4 papers
Kernel weighted importance sampling for off-policy evaluation in contextual bandits
Joshua Spear, Matthieu Komorowski, Rebecca Pope +1
This article presents a novel estimator for performing off-policy evaluation using only offline data for contextual bandits. The proposed estimator, Kernel-WIS is demonstrated to b…
LLM4EHR: Aligning Clinical Time Series with Medical Event Sequences via Large Language Models
Jingteng Li, Alexander Capstick, Louise Rigny +3
Recent research in clinical machine learning, focusing on outcome predictions in intensive care unit (ICU), has shifted from bespoke supervised models to foundation models, utilisi…
Evaluating covariate balance for long time horizon Markov decision processes
Joshua Spear, Rebecca Pope, Neil J Sebire
This article explores the application of covariate balance diagnostics for detecting the presence of hidden confounding/model miss-specification in studies applying offline reinfor…
A Semi-Automated Annotation Workflow for Paediatric Histopathology Reports Using Small Language Models
Avish Vijayaraghavan, Jaskaran Singh Kawatra, Sebin Sabu +11
Electronic Patient Record (EPR) systems contain valuable clinical information, but much of it is trapped in unstructured text, limiting its use for research and decision-making. La…