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48 results for affordable care act

We model the quantities appearing in Internal Revenue Service (IRS) tax guidance for calculating the health insurance premium tax credit created by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, also called Obamacare. We ask the question of whether there is a procedure, computable by hand, which can calculate the appr…

2018-10-31abs ↗pdf ↗

Model predicts wound and episode-level readmission risk and time to re-admit.

problem Identify patients at high risk of re-admission to prevent wound recurrences and reduce healthcare costs.
method Data-driven analysis of wound care and episode-level patient data.
result Model achieves high recall and precision for predicting re-admission risk and time.

HAL learns hierarchical affordances to prune impossible subtasks, improving reinforcement learning efficiency.

problem Reinforcement learning struggles with complex hierarchical dependency structures.
method HAL learns a model of hierarchical affordances to prune impossible subtasks.
result HAL agents are better at learning complex tasks, navigating stochastic environments, and acquiring diverse skills.

The paper introduces affordances for reinforcement learning, improving planning and learning efficiency.

problem Reinforcement learning assumes all actions are available, but real-world agents face limited action spaces.
method Developed a theory of affordances for Markov Decision Processes, proposing methods to learn and use affordances.
result Affordances improve planning speed and learning efficiency, leading to simpler and better generalizing transition models.

Machine Learning is proving invaluable across disciplines. However, its success is often limited by the quality and quantity of available data, while its adoption by the level of trust that models afford users. Human vs. machine performance is commonly compared empirically to decide whether a certain task should be per…

2019-03-22abs ↗pdf ↗

One of the open challenges in designing robots that operate successfully in the unpredictable human environment is how to make them able to predict what actions they can perform on objects, and what their effects will be, i.e., the ability to perceive object affordances. Since modeling all the possible world interactio…

2018-04-09abs ↗pdf ↗

We consider the Neumann Laplacian acting on square-integrable functions on a triangle in the hyperbolic plane that has one cusp. We show that the generic such triangle has no eigenvalues embedded in its continuous spectrum. To prove this result we study the behavior of the real-analytic eigenvalue branches of a degener…

2014-02-19abs ↗pdf ↗

Collage-CNN reduces cloud inference latency by 1.47X with 9X reduced latency variation.

problem Reducing latency variance in cloud machine learning inference.
method Proposes a novel Collage-CNN model that combines multiple images for classification, providing redundancy and cost efficiency.
result Significant reduction in 99th percentile tail latency and variation in inference latency.

New PCGML approach generates novel game content across multiple platformer domains.

problem Generating novel game content in new domains.
method Using a new affordance and path vocabulary, variational autoencoders trained on data from six platformer games produce new content with varying proportions of different domains.
result Captures latent level space spanning multiple domains and generates new content with varying proportions of different domains.

Propagates adversarial robustness in federated learning.

problem Heterogeneous federated users with non-iid data and limited resources.
method Adversarial robustness propagation through batch-normalization.
result Federated models achieve remarkable robustness even with limited adversarial training.

Let MM be a closed, connected, orientable topological four-manifold with H1(M)H_1(M) nontrivial and free abelian, b2(M)0,2b_2(M)\ne 0, 2, and χ(M)0χ(M)\ne 0. We show that if GG is a finite group of 2-rank 1\le 1 which admits a homologically trivial, locally linear, effective action on MM, then GG must be cyclic. With addition…

2007-07-25abs ↗pdf ↗

Deep RL controls anesthesia more accurately than traditional methods.

problem Controlling the level of unconsciousness during anesthesia.
method Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) to map patient state to propofol dosage.
result Deep RL model outperformed traditional controllers (1.7% vs 3.4% median absolute performance error).

The study uses machine learning to analyze office floor plans and predict function based on geometry.

problem Lack of formalisms to describe spatial affordance in automated floor-plan generation tools.
method Supervised and unsupervised data mining techniques, including J48 algorithm, were used to analyze office floor plans.
result J48 algorithm can predict class performance on unseen examples up to 79.5% for office dataset.

The paper presents a method to score patient engagement in care programs and predicts their response.

problem Improving health outcomes of high-need patients through better patient engagement.
method Data-driven behavioral engagement scoring pipeline for two aspects of patient engagement.
result The scoring method successfully predicts patient engagement and provides interpretable insights.

