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20192025
most citedThe Concordance Index decomposition: A measure for a deeper understanding of survival prediction models

26 citations · 42 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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10 papers

cs.CV2025

Leveraging ChatGPT's Multimodal Vision Capabilities to Rank Satellite Images by Poverty Level: Advancing Tools for Social Science Research

Hamid Sarmadi, Ola Hall, Thorsteinn Rögnvaldsson +1

This paper investigates the novel application of Large Language Models (LLMs) with vision capabilities to analyze satellite imagery for village-level poverty prediction. Although L…

cs.LG2024

Volvo Discovery Challenge at ECML-PKDD 2024

Mahmoud Rahat, Peyman Sheikholharam Mashhadi, Sławomir Nowaczyk +6

This paper presents an overview of the Volvo Discovery Challenge, held during the ECML-PKDD 2024 conference. The challenge's goal was to predict the failure risk of an anonymized c…

cs.LG2024

Learning to Learn without Forgetting using Attention

Anna Vettoruzzo, Joaquin Vanschoren, Mohamed-Rafik Bouguelia +1

Continual learning (CL) refers to the ability to continually learn over time by accommodating new knowledge while retaining previously learned experience. While this concept is inh…

cs.LG2024

CoxSE: Exploring the Potential of Self-Explaining Neural Networks with Cox Proportional Hazards Model for Survival Analysis

Abdallah Alabdallah, Omar Hamed, Mattias Ohlsson +2

The Cox Proportional Hazards (CPH) model has long been the preferred survival model for its explainability. However, to increase its predictive power beyond its linear log-risk, it…

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

Personalized Federated Learning with Contextual Modulation and Meta-Learning

Anna Vettoruzzo, Mohamed-Rafik Bouguelia, Thorsteinn Rögnvaldsson

Federated learning has emerged as a promising approach for training machine learning models on decentralized data sources while preserving data privacy. However, challenges such as…

cs.CV2023★ 6 cited

Towards Explaining Satellite Based Poverty Predictions with Convolutional Neural Networks

Hamid Sarmadi, Thorsteinn Rögnvaldsson, Nils Roger Carlsson +3

Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been shown to predict poverty and development indicators from satellite images with surprising accuracy. This paper presents a first…

cs.LG2023★ 6 cited

Advances and Challenges in Meta-Learning: A Technical Review

Anna Vettoruzzo, Mohamed-Rafik Bouguelia, Joaquin Vanschoren +2

Meta-learning empowers learning systems with the ability to acquire knowledge from multiple tasks, enabling faster adaptation and generalization to new tasks. This review provides…

cs.CY2022★ 1 cited

Satellite Image and Machine Learning based Knowledge Extraction in the Poverty and Welfare Domain

Ola Hall, Mattias Ohlsson, Thortseinn Rögnvaldsson

Recent advances in artificial intelligence and machine learning have created a step change in how to measure human development indicators, in particular asset based poverty. The co…

cs.LG2022★ 26 cited

The Concordance Index decomposition: A measure for a deeper understanding of survival prediction models

Abdallah Alabdallah, Mattias Ohlsson, Sepideh Pashami +1

The Concordance Index (C-index) is a commonly used metric in Survival Analysis for evaluating the performance of a prediction model. In this paper, we propose a decomposition of th…

cs.LG2019★ 2 cited

Transfer learning for Remaining Useful Life Prediction Based on Consensus Self-Organizing Models

Yuantao Fan, Sławomir Nowaczyk, Thorsteinn Rögnvaldsson

The traditional paradigm for developing machine prognostics usually relies on generalization from data acquired in experiments under controlled conditions prior to deployment of th…