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most citedSynthcity: facilitating innovative use cases of synthetic data in different data modalities

26 citations · 174 across the 22 of their papers we have counts for

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25 papers

cs.LG2025

Improving the Generation and Evaluation of Synthetic Data for Downstream Medical Causal Inference

Harry Amad, Zhaozhi Qian, Dennis Frauen +3

Causal inference is essential for developing and evaluating medical interventions, yet real-world medical datasets are often difficult to access due to regulatory barriers. This ma…

cs.LG2024

ODE Discovery for Longitudinal Heterogeneous Treatment Effects Inference

Krzysztof Kacprzyk, Samuel Holt, Jeroen Berrevoets +2

Inferring unbiased treatment effects has received widespread attention in the machine learning community. In recent years, our community has proposed numerous solutions in standard…

cs.LG2024

DAGnosis: Localized Identification of Data Inconsistencies using Structures

Nicolas Huynh, Jeroen Berrevoets, Nabeel Seedat +3

Identification and appropriate handling of inconsistencies in data at deployment time is crucial to reliably use machine learning models. While recent data-centric methods are able…

stat.ML2024★ 2 cited

Adaptive Experiment Design with Synthetic Controls

Alihan Hüyük, Zhaozhi Qian, Mihaela van der Schaar

Clinical trials are typically run in order to understand the effects of a new treatment on a given population of patients. However, patients in large populations rarely respond the…

cs.LG2023★ 4 cited

Deep Generative Symbolic Regression

Samuel Holt, Zhaozhi Qian, Mihaela van der Schaar

Symbolic regression (SR) aims to discover concise closed-form mathematical equations from data, a task fundamental to scientific discovery. However, the problem is highly challengi…

cs.LG2023★ 2 cited

TRIAGE: Characterizing and auditing training data for improved regression

Nabeel Seedat, Jonathan Crabbé, Zhaozhi Qian +1

Data quality is crucial for robust machine learning algorithms, with the recent interest in data-centric AI emphasizing the importance of training data characterization. However, c…

cs.LG2023

Clairvoyance: A Pipeline Toolkit for Medical Time Series

Daniel Jarrett, Jinsung Yoon, Ioana Bica +3

Time-series learning is the bread and butter of data-driven *clinical decision support*, and the recent explosion in ML research has demonstrated great potential in various healthc…

cs.LG2023

Learning Representations without Compositional Assumptions

Tennison Liu, Jeroen Berrevoets, Zhaozhi Qian +1

This paper addresses unsupervised representation learning on tabular data containing multiple views generated by distinct sources of measurement. Traditional methods, which tackle…

cs.LG2023★ 17 cited

Synthetic data, real errors: how (not) to publish and use synthetic data

Boris van Breugel, Zhaozhi Qian, Mihaela van der Schaar

Generating synthetic data through generative models is gaining interest in the ML community and beyond, promising a future where datasets can be tailored to individual needs. Unfor…

cs.LG2023★ 4 cited

Causal Deep Learning

Jeroen Berrevoets, Krzysztof Kacprzyk, Zhaozhi Qian +1

Causality has the potential to truly transform the way we solve a large number of real-world problems. Yet, so far, its potential largely remains to be unlocked as causality often…

cs.LG2023★ 25 cited

Membership Inference Attacks against Synthetic Data through Overfitting Detection

Boris van Breugel, Hao Sun, Zhaozhi Qian +1

Data is the foundation of most science. Unfortunately, sharing data can be obstructed by the risk of violating data privacy, impeding research in fields like healthcare. Synthetic…

cs.LG2023★ 2 cited

Neural Laplace Control for Continuous-time Delayed Systems

Samuel Holt, Alihan Hüyük, Zhaozhi Qian +2

Many real-world offline reinforcement learning (RL) problems involve continuous-time environments with delays. Such environments are characterized by two distinctive features: firs…

cs.LG2023★ 26 cited

Synthcity: facilitating innovative use cases of synthetic data in different data modalities

