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LLM4CKD: Large Language Models for Early Stage Chronic Kidney Disease Screening

The paper introduces LLM4CKD, a framework that uses large language models (LLMs) for early chronic kidney disease (CKD) screening without task‑specific training. By employing clinically selected tabular features and structured prompt templates, the authors evaluate LLMs in zero‑shot and few‑shot settings against traditional machine learning, deep learning, and tabular foundation models. Results show that LLMs can match or outperform conventional methods in low‑data scenarios, though their performance varies with model choice and input complexity, highlighting a trade‑off between data efficiency and stability.

arXiv Machine Learning

Jul 15

From Many to Meaningful: Feature-Guided Zero-Shot Chronic Kidney Disease Screening Using Large Language Models

arXiv:2607. 12260v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Early screening of chronic kidney disease (CKD) is essential for preventing irreversible progression; however, many machine learning (ML)-based screening methods remain difficult to deploy in community and resource-limited screening settings due to their reliance on large labeled datasets, resource-intensive pathology tests, or high-dimensional clinical features, and limited robustness to population and distributional shifts.

By Muhammad Ashad Kabir, Sirajam Munira

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arXiv AI

Jun 10

MedFeat: Model-Aware and Explainability-Driven Feature Engineering with LLMs for Clinical Tabular Prediction

arXiv:2603. 02221v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In clinical tabular prediction, classical machine learning models with feature engineering often outperform neural methods.

By Zizheng Zhang, Yiming Li, Justin Xu, Jinyu Wang, Rui Wang, Lei Song, Jiang Bian, David W Eyre, Jingjing Fu

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arXiv AI

Jun 29

Chronic Kidney Disease Prognosis Prediction Using Transformer

arXiv:2511. 02340v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) affects nearly 10\% of the global population and often progresses to end-stage renal failure.

By Yohan Lee, Dong Gyun Kang, SeHoon Park, Sa-Yoon Park, Kwangsoo Kim

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arXiv Machine Learning

Jun 26

LLMTabBench: Evaluating LLMs on Binary Tabular Classification From Zero to Few Shots

arXiv:2605. 24417v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Supervised classification on tabular data remains a central machine learning task, but its dependence on large labeled datasets limits its applicability in data-scarce settings.

By Daria Grushina, Kseniia Kuvshinova, Alina Kostromina, Aziz Temirkhanov, Mile Mitrovic, Dmitry Simakov

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arXiv Machine Learning

Aug 4

Development and Validation of a Dynamic Kidney Failure Prediction Model based on Deep Learning: A Real-World Study with External Validation

arXiv:2501. 16388v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Background: Chronic kidney disease (CKD), a progressive disease with high morbidity and mortality, has become a significant global public health problem.

By Jingying Ma, Jinwei Wang, Lanlan Lu, Zhiqin Jiang, Mengling Feng, Feifei Zhang, Peng Shen, Yexiang Sun, Shenda Hong, Luxia Zhang

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arXiv AI

Jul 21

Retrieval-Augmented Interpretable Learning: Towards Task-Specific Zero-Shot Models in Healthcare

arXiv:2607. 17508v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We introduce Retrieval-Augmented Interpretable Learning (RAIL), a probabilistic meta-learning framework for zero-shot generation of task-specific interpretable models that synthesizes coefficient-space structure from natural-language task descriptions and a memory of previously learned task-specific predictors.

By Sazan Mahbub, Caleb Ellington, Zhiyuan Li, Yixin Yang, Souvik Kundu, Ben Lengerich, Eric P. Xing

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arXiv AI

Jun 16

Medical Heuristic Learning: An LLM-Driven Framework for Interpretable and Auditable Clinical Decision Rules

arXiv:2606. 16337v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Predictive modeling for clinical tabular data is central to clinical decision support and therefore requires not only strong predictive performance but also transparent decision logic.

By Wei Xu, Ke Yang, Gang Luo, Keli Zheng, Lingyan Hu, Jing Wang, Kefeng Li

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arXiv Machine Learning

Jun 18

Zero-Shot Active Feature Acquisition via LLM-Elicitation

arXiv:2606. 18933v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Active feature acquisition (AFA) sequentially selects which features to observe to reach a classification or ranking decision.

By Binyamin Perets, Natalie Mendelson, Shiran Vainberg, Yehuda Chowers, Shai Shen-Orr, Shie Mannor

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arXiv Machine Learning

Jul 20

LLM4EHR: Aligning Clinical Time Series with Medical Event Sequences via Large Language Models

arXiv:2607. 15447v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent research in clinical machine learning, focusing on outcome predictions in intensive care unit (ICU), has shifted from bespoke supervised models to foundation models, utilising modern representation learning methods.

By Jingteng Li, Alexander Capstick, Louise Rigny, Iona Biggart, Neil J Sebire, Payam Barnaghi

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arXiv AI

Sep 3

General Demographic Pre-trained Models for Enhancing Predictive Performance Across Diseases and Population

The paper introduces the General Demographic Pre-trained (GDP) model, a lightweight foundation model that learns representations from the two most common clinical attributes—age and sex. By optimizing encoding and visit‑reordering strategies, GDP embeddings are shown to improve predictive performance when concatenated with raw features across various disease and geographic cohorts. The model outperforms several state‑of‑the‑art tabular foundation models and tree‑based algorithms, demonstrating that enriched demographic embeddings can enhance classification tasks while remaining fully compatible with standard classifiers.

By Li-Chin Chen, Ji-Tian Sheu, Yuh-Jue Chuang

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arXiv Machine Learning

Jul 9

Counterfactual Modeling with Fine-Tuned LLMs for Health Intervention Design and Sensor Data Augmentation

arXiv:2601. 14590v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Counterfactual explanations (CFEs) provide human-centric interpretability by identifying the minimal, actionable changes required to alter a machine learning model's prediction.

By Shovito Barua Soumma, Asiful Arefeen, Stephanie M. Carpenter, Melanie Hingle, Hassan Ghasemzadeh

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arXiv Machine Learning

Jun 8

GlucoFM-Bench: Benchmarking Time-Series Foundation Models for Blood Glucose Forecasting

arXiv:2606. 06881v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Blood glucose forecasting models are foundational for modern diabetes management systems, as reliable short-term predictions can enable proactive interventions, support automated insulin delivery, and reduce the risk of hypo- and hyperglycemic events.

By Baiying Lu, Zhaohui Liang, Ryan Pontius, Shengpu Tang, Temiloluwa Prioleau

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