6-month predictions, respectively.

Paper proposes a novel approach to improve spatiotemporal precipitation forecasts.

problem Improving accuracy of spatiotemporal precipitation forecasts for flood damage mitigation.
method Introduces a rain-code fusion approach using ConvLSTM and multi-frame fusion for spatiotemporal precipitation code-to-code forecasting.
result Demonstrates enhanced accuracy in precipitation forecasts beyond 3 timesteps using the rain-code fusion.

The goal of predictive sparse coding is to learn a representation of examples as sparse linear combinations of elements from a dictionary, such that a learned hypothesis linear in the new representation performs well on a predictive task. Predictive sparse coding algorithms recently have demonstrated impressive perform…

2012-02-18abs ↗pdf ↗

A new approach predicts next observations without explicit decoding for better control.

problem High-dimensional observations and unknown dynamics in real-world control tasks.
method Proposes a novel information-theoretic LCE approach using predictive coding to develop a decoder-free model.
result The model reliably learns a controllable latent space leading to superior performance.

Proposes a method to boost deep reinforcement learning with sparse rewards.

problem Challenges in learning complex behaviors with long horizons and sparse rewards.
method Predictive coding for reward shaping.
result Achieves better learning by providing reward signals that understand environment dynamics and emphasize useful features.

Clinical notes are text documents that are created by clinicians for each patient encounter. They are typically accompanied by medical codes, which describe the diagnosis and treatment. Annotating these codes is labor intensive and error prone; furthermore, the connection between the codes and the text is not annotated…

2018-02-15abs ↗pdf ↗

Embeddings of lab test codes improve mortality prediction and preserve ordinality.

problem Improving mortality prediction using lab test embeddings.
method Training embeddings for LOINC codes and their concatenations with abnormality symbols, evaluating performance on mortality prediction tasks.
result Embeddings of lab test codes improve mortality prediction and preserve ordinality.

Improves code2vec for Java classes by obfuscating variable names.

problem Code2vec's reliance on variable names makes it vulnerable to typos and attacks.
method Obfuscate variable names during code2vec training and aggregate method embeddings for class-level predictions.
result Obfuscated variable names improve model's robustness and accuracy.

AI agent predicts industry and product/service codes for companies.

problem Manual curation of company data is expensive and prone to errors.
method Hierarchical multi-class industry code classifier with multi-label product/service code classifier.
result High accuracy (92-96%) achieved with limited labeled data.

We propose a novel neural sequence prediction method based on \textit{error-correcting output codes} that avoids exact softmax normalization and allows for a tradeoff between speed and performance. Instead of minimizing measures between the predicted probability distribution and true distribution, we use error-correcti…

2019-01-21abs ↗pdf ↗

Enhances medical code predictions for multi-morbidity patients using text classification.

problem Improving accuracy in predicting medical codes for patients with multiple illnesses.
method Used machine learning techniques, including multi-label medical text classification, to enhance predictions.
result High dimensional embeddings pre-trained on health data significantly improve multi-label classification performance.

Backdoors can be implanted in neural models of source code, and we detect and remove them.

problem Vulnerability of neural models to backdoors in source code.
method Defined and implemented various backdoor classes, adapted robust statistics algorithms, and detected poisoned data through spectral signatures.
result Demonstrated the ease of injecting and removing backdoors in neural models of source code.

This study presents a multimodal machine learning model to predict ICD-10 diagnostic codes. We developed separate machine learning models that can handle data from different modalities, including unstructured text, semi-structured text and structured tabular data. We further employed an ensemble method to integrate all…

2018-10-31abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper proposes graph-based separable transforms for video coding.

problem Improving video coding efficiency by better capturing residual block statistics.
method Derives graph-based separable transforms (GBSTs) from line graphs with weights determined by parameters.
result GBSTs achieve about 0.4% average coding gain over existing transforms in VVC.

Sparse coding approximates the data sample as a sparse linear combination of some basic codewords and uses the sparse codes as new presentations. In this paper, we investigate learning discriminative sparse codes by sparse coding in a semi-supervised manner, where only a few training samples are labeled. By using the m…

2013-11-26abs ↗pdf ↗

Code search and comprehension have become more difficult in recent years due to the rapid expansion of available source code. Current tools lack a way to label arbitrary code at scale while maintaining up-to-date representations of new programming languages, libraries, and functionalities. Comprehensive labeling of sou…

2019-06-03abs ↗pdf ↗

Categorical Co-Frequency Analysis clusters diagnoses to predict hospital readmissions.

problem Predicting patients' risk of 30-day hospital readmission.
method Categorical Co-Frequency Analysis (CoFA) measures diagnosis similarity using random forests.
result Identified three groups of diagnoses with varying readmission risk.

New theory shows predictive coding makes learning landscape easier to navigate.

problem Understanding the impact of predictive coding's inference procedure on learning efficiency.
method Analyzed the geometry of the energy landscape of deep linear networks, proving many non-strict saddles become strict in the equilibrated energy.
result All highly degenerate (non-strict) saddles of the loss become strict in the equilibrated energy, suggesting a more robust learning landscape.

In order to submit a claim to insurance companies, a doctor needs to code a patient encounter with both the diagnosis (ICDs) and procedures performed (CPTs) in an Electronic Health Record (EHR). Identifying and applying relevant procedures code is a cumbersome and time-consuming task as a doctor has to choose from arou…

2017-12-01abs ↗pdf ↗

Although software analytics has experienced rapid growth as a research area, it has not yet reached its full potential for wide industrial adoption. Most of the existing work in software analytics still relies heavily on costly manual feature engineering processes, and they mainly address the traditional classification…

2016-07-30abs ↗pdf ↗

Predictive coding networks are shown to be stable, robust, and converge faster than backpropagation.

problem Stability, robustness, and convergence of predictive coding networks.
method Dynamical systems theory and Lyapunov stability analysis.
result Predictive coding networks are Lyapunov stable and converge faster than backpropagation.

In this paper, we propose a semi-supervised dictionary learning method that uses both the information in labelled and unlabelled data and jointly trains a linear classifier embedded on the sparse codes. The manifold structure of the data in the sparse code space is preserved using the same approach as the Locally Linea…

2018-12-11abs ↗pdf ↗