Paper improves preterm birth prediction using neural networks with noisy labels.
problem Predicting preterm birth from noisy EHR diagnosis codes.
method Developed ALC method to correct label noise in deep learning models.
result Improved prediction performance compared to baseline methods.
Study shows over-sampling biases prediction results on imbalanced datasets.
problem Over-optimistic prediction results on imbalanced data.
method Applying over-sampling before partitioning training and testing sets.
result Over-sampling causes biased results and reduces predictive performance.
Ancestry improves genealogy search results by ranking diverse record types.
problem Ranking diverse genealogy records equitably from various sources.
method Customized Coordinate Ascent, Stochastic Search, Normalized Cumulative Entropy.
result Demonstrated effectiveness of algorithms in improving relevance and diversity.
Study shows religious fasting affects conception rates in Romania.
problem Understanding how religious fasting affects conception rates in Romania.
method Longitudinal analysis of birth records from 1905 to 2001, econometric models.
result Lent fasting has a more significant effect on conception rates in Eastern Orthodox population.
Method approximates first passage times for birth-death processes.
problem Approximating first passage times for birth-death processes.
method General method using birth-death process properties, Keilson's theorem, and Riemann sums.
result Closed-form expressions for first passage times.
Study uses machine learning to predict preterm birth.
problem Predicting different classes of preterm birth.
method Support vector machine (SVM) with linear and non-linear kernels, logistic regression, and decision rules.
result Significant improvement in predicting preterm birth.
Proposes a new birth-death process for better modeling of population dynamics.
problem Models of population or opinion dynamics with spurious long-range memory.
method Introduces Bessel-like birth-death process to address the spurious long-range memory.
result Derives equations for the burst and inter-burst duration of the new process.
Gradient flow connects two critical points near birth-death.
problem Connecting critical points near birth-death in gradient flows.
method Whitney normal form, Conley index construction, adiabatic limit analysis.
result Gradient trajectory connects two critical points up to time-shift.
New prediction rule for preterm births with high sensitivity and specificity.
problem Difficulty in predicting preterm births accurately.
method Automatically generated and selected interpretable prediction rule from high-dimensional data.
result Simplified prediction rule with 10 items has 62.3% sensitivity and 81.5% specificity.
A birth-death process improves BN structure learning.
problem Learning BN structure from data is NP-hard.
method Modeling BN structure changes as a birth-death process.
result The birth-death process mixes faster than Metropolis-Hastings.
Study birth-death dynamics for sampling Gibbs measures with nonconvex potentials.
problem Sampling Gibbs measures with nonconvex potentials.
method Birth-death dynamics, Kullback-Leibler divergence, χ 2 χ^2 χ 2 divergence, kernel-based approximations, Γ Γ Γ -convergence of gradient flows. result Probability density converges exponentially fast to Gibbs equilibrium measure with a universal rate.
Study estimates personalized effects of maternal PM2.5 exposure on birth weight.
problem Identify critical windows and heterogeneity in maternal PM2.5 exposure effects on birth weight.
method Heterogeneous Distributed Lag Models and Bayesian Additive Regression Trees.
result Evidence of heterogeneity in PM2.5-birth weight relationship, with some dyads showing 3x larger decrease.
Ubenwa diagnoses birth asphyxia from infant cries.
problem Difficulty in early detection of asphyxia in resource-poor settings.
method Machine learning system for automated infant cry analysis.
result Reduction in time, cost, and skill required for accurate diagnoses.
A new sampling algorithm speeds up Langevin sampling for multimodal distributions.
problem Efficient sampling from multimodal distributions in Bayesian inference.
method Birth-death mechanism applied to Langevin diffusion.
result The algorithm accelerates mixing of Langevin diffusion, independent of potential barriers.
New method uses birth-death process and exploration component to accelerate sampling from multimodal distributions.
problem Sampling from multimodal probability distributions efficiently.
method Combines birth-death process and exploration component to accelerate sampling.
result Proves exponential asymptotic convergence under mild assumptions.
Study predicts infant mortality using birth certificate data.
problem High infant mortality rate in the U.S. and racial/ethnic disparities.
method Classification models trained on birth certificate features.
result Methodology outperforms standard classification methods.
