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Matthew B.A. McDermott

3 accepted papers

2025

ACES: Automatic Cohort Extraction System for Event-Stream Datasets

ICLR 2025poster

Reproducibility remains a significant challenge in machine learning (ML) for healthcare. Datasets, model pipelines, and even task or cohort definitions are often private in this field, leading to a significant barrier in sharing, iterating, and understanding ML results on electronic health record (E…

2024

A Closer Look at AUROC and AUPRC under Class Imbalance

NeurIPS 2024poster

In machine learning (ML), a widespread claim is that the area under the precision-recall curve (AUPRC) is a superior metric for model comparison to the area under the receiver operating characteristic (AUROC) for tasks with class imbalance. This paper refutes this notion on two fronts. First, we the…

Cited by 46SourcePDFScholar
2021

Meta-learning to Improve Pre-training

NeurIPS 2021poster

Pre-training (PT) followed by fine-tuning (FT) is an effective method for training neural networks, and has led to significant performance improvements in many domains. PT can incorporate various design choices such as task and data reweighting strategies, augmentation policies, and noise models, a…

Cited by 39SourcePDFScholar