arXiv Machine Learning

Bayesian Federated Cause-of-Death Classification and Quantification Under Distribution Shift

arXiv:2505. 02257v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In regions lacking medically certified causes of death, verbal autopsy (VA) is a widely used tool to ascertain the cause of death through interviews with caregivers.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 24

Federated Survival Analysis in Healthcare: A Multi-Model Evaluation on Cross-Institutional Heterogeneous Breast Cancer Data

arXiv:2606. 23871v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Survival analysis is central to clinical decision-making, yet reliable time-to-event models require large, diverse cohorts that are rarely available at a single institution, while privacy regulations restrict the centralization of patient data.

By Natalia Moreno-Blasco, Anusha Ihalapathirana, Pekka Siirtola, Miguel Fernandez-de-Retana
arXiv Statistics ML
Aug 28

An Accurate and Single-Communication Federated Inference Algorithm

The paper introduces a federated inference algorithm that requires only a single communication round between participating centers and a coordinating server. By extending previous second‑order Taylor expansion methods to third‑order expansions, the algorithm more accurately approximates local log‑likelihood functions, especially when local sample sizes are small. Simulation studies based on real data show that this higher‑order approach improves inference accuracy while maintaining privacy, communication efficiency, and scalability for collaborative biomedical and epidemiological research.

By Laura Montagnani, Anthony CC Coolen, Marianne A Jonker
arXiv AI
Sep 4

FedPS: Federated Preprocessing for structured data via aggregated Statistics

FedPS is a federated preprocessing framework that uses aggregated statistics to address missing values, inconsistent formats, and heterogeneous feature scales in structured data. It employs data-sketching techniques to summarize local datasets efficiently, enabling federated algorithms for feature scaling, encoding, discretization, and missing-value imputation. The framework also extends preprocessing-related models, such as Bayesian Linear Regression, to both horizontal and vertical federated learning settings, offering communication‑efficient and consistent pipelines for practical deployments.

By Xuefeng Xu, Graham Cormode
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 21

Tabular Foundation Models Can Do Survival Analysis

arXiv:2601. 22259v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: While tabular foundation models have achieved remarkable success in classification and regression, adapting them to model time-to-event outcomes for survival analysis is non-trivial due to right-censoring, where data observations may end before the event of interest occurs.

By Da In Kim, Wei Siang Lai, Kelly W. Zhang
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jun 3

Federated Learning for Multi-Center Sepsis Early Prediction with Privacy-Preserving

Privacy-sensitive and distributed characteristics of multi-center medical data bring severe obstacles to centralized modeling for accurate early prediction of sepsis. Federated learning (FL) has attracted growing attention as a promising framework for collaborative model development, as it allows multiple institutions to jointly train predictive models without directly sharing or centralizing raw data.