Deep learning predicts preterm birth risk with improved accuracy.
problem Improving accuracy in predicting spontaneous preterm deliveries.
method U-Net segmentation network for automatic extraction of cervical length and anterior cervical angle.
result Combined markers reduce false-negative ratio from 30% to 18%
Fair quantile regression adjusts estimators to balance subpopulation quantiles.
problem Unfair quantile estimators for subpopulations defined by a protected attribute.
method Proposes a procedure to adjust quantile estimators on heldout samples with protected attribute information.
result Demonstrates n \sqrt{n} n -fairness, balancing target quantiles across subpopulations. New birth-death dynamics accelerates convergence in neural networks.
problem Accelerating convergence in neural networks with large parameters.
method Proposed a non-local mass transport dynamics as a stochastic neuronal birth-death process.
result Proved that the birth-death dynamics accelerates the rate of convergence in the mean-field limit.
The paper studies curvature conditions on birth-death processes and graphs.
problem Curvature dimension conditions on birth-death processes and linear graphs.
method Combinatorial characterization and proof of conditions for linear graphs.
result Volume doubling property and Poincaré inequality for graphs with non-negative curvature.
New method improves phylogenetic model inference by 30x.
problem Improving phylogenetic model inference for birth-death processes.
method Combines alive particle filter with delayed sampling.
result Significant improvement in effective sample size and acceptance rate.
FS&P uses birth-death process to ensure global convergence of stochastic conic particle gradient descent.
problem Global optimization of non-convex objective functions over measure space.
method Introduces Fast Spawn\&Prune (FS\&P) combining CPGD with birth-death process.
result First theoretical guarantee of global convergence for discrete-time stochastic algorithms.
New RL algorithm reduces regret in birth-death queueing problems.
problem Efficiency of reinforcement learning in MDPs with large state spaces.
method Modified Ucrl2 algorithm exploiting birth-death structure.
result Regret bound of i l d e O ( E 2 A T ) ilde{\mathcal{O}}(\sqrt{E_2AT}) i l d e O ( E 2 A T ) independent of state space size. Study on knot types using thickness and length constraints.
problem Understanding the ideal stratum and deformation persistence of knot types.
method Ropelength-filtered spaces and admissible deformations.
result The first birth level of admissible components corresponds to the ropelength of the knot.
FUALA improves Federated Learning for EHR data, enhancing model uncertainty.
problem Applying ML to EHR data while maintaining privacy and accuracy.
method FUALA embeds uncertainty in federated learning, using ensembling and averaging.
result FUALA outperforms FedAvg on out-of-distribution data in EHR model predictions.
Classifies and analyzes the stability of black hole event horizon birth points using contact geometry.
problem Classifying and understanding the structural possibilities of black hole crease sets.
method Contact geometry approach, focusing on BigFronts and their Legendrian projections.
result Refined stability discussion of the event horizon birth component and identification of additional components.
Paper disproves conjecture about log-Sobolev constants.
problem Log-Sobolev constants and curvature bounds.
method Counterexample on birth-death chains.
result Conjecture about Ollivier curvature is incorrect.
New MCMC algorithm improves convergence of Bayesian regression trees.
problem Local mode stickiness and poor mixing in MCMC algorithms for Bayesian regression trees.
method Continuous-time birth-death MCMC algorithm for Bayesian regression tree models.
result The new algorithm dramatically improves convergence and mixing properties of MCMC.
Paper uses AI to improve medical diagnosis accuracy.
problem Improving accuracy of medical diagnoses.
method Heuristic frequentist and Bayesian approaches applied to a nationwide dataset.
result Algorithm outperforms human doctors in detecting abnormal births.
New metrics and coordinates for barcode space using group theory.
problem Describing and measuring the space of barcodes.
method Geometric group theory applied to barcodes.
result Stratification of barcode space into regions with similar statistical properties.
Paper proposes scalable method for analyzing multi-omic data.
problem Integrating high-dimensional multi-omic data for cancer subtyping.
method Mixed graphical model approach using Birth-Death MCMC algorithm.
result Our method outperforms LASSO and standard BDMCMC in computational efficiency and model selection accuracy.
