The paper introduces a new survival analysis algorithm that leverages reinforcement learning concepts, specifically a delayed target network inspired by Deep Q-Networks, to enforce temporal consistency across consecutive survival predictions. This framework supports complex architectures and mini‑batch, end‑to‑end training, and demonstrates improved performance on long‑sequence datasets compared to benchmarks. Ablation studies reveal that the delay in target updates significantly affects predictive accuracy and training stability.
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.
arXiv:2608. 13023v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Relational Deep Learning (RDL) models multi-tabular databases as temporal heterogeneous graphs to enable end-to-end representation learning.
arXiv:2608. 10969v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Healthcare data, such as Intensive Care Unit (ICU) records, comprise heterogeneous multivariate time series sampled at irregular intervals with pervasive missingness.
arXiv:2604. 01577v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We study out of distribution generalization in streaming tasks where models are trained on short sequences but must operate over much longer, unknown horizons under bounded memory.
DynSHAP is a SHAP-based framework designed for dynamic survival analysis, extending marginal SHAP estimators to handle time–feature pairs as players in the Shapley game. It introduces Temporal DynSHAP, which models linear dependencies across time and uses conditional sampling to improve explanations. Experiments on synthetic data and two real-world clinical datasets show that Temporal DynSHAP more accurately recovers temporally dependent features and provides faithful attributions for two DSA architectures, enabling medical experts to identify which patient information influenced predictions and when.
arXiv:2603.02935v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Offline meta-reinforcement learning seeks to learn a policy that generalizes to new related tasks online. Context-based methods infer a task repres...
arXiv:2511. 03836v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Deep Q-Networks (DQNs) estimate future returns by learning from transitions sampled from a replay buffer.
arXiv:2607. 00811v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Unsupervised pre-training on large-scale datasets has demonstrated significant potential for improving the sample efficiency and performance of Reinforcement Learning (RL).
The paper introduces SurgFUTR, a state‑change learning framework for predicting future events in endoscopic videos. Instead of forecasting raw observations, it classifies transitions between current and future states using a teacher‑student architecture and an Action Dynamics module. The authors also present SFPBench, a benchmark with five short‑ and long‑term prediction tasks, and demonstrate consistent improvements across multiple datasets and procedures, including cross‑procedure transfer.
arXiv:2606. 01028v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Medical treatment recommendation poses several challenges to reinforcement learning (RL): patient physiology evolves in continuous time, measurements and interventions are performed at irregular intervals, and treatment effects vary substantially across individuals.
arXiv:2512. 08029v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Clinical decision-making in oncology requires predicting dynamic disease evolution, a task current static AI predictors cannot perform.
arXiv:2606. 12006v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Predicting time-to-event outcomes such as mortality is a fundamental task in clinical decision-making, commonly addressed through survival analysis.