arXiv Machine Learning

Predicting Male Domestic Violence Using Explainable Ensemble Learning and Exploratory Data Analysis

The paper presents a data‑driven study of male domestic violence (MDV) in Bangladesh, using exploratory data analysis to uncover patterns such as verbal abuse prevalence and the influence of financial dependency. It evaluates 10 traditional ML models, 3 deep learning models, and 2 ensemble models, ultimately proposing a stacking ensemble with ANN and CatBoost base classifiers and Logistic Regression meta‑model that achieves 95% accuracy and 99.29% AUC. Explainable AI techniques (SHAP, LIME) and statistical validation confirm the model’s superior performance and highlight key features driving predictions.

arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 18

Machine-Learning Assessment of the Predictive Value of Inflammatory Biomarkers for Cognitive Impairment in an Older Hispanic Adult Cohort

The study evaluates whether inflammatory biomarkers can predict cognitive impairment in older Hispanic adults using interpretable machine learning on a small clinical dataset. A leakage‑safe Bernoulli/Categorical Naive Bayes model was trained on 165 participants from the Panama Aging Research Initiative, with continuous predictors discretized via supervised chi‑square and income treated categorically. The biomarker I‑309 (CCL1) emerged as the sole reliable incremental predictor, boosting ROC‑AUC from 0.630 to 0.740 and achieving statistically significant performance across repeated cross‑validation and random partitions.

By Antony Garcia, Gabrielle Britton, Alcibiades Villarreal, Diana Oviedo, Giselle Rangel, Xinming Huang