4 papers
Stochastic Primal-Dual Double Block-Coordinate for Two-way Partial AUC Maximization
Linli Zhou, Bokun Wang, My T. Thai +1
Two-way partial AUC (TPAUC) is a critical performance metric for binary classification with imbalanced data, as it focuses on specific ranges of the true positive rate (TPR) and fa…
Correcting Misperceptions at a Glance: Using Data Visualizations to Reduce Political Sectarianism
Douglas Markant, Subham Sah, Alireza Karduni +3
Political sectarianism is fueled in part by misperceptions of political opponents: People commonly overestimate the support for extreme policies among members of the other party. R…
Model Steering: Learning with a Reference Model Improves Generalization Bounds and Scaling Laws
Xiyuan Wei, Ming Lin, Fanjiang Ye +4
This paper formalizes an emerging learning paradigm that uses a trained model as a reference to guide and enhance the training of a target model through strategic data selection or…
XTSFormer: Cross-Temporal-Scale Transformer for Irregular-Time Event Prediction in Clinical Applications
Tingsong Xiao, Zelin Xu, Wenchong He +8
Adverse clinical events related to unsafe care are among the top ten causes of death in the U.S. Accurate modeling and prediction of clinical events from electronic health records…