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48 results for Predictive vs Prescriptive

The Prescriptive Canvas improves business outcomes by directly prescribing actions based on predictions.

problem Sub-optimal performance in business projects due to a two-step approach of prediction and decision-making.
method The Prescriptive Canvas methodology for framing and communicating actions directly based on predictions.
result Improves framing and communication across stakeholders for successful business impact.

CPR models complex decision processes by breaking them into context-specific policies, improving interpretability and accuracy.

problem Interpreting dynamic human decision-making processes in medical contexts.
method Develops Contextualized Policy Recovery (CPR) framework for multi-task learning, modeling each context-specific policy as a linear map.
result Achieves state-of-the-art performance in predicting medical decisions, closing the gap between interpretable and black-box methods.

ODTLearn learns optimal decision trees for predictive and prescriptive tasks.

problem Learning optimal decision trees for high-stakes predictive and prescriptive tasks.
method Mixed-integer optimization framework and object-oriented design.
result Implementation of optimal decision trees for various tasks.

A model learns symptom-drug relations for PD patients.

problem Automatic prescription recommendation for Parkinson's Disease patients.
method Builds a dataset of PD symptoms and prescriptions, learns latent symptom space, uses alternating optimization.
result Effective in recommending suitable prescription drugs for new PD patients.

The study compares Euclidean and cosine distances in medical drug prescription prediction.

problem Comparing Euclidean and cosine distances in medical drug prescription prediction.
method Established geometric properties and compared distances in real-world medical data.
result Different distances lead to different optimizing nonlinear kernel embedding frameworks.

This paper addresses a novel data science problem, prescriptive price optimization, which derives the optimal price strategy to maximize future profit/revenue on the basis of massive predictive formulas produced by machine learning. The prescriptive price optimization first builds sales forecast formulas of multiple pr…

2016-05-18abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper proposes a method to quantify and explain machine learning uncertainty in predictive process monitoring.

problem Neglect of data-driven estimation, point forecasts without model uncertainty, and lack of explanations.
method Quantile Regression Forests for interval predictions and SHapley Additive Explanations for uncertainty.
result Effective handling of model uncertainty in predictive process monitoring.

Improves uncertainty estimation and OOD detection in neural networks.

problem Accurate uncertainty estimation and OOD detection in neural networks.
method Investigates one-vs-all and distance-based logit representations for probabilities.
result One-vs-all formulations improve calibration without additional complexity.

We address the problem of prescribing an optimal decision in a framework where the cost function depends on uncertain problem parameters that need to be learned from data. Earlier work proposed prescriptive formulations based on supervised machine learning methods. These prescriptive methods can factor in contextual in…

2017-11-27abs ↗pdf ↗

In healthcare, patient risk stratification models are often learned using time-series data extracted from electronic health records. When extracting data for a clinical prediction task, several formulations exist, depending on how one chooses the time of prediction and the prediction horizon. In this paper, we show how…

2018-11-29abs ↗pdf ↗

New approach for estimating individual treatment effects in low compliance settings.

problem Estimating individual treatment effects in scenarios with low compliance.
method Proposes a new approach using Structural Causal Model and do-calculus to estimate Individual Prescription Effect (IPE) with asymptotic variance guarantees.
result Consistently improves state-of-the-art in low compliance settings.

RS-NN predicts belief functions for classification, improving accuracy and uncertainty estimation.

problem Improving confidence in machine learning predictions for safety-critical applications.
method Random-Set Neural Network (RS-NN) using random set mathematics.
result RS-NN outperforms state-of-the-art methods in accuracy, uncertainty estimation, and OoD detection.

Analyzes COVID-19 data to predict mortality, forecast spread, and optimize resource allocation.

problem Challenges in patient triage, treatment, and care management during the pandemic.
method Integrated four-step approach combining descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analytics.
result Optimized resource allocation and informed policy decisions.

In this paper we give a new proof of a theorem by Alexandrov on the Gauss curvature prescription of Euclidean convex sets. This proof is based on the duality theory of convex sets and on optimal mass transport. A noteworthy property of this proof is that it does not rely neither on the theory of convex polyhedra nor on…

2015-05-18abs ↗pdf ↗

Study improves dynamic PT fleet optimization under noisy demand predictions.

problem Accurately predicting dynamic public transport demand for effective fleet management.
method Experimental case study in Copenhagen, using linear programming to optimize fleets.
result Optimized fleet performance is mainly affected by noise distribution skew and large errors.

Two problems concerning asymptotically hyperbolic manifolds with an inner boundary are studied. First, we study scalar curvature presciption with either Dirichlet or mean curvature prescription interior boundary condition. Then we apply those results to the Lichnerowicz equation with (future or past) apparent horizon i…

2008-02-22abs ↗pdf ↗

New method fuses optical and SAR data to fill LAI gaps during cloudy periods.

problem Cloudy periods mask key crop growth stages, leading to unreliable yield predictions.
method Multi-Output Gaussian Process (MOGP) regression for fusing Sentinel-1 RVI and Sentinel-2 LAI time series.
result MOGP provides improved LAI estimations even during cloudy periods, especially for long gaps.

Quantitative CT predicts ILD patterns and prognosis.

problem Diagnosing and predicting prognosis of fibrosing ILD patterns.
method High-resolution CT texture features, TM model for classification and survival analysis.
result TM model outperforms histogram-based model in distinguishing UIP from non-UIP patterns and allows for survival group partitioning.

In this paper, we combine ideas from machine learning (ML) and operations research and management science (OR/MS) in developing a framework, along with specific methods, for using data to prescribe optimal decisions in OR/MS problems. In a departure from other work on data-driven optimization and reflecting our practic…

2014-02-22abs ↗pdf ↗

Bayesian deep learning ensemble improves pneumonia diagnosis accuracy.

problem Manual, time-consuming pneumonia diagnosis with high inter-observer variability.
method Multi-level ensemble classification system using Bayesian Deep Learning.
result Accuracy of 98.06% in differentiating four pathologies.

Optimizes decisions without knowing the true distribution using historical data.

problem Optimizing decisions without knowing the true distribution.
method Combines sampling and bisection search algorithms to solve an optimization problem.
result Proves sufficient conditions for local out-of-sample optimality.

Few-shot learning aims to train efficient predictive models with a few examples. The lack of training data leads to poor models that perform high-variance or low-confidence predictions. In this paper, we propose to meta-learn the ensemble of epoch-wise empirical Bayes models (E3BM) to achieve robust predictions. "Epoch…

2019-04-17abs ↗pdf ↗