Zhaozhi Qian, Bogdan-Constantin Cebere, Mihaela van der Schaar

Synthcity is an open-source software package for innovative use cases of synthetic data in ML fairness, privacy and augmentation across diverse tabular data modalities, including s…

cs.LG2022

Navigating causal deep learning

Jeroen Berrevoets, Krzysztof Kacprzyk, Zhaozhi Qian +1

Causal deep learning (CDL) is a new and important research area in the larger field of machine learning. With CDL, researchers aim to structure and encode causal knowledge in the e…

cs.LG2022★ 5 cited

Continuous-Time Modeling of Counterfactual Outcomes Using Neural Controlled Differential Equations

Nabeel Seedat, Fergus Imrie, Alexis Bellot +2

Estimating counterfactual outcomes over time has the potential to unlock personalized healthcare by assisting decision-makers to answer ''what-iF'' questions. Existing causal infer…

cs.LG2022★ 5 cited

Neural Laplace: Learning diverse classes of differential equations in the Laplace domain

Samuel Holt, Zhaozhi Qian, Mihaela van der Schaar

Neural Ordinary Differential Equations model dynamical systems with ODEs learned by neural networks. However, ODEs are fundamentally inadequate to model systems with long-range dep…

cs.LG2022★ 1 cited

D-CIPHER: Discovery of Closed-form Partial Differential Equations

Krzysztof Kacprzyk, Zhaozhi Qian, Mihaela van der Schaar

Closed-form differential equations, including partial differential equations and higher-order ordinary differential equations, are one of the most important tools used by scientist…

cs.LG2021★ 9 cited

Explaining Latent Representations with a Corpus of Examples

Jonathan Crabbé, Zhaozhi Qian, Fergus Imrie +1

Modern machine learning models are complicated. Most of them rely on convoluted latent representations of their input to issue a prediction. To achieve greater transparency than a…

cs.LG2021★ 18 cited

Integrating Expert ODEs into Neural ODEs: Pharmacology and Disease Progression

Zhaozhi Qian, William R. Zame, Lucas M. Fleuren +2

Modeling a system's temporal behaviour in reaction to external stimuli is a fundamental problem in many areas. Pure Machine Learning (ML) approaches often fail in the small sample…

cs.LG2021

Selecting Treatment Effects Models for Domain Adaptation Using Causal Knowledge

Trent Kyono, Ioana Bica, Zhaozhi Qian +1

Selecting causal inference models for estimating individualized treatment effects (ITE) from observational data presents a unique challenge since the counterfactual outcomes are ne…

cs.LG2020

CPAS: the UK's National Machine Learning-based Hospital Capacity Planning System for COVID-19

Zhaozhi Qian, Ahmed M. Alaa, Mihaela van der Schaar

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) global pandemic poses the threat of overwhelming healthcare systems with unprecedented demands for intensive care resources. Managing these…

stat.ML2020★ 15 cited

Unlabelled Data Improves Bayesian Uncertainty Calibration under Covariate Shift

Alex J. Chan, Ahmed M. Alaa, Zhaozhi Qian +1

Modern neural networks have proven to be powerful function approximators, providing state-of-the-art performance in a multitude of applications. They however fall short in their ab…

stat.AP2020★ 14 cited

When and How to Lift the Lockdown? Global COVID-19 Scenario Analysis and Policy Assessment using Compartmental Gaussian Processes

Zhaozhi Qian, Ahmed M. Alaa, Mihaela van der Schaar

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) global pandemic has led many countries to impose unprecedented lockdown measures in order to slow down the outbreak. Questions on whether go…

cs.LG2020★ 13 cited

Learning Dynamic and Personalized Comorbidity Networks from Event Data using Deep Diffusion Processes

Zhaozhi Qian, Ahmed M. Alaa, Alexis Bellot +2

Comorbid diseases co-occur and progress via complex temporal patterns that vary among individuals. In electronic health records we can observe the different diseases a patient has,…