The study shows that certain manifolds with positive curvature cannot contain specific geometric structures.

problem The existence of certain geometric structures in manifolds with positive curvature.
method Careful study of the stability of minimal two spheres in manifolds of positive curvature.
result No element of the fundamental group reverses the orientation of a class in the second homotopy group.

Improving the quality of end-of-life care for hospitalized patients is a priority for healthcare organizations. Studies have shown that physicians tend to over-estimate prognoses, which in combination with treatment inertia results in a mismatch between patients wishes and actual care at the end of life. We describe a …

2017-11-17abs ↗pdf ↗

We define a finite-dimensional cubic quotient of the group algebra of the braid group, endowed with a (essentially unique) Markov trace which affords the Links-Grould invariant of knots and links. We investigate several of its properties, and state several conjectures about its structure.

2012-03-27abs ↗pdf ↗

Public benchmark for machine learning models in critical care.

problem Lack of public benchmarks for machine learning in critical care.
method Defined four tasks (mortality prediction, length of stay, phenotyping, decompensation risk) and compared clinical and deep learning models on eICU dataset.
result First public benchmark on multi-centre critical care dataset, comparing clinical models with predictive models.

Paper develops new algorithms for unsupervised multi-class domain adaptation.

problem Improving performance of machine learning models across different domains without labeled data.
method Introduces MCSD divergence and a new domain adaptation bound, develops adversarial learning objectives, and proposes new algorithms like McDalNets and SymmNets.
result New algorithms improve performance across different domain adaptation settings.

Study on privacy-preserving health care models that sacrifice accuracy for data protection.

problem Privacy-preserving models in health care neglect data from the tails, reducing accuracy for small groups.
method Used state-of-the-art differentially private learning methods for clinical prediction tasks.
result Privacy-preserving models in health care exhibit steep tradeoffs between privacy and utility, and disproportionately influence large demographic groups.

Estimates causal effect of managed care plans on NYC Medicaid spending.

problem Generalizing causal estimates to a target population not well-represented by randomized studies.
method Conditional cross-design synthesis estimators combining randomized and observational data.
result Estimates causal effect of managed care plans on health care spending.

We present a survey of the calibrated geometries arising in the study of the local singularity structure of supersymmetric fivebranes in M-theory. We pay particular attention to the geometries of 4-planes in eight dimensions, for which we present some new results as well as many details of the computations. We also ana…

1998-06-04abs ↗pdf ↗

Data analytics using machine learning (ML) has become ubiquitous in science, business intelligence, journalism and many other domains. While a lot of work focuses on reducing the training cost, inference runtime and storage cost of ML models, little work studies how to reduce the cost of data acquisition, which potenti…

2018-05-26abs ↗pdf ↗

We consider composite loss functions for multiclass prediction comprising a proper (i.e., Fisher-consistent) loss over probability distributions and an inverse link function. We establish conditions for their (strong) convexity and explore the implications. We also show how the separation of concerns afforded by using …

2012-06-18abs ↗pdf ↗

AdvImmune improves certifiable robustness of GNNs against adversarial attacks.

problem Vulnerability of graph neural networks to adversarial attacks.
method Proposes AdvImmune, an algorithm that optimizes with meta-gradient to improve certifiable robustness.
result Remarkably improves the ratio of robust nodes by 12%, 42%, 65% with an affordable immune budget of only 5% edges.

Characterizes Fredholm conditions for group-invariant pseudodifferential operators.

problem Understanding Fredholm conditions for operators on quotient spaces.
method Study of symbol CC^*-algebra and topology of primitive ideal spectrum.
result Explicit characterization of Fredholm operators in terms of principal symbol and group action.

This work aims to create a large-scale model for critical care time series data.

problem Lack of large-scale datasets and distribution shifts in critical care time series data.
method Harmonized dataset creation and transfer learning research.
result Established a foundation for large-scale multi-variate time series models in critical care.

Graph-based methods pervade the inference toolkits of numerous disciplines including sociology, biology, neuroscience, physics, chemistry, and engineering. A challenging problem encountered in this context pertains to determining the attributes of a set of vertices given those of another subset at possibly different ti…

2016-12-12abs ↗pdf ↗