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CRISP-NAM: Competing Risks Interpretable Survival Prediction with Neural Additive Models

Machine Learning 2025-09-26 v5

Abstract

Competing risks are crucial considerations in survival modelling, particularly in healthcare domains where patients may experience multiple distinct event types. We propose CRISP-NAM (Competing Risks Interpretable Survival Prediction with Neural Additive Models), an interpretable neural additive model for competing risks survival analysis which extends the neural additive architecture to model cause-specific hazards while preserving feature-level interpretability. Each feature contributes independently to risk estimation through dedicated neural networks, allowing for visualization of complex non-linear relationships between covariates and each competing risk. We demonstrate competitive performance on multiple datasets compared to existing approaches.

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@article{arxiv.2505.21360,
  title  = {CRISP-NAM: Competing Risks Interpretable Survival Prediction with Neural Additive Models},
  author = {Dhanesh Ramachandram and Ananya Raval},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.21360},
  year   = {2025}
}

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Added missing subsections and minor bug fixes

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