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Nigam H. Shah

2 accepted papers

2024

MedAlign: A Clinician-Generated Dataset for Instruction Following with Electronic Medical Records

AAAI 2024technical

The ability of large language models (LLMs) to follow natural language instructions with human-level fluency suggests many opportunities in healthcare to reduce administrative burden and improve quality of care. However, evaluating LLMs on realistic text generation tasks for healthcare remains chall…

Cited by 67SourcePDFScholar
2019

Countdown Regression: Sharp and Calibrated Survival Predictions

UAI 2019poster

Probabilistic survival predictions (i.e. personalized survival curves) from models trained with Maximum Likelihood Estimation (MLE) can have high, and sometimes unacceptably high variance. The field of meteorology, where the paradigm of maximizing sharpness subject to calibration is popular, has ad…