arXiv Machine Learning

Survival of the fittest Cox model: Pivotal variable selection for time-to-event data

arXiv:2510. 19374v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We revisit Cox's proportional hazards model to improve variable selection in survival analysis.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 4

SurvPFN: Towards Foundation Models for Survival Predictions

arXiv:2606. 04564v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tabular foundation models (TFMs) have made rapid progress in standard classification and regression, but time-to-event survival prediction tasks have remained largely untouched.

By Samuel B\"ohm (Institute of Epidemiology and Prevention, Medical Center - University of Freiburg, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany), Lennart Purucker (Department of Computer Science, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany, PriorLabs, Freiburg, Germany), Frank Hutter (Department of Computer Science, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany, PriorLabs, Freiburg, Germany), Pascal Schlosser (Institute of Epidemiology and Prevention, Medical Center - University of Freiburg, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany, Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, US, CIBSS - Centre for Integrative Biological Signalling Studies, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany)
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 22

When Are Scoring Rules Proper? Bridging Theory and Practice in Survival Model Evaluation

arXiv:2212. 05260v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Proper scoring rules encourage probabilistic predictions that match the true underlying distribution and are central to model evaluation, with increasing relevance in automated workflows such as AutoML.

By John Zobolas, Raphael Sonabend, Riccardo De Bin, Johannes Piller, Philipp Kopper, Lukas Burk, Andreas Bender
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jun 4

Proper Scoring Rules for Right-Censored Survival Data

Proper scoring rules provide a rigorous theoretical basis for the training and evaluation of probabilistic forecasts. However, in the presence of right censoring, the event time is only partially observed, rendering conventional scoring rules inapplicable in their standard form.

arXiv Statistics ML
6d ago

High-dimensional censored MIDAS logistic regression for corporate survival forecasting

The paper introduces a high‑dimensional censored MIDAS logistic regression for forecasting corporate distress, addressing right censoring, high‑dimensional mixed‑frequency predictors, and mixed‑frequency data. It uses inverse probability weighting for censoring, a sparse‑group penalty for estimation, and develops a de‑sparsified estimator with asymptotic theory that accounts for censoring and heavy tails. The method is validated via Monte Carlo simulations and applied to Chinese‑listed firms, with implementation available in the R package Survivalml.

By Wei Miao, Jad Beyhum, Jonas Striaukas, Ingrid Van Keilegom
arXiv Statistics ML
Aug 25

Random Hazard Forests

Random Hazard Forests (RHF) is a survival tree ensemble that models how a patient's hazard changes over continuous time as new measurements arrive. RHF directly estimates a nonparametric hazard likelihood for predictable covariate processes, using an efficient working model to guide tree construction and then estimating flexible time‑varying hazards at each terminal node. By routing each tree based on the covariate state immediately before each time point, RHF can handle irregular and asynchronous covariate updates, and averaging across trees yields a pathwise hazard estimate that accurately captures changing risk in simulations and an intensive‑care application.

By Hemant Ishwaran, Eileen M. Hsich, Udaya B. Kogalur, Donald K. K. Lee