Paper introduces a Bayesian nonparametric approach for tracking multiple objects with spawning events.
problem Tracking multiple objects with birth and death events (spawning).
method Bayesian nonparametric approach with MCMC sampling for unknown number of objects.
result Advantages of nonparametric modeling for scenarios with spawning events.
Topic models have proven to be a useful tool for discovering latent structures in document collections. However, most document collections often come as temporal streams and thus several aspects of the latent structure such as the number of topics, the topics' distribution and popularity are time-evolving. Several mode…
Thirty years after the birth of foliations in the 1950's, André Haefliger has introduced a special property satisfied by holonomy pseudogroups of foliations on compact manifolds, called compact generation. Up to now, this is the only general property known about holonomy on compact manifolds. In this article, we give a…
Enhances early risk assessments for pediatric outcomes using contrastive learning.
problem Improving risk assessments in early stages of pediatric development.
method Contrastive multi-modal framework that treats each time window as a distinct modality, training on all available data.
result Consistent improvements in early-stage risk assessments validated on real-world tasks.
Explains the history and challenges of minimal surfaces.
problem Understanding the regularity of minimal surfaces.
method Historical overview and technical analysis.
result Outlines the evolution and current state of minimal surfaces.
Kernel methods identify treatment effects with unobserved confounding using negative controls.
problem Learning causal relationships with unmeasured confounding.
method Kernel ridge regression algorithms for nonparametric treatment effects.
result Uniform consistency and finite sample rates of convergence proved.
Researchers analyze record statistics in correlated random walks and Lévy flights.
problem Understanding record statistics in correlated time series.
method Review of random walk models and Lévy flights, focusing on number of records and record ages.
result Effects of correlations on record statistics were observed and analyzed.
Flow Matching for count data improves sample quality and efficiency.
problem Mapping between count distributions across batches or time points in high-dimensional count data.
method count-FM, a flow-matching framework based on a continuous-time birth-death process with local unit jumps.
result count-FM achieves better sample quality than representative baselines while using fewer parameters.
Review of latest DRL algorithms with theoretical and practical insights.
problem Challenges in reinforcement learning and deep learning.
method Theoretical justification and empirical analysis of DRL algorithms.
result Empirical properties and practical limitations of DRL algorithms are discussed.
Bayesian method estimates QTEs from observational data.
problem Estimating nuanced characteristics of counterfactual distributions.
method Bayesian semiparametric conditional distribution regression model with double balancing score.
result Proposed method provides more accurate QTE estimates than other methods.
The study sets performance limits for record linkage using KL divergence.
problem Efficiently merging records in large, noisy databases to remove duplicates.
method Assesses performance bounds using Kullback-Leibler divergence in a Bayesian record linkage framework.
result Provides upper and lower bounds on misclassification probability.
We study the statistics of record-breaking events in daily stock prices of 366 stocks from the Standard and Poors 500 stock index. Both the record events in the daily stock prices themselves and the records in the daily returns are discussed. In both cases we try to describe the record statistics of the stock data with…
The surgery technique of Gromov and Lawson may be used to construct families of positive scalar curvature metrics which are parameterised by Morse functions. This has played an important role in the study of the space of metrics of positive scalar curvature on a smooth manifold and its corresponding moduli spaces. In t…
The study of record statistics of correlated series is gaining momentum. In this work, we study the records statistics of the time series of select stock market data and the geometric random walk, primarily through simulations. We show that the distribution of the age of records is a power law with the exponent α α α lyi…
Deepr learns features from medical records to predict patient risk.
problem Feature engineering bottleneck in creating predictive systems from medical records.
method Transforms medical records into sequences, uses convolutional neural nets to detect and combine clinical motifs.
result Deepr achieves superior accuracy in predicting patient risk compared to traditional techniques.
New approach protects privacy of deleted records in machine learning.
problem Privacy of deleted records in machine learning models.
method Sound deletion guarantee and noisy gradient descent algorithm.
result Privacy of existing records is necessary for deleted records' privacy.
We present a probabilistic method for linking multiple datafiles. This task is not trivial in the absence of unique identifiers for the individuals recorded. This is a common scenario when linking census data to coverage measurement surveys for census coverage evaluation, and in general when multiple record-systems nee…