1 code implementation • 29 Feb 2024 • Keying Kuang, Frances Dean, Jack B. Jedlicki, David Ouyang, Anthony Philippakis, David Sontag, Ahmed M. Alaa
A digital twin is a virtual replica of a real-world physical phenomena that uses mathematical modeling to characterize and simulate its defining features.
no code implementations • 11 Feb 2024 • Lars van der Laan, Ahmed M. Alaa
Conformal prediction helps decision-makers quantify uncertainty in point predictions of outcomes, allowing for better risk management for actions.
1 code implementation • 15 Oct 2023 • Shiladitya Dutta, Hongbo Wei, Lars van der Laan, Ahmed M. Alaa
Given a web-based calibration set, we apply conformal prediction with a novel conformity score that accounts for potential errors in retrieved web data.
1 code implementation • 30 Sep 2023 • Yulu Gan, Sungwoo Park, Alexander Schubert, Anthony Philippakis, Ahmed M. Alaa
We then use a large language model to paraphrase prompt templates that convey the specific tasks to be conducted on each image, and through this process, we create a multi-modal and multi-task training dataset comprising input and output images along with annotated instructions.
no code implementations • 4 Apr 2023 • Ahmed M. Alaa, Zeshan Hussain, David Sontag
We develop a predictive inference procedure that combines conformal prediction (CP) with unconditional quantile regression (QR) -- a commonly used tool in econometrics that involves regressing the recentered influence function (RIF) of the quantile functional over input covariates.
1 code implementation • NeurIPS 2021 • Kamile Stankeviciute, Ahmed M. Alaa, Mihaela van der Schaar
Current approaches for multi-horizon time series forecasting using recurrent neural networks (RNNs) focus on issuing point estimates, which is insufficient for decision-making in critical application domains where an uncertainty estimate is also required.
3 code implementations • 17 Feb 2021 • Ahmed M. Alaa, Boris van Breugel, Evgeny Saveliev, Mihaela van der Schaar
In this paper, we introduce a 3-dimensional evaluation metric, ($\alpha$-Precision, $\beta$-Recall, Authenticity), that characterizes the fidelity, diversity and generalization performance of any generative model in a domain-agnostic fashion.
1 code implementation • 28 Jan 2021 • Can Xu, Ahmed M. Alaa, Ioana Bica, Brent D. Ershoff, Maxime Cannesson, Mihaela van der Schaar
Organ transplantation is often the last resort for treating end-stage illness, but the probability of a successful transplantation depends greatly on compatibility between donors and recipients.
1 code implementation • 14 Aug 2020 • Alicia Curth, Ahmed M. Alaa, Mihaela van der Schaar
Within this framework, we propose two general learning algorithms that build on the idea of nonparametric plug-in bias removal via IFs: the 'IF-learner' which uses pseudo-outcomes motivated by uncentered IFs for regression in large samples and outputs entire target functions without confidence bands, and the 'Group-IF-learner', which outputs only approximations to a function but can give confidence estimates if sufficient information on coarsening mechanisms is available.
no code implementations • 27 Jul 2020 • 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.
1 code implementation • ICML 2020 • Ahmed M. Alaa, Mihaela van der Schaar
Deep learning models achieve high predictive accuracy across a broad spectrum of tasks, but rigorously quantifying their predictive uncertainty remains challenging.
no code implementations • ICML 2020 • Alex J. Chan, Ahmed M. Alaa, Zhaozhi Qian, Mihaela van der Schaar
In this paper, we develop an approximate Bayesian inference scheme based on posterior regularisation, wherein unlabelled target data are used as "pseudo-labels" of model confidence that are used to regularise the model's loss on labelled source data.
1 code implementation • ICML 2020 • Ahmed M. Alaa, Mihaela van der Schaar
Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) are instrumental in modelling sequential and time-series data.
1 code implementation • NeurIPS 2020 • Zhaozhi Qian, Ahmed M. Alaa, Mihaela van der Schaar
To this end, this paper develops a Bayesian model for predicting the effects of COVID-19 lockdown policies in a global context -- we treat each country as a distinct data point, and exploit variations of policies across countries to learn country-specific policy effects.
3 code implementations • ICLR 2020 • Ioana Bica, Ahmed M. Alaa, James Jordon, Mihaela van der Schaar
Identifying when to give treatments to patients and how to select among multiple treatments over time are important medical problems with a few existing solutions.
1 code implementation • 8 Jan 2020 • Zhaozhi Qian, Ahmed M. Alaa, Alexis Bellot, Jem Rashbass, Mihaela van der Schaar
Comorbid diseases co-occur and progress via complex temporal patterns that vary among individuals.
1 code implementation • NeurIPS 2019 • Ahmed M. Alaa, Mihaela van der Schaar
Models of disease progression are instrumental for predicting patient outcomes and understanding disease dynamics.
1 code implementation • NeurIPS 2019 • Ahmed M. Alaa, Mihaela van der Schaar
A symbolic metamodel is a model of a model, i. e., a surrogate model of a trained (machine learning) model expressed through a succinct symbolic expression that comprises familiar mathematical functions and can be subjected to symbolic manipulation.
no code implementations • 25 Sep 2019 • Ahmed M. Alaa, Mihaela van der Schaar
To address this question, we develop the discriminative jackknife (DJ), a formal inference procedure that constructs predictive confidence intervals for a wide range of deep learning models, is easy to implement, and provides rigorous theoretical guarantees on (1) and (2).
no code implementations • 29 May 2019 • Yao Zhang, James Jordon, Ahmed M. Alaa, Mihaela van der Schaar
In this paper, we present Lifelong Bayesian Optimization (LBO), an online, multitask Bayesian optimization (BO) algorithm designed to solve the problem of model selection for datasets arriving and evolving over time.
2 code implementations • ICML 2020 • Ioana Bica, Ahmed M. Alaa, Mihaela van der Schaar
The estimation of treatment effects is a pervasive problem in medicine.
no code implementations • 24 Oct 2018 • Ahmed M. Alaa, Mihaela van der Schaar
In this paper, we develop the phased attentive state space (PASS) model of disease progression, a deep probabilistic model that captures complex representations for disease progression while maintaining clinical interpretability.
Ranked #1 on Disease Trajectory Forecasting on UK CF trust
1 code implementation • ICML 2018 • Ahmed M. Alaa, Mihaela van der Schaar
AUTOPROGNOSIS optimizes ensembles of pipeline configurations efficiently using a novel batched Bayesian optimization (BO) algorithm that learns a low-dimensional decomposition of the pipelines high-dimensional hyperparameter space in concurrence with the BO procedure.
no code implementations • 24 Dec 2017 • Ahmed M. Alaa, Mihaela van der Schaar
We investigate the problem of estimating the causal effect of a treatment on individual subjects from observational data, this is a central problem in various application domains, including healthcare, social sciences, and online advertising.
1 code implementation • 19 Jun 2017 • Ahmed M. Alaa, Michael Weisz, Mihaela van der Schaar
The network is trained in alternating phases, where in each phase we use the training examples of one of the two potential outcomes (treated and control populations) to update the weights of the shared layers and the respective outcome-specific layers.
no code implementations • 22 May 2017 • Ahmed M. Alaa, Jinsung Yoon, Scott Hu, Mihaela van der Schaar
We report the development and validation of a data-driven real-time risk score that provides timely assessments for the clinical acuity of ward patients based on their temporal lab tests and vital signs, which allows for timely intensive care unit (ICU) admissions.
no code implementations • ICML 2017 • Ahmed M. Alaa, Scott Hu, Mihaela van der Schaar
Our model captures "informatively sampled" patient episodes: the clinicians' decisions on when to observe a hospitalized patient's vital signs and lab tests over time are represented by a marked Hawkes process, with intensity parameters that are modulated by the patient's latent clinical states, and with observable physiological data (mark process) modeled as a switching multi-task Gaussian process.
1 code implementation • NeurIPS 2017 • Ahmed M. Alaa, Mihaela van der Schaar
Stemming from the potential outcomes model, we propose a novel multi- task learning framework in which factual and counterfactual outcomes are mod- eled as the outputs of a function in a vector-valued reproducing kernel Hilbert space (vvRKHS).
no code implementations • 18 Dec 2016 • Ahmed M. Alaa, Mihaela van der Schaar
Modeling continuous-time physiological processes that manifest a patient's evolving clinical states is a key step in approaching many problems in healthcare.
no code implementations • 16 Nov 2016 • Ahmed M. Alaa, Jinsung Yoon, Scott Hu, Mihaela van der Schaar
Critically ill patients in regular wards are vulnerable to unanticipated clinical dete- rioration which requires timely transfer to the intensive care unit (ICU).
no code implementations • 12 Nov 2016 • Jinsung Yoon, Ahmed M. Alaa, Martin Cadeiras, Mihaela van der Schaar
Organ transplants can improve the life expectancy and quality of life for the recipient but carries the risk of serious post-operative complications, such as septic shock and organ rejection.
no code implementations • 27 Oct 2016 • Ahmed M. Alaa, Jinsung Yoon, Scott Hu, Mihaela van der Schaar
Objective: In this paper, we develop a personalized real-time risk scoring algorithm that provides timely and granular assessments for the clinical acuity of ward patients based on their (temporal) lab tests and vital signs; the proposed risk scoring system ensures timely intensive care unit (ICU) admissions for clinically deteriorating patients.
no code implementations • NeurIPS 2016 • Ahmed M. Alaa, Mihaela van der Schaar
We develop a Bayesian model for decision-making under time pressure with endogenous information acquisition.
no code implementations • 3 May 2016 • Ahmed M. Alaa, Jinsung Yoon, Scott Hu, Mihaela van der Schaar
We develop a personalized real time risk scoring algorithm that provides timely and granular assessments for the clinical acuity of ward patients based on their (temporal) lab tests and vital signs.
no code implementations • 1 Feb 2016 • Ahmed M. Alaa, Kyeong H. Moon, William Hsu, Mihaela van der Schaar
A cluster of patients is a set of patients with similar features (e. g. age, breast density, family history, etc.