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The paper introduces structured machine learning regressions for heavy-tailed dependent panel data potentially sampled at different frequencies. We focus on the sparse-group LASSO regularization. This type of regularization can take…

Econometrics · Economics 2021-11-23 Andrii Babii , Ryan T. Ball , Eric Ghysels , Jonas Striaukas

Short-term traffic volume prediction is crucial for intelligent transportation system and there are many researches focusing on this field. However, most of these existing researches concentrated on refining model architecture and ignored…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Xiannan Huang , Shuhan Qiu , Yan Cheng , Quan Yuan , Chao Yang

Continual learning, an important aspect of artificial intelligence and machine learning research, focuses on developing models that learn and adapt to new tasks while retaining previously acquired knowledge. Existing continual learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Liwei Kang , Wee Sun Lee

Intensive care unit (ICU) is a crucial hospital department that handles life-threatening cases. Nowadays machine learning (ML) is being leveraged in healthcare ubiquitously. In recent years, management of ICU became one of the most…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Alexander Gabitashvili , Philipp Kellmeyer

Distributed storage systems are known to be susceptible to long tails in response time. In modern online storage systems such as Bing, Facebook, and Amazon, the long tails of the service latency are of particular concern. with 99.9th…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-04-27 Vaneet Aggarwal , Abubakr O. Al-Abbasi , Jingxian Fan , Tian Lan

Operations Research approaches to surgical scheduling are becoming increasingly popular in both theory and practice. Often these models neglect stochasticity in order to reduce the computational complexity of the problem. We wish to provide…

Applications · Statistics 2019-09-12 Belinda Spratt , Erhan Kozan

Background: Accurate prediction of surgical case duration underpins operating room (OR) scheduling, yet existing models often depend on site- or surgeon-specific inputs and rarely undergo external validation, limiting generalisability.…

Applications · Statistics 2025-11-13 Daijiro Kabata , Mari Ito , Tokito Koga , Kazuma Yunoki

Patients resuscitated from cardiac arrest (CA) face a high risk of neurological disability and death, however pragmatic methods are lacking for accurate and reliable prognostication. The aim of this study was to build computational models…

Surgical scheduling optimization is an active area of research. However, few algorithms to optimize surgical scheduling are implemented and see sustained use. An algorithm is more likely to be implemented, if it allows for surgeon autonomy,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Jin Xie , Teng Zhang , Jose Blanchet , Peter Glynn , Matthew Randolph , David Scheinker

OBJECTIVE: To test the hypothesis that variation in care coordination is related to LOS. DESIGN We applied a spectral co-clustering methodology to simultaneously infer groups of patients and care coordination patterns, in the form of…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2017-05-30 You Chen , Mayur B. Patel , Candace D. McNaughton , Bradley A. Malin

Longer stays at healthcare facilities, driven by uncertain patient load, inefficient patient flow, and lack of real-time information about medical care, pose significant challenges for patients and healthcare providers. Providing patients…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-10 Najiya Fatma , Varun Ramamohan

Risk prediction is central to both clinical medicine and public health. While many machine learning models have been developed to predict mortality, they are rarely applied in the clinical literature, where classification tasks typically…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-12-05 Maggie Makar , Marzyeh Ghassemi , David Cutler , Ziad Obermeyer

We propose combined allocation, assignment, sequencing, and scheduling problems under uncertainty involving multiple operation rooms (ORs), anesthesiologists, and surgeries, as well as methodologies for solving such problems. Specifically,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-15 Man Yiu Tsang , Karmel S. Shehadeh , Frank E. Curtis , Beth Hochman , Tricia E. Brentjens

Patient flow analysis can be studied from a clinical and or operational perspective using simulation. Traditional statistical methods such as stochastic distribution methods have been used to construct patient flow simulation submodels such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Tesfamariam M. Abuhay , Adane Mamuye , Stewart Robinson , Sergey V. Kovalchuk

The random initialization of weights of a multilayer perceptron makes it possible to model its training process as a Las Vegas algorithm, i.e. a randomized algorithm which stops when some required training error is obtained, and whose…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2011-11-09 Manuel Cebrian , Ivan Cantador

Accurate prediction of Length of Stay (LOS) in hospitals is crucial for improving healthcare services, resource management, and cost efficiency. This paper presents StayLTC, a multimodal deep learning framework developed to forecast…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Sudeshna Jana , Manjira Sinha , Tirthankar Dasgupta

Robots rely on motion planning to navigate safely and efficiently while performing various tasks. In this paper, we investigate motion planning through Bayesian inference, where motion plans are inferred based on planning objectives and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Ali Vaziri , Iman Askari , Huazhen Fang

In this work, we show how real-time length-of-stay (LOS) predictions can be used to divert outpatients from their assigned facility to other facilities with lesser congestion. We illustrate the implementation of this diversion mechanism for…

Applications · Statistics 2022-03-04 Najiya Fatma , Varun Ramamohan

Modal split prediction in transportation networks has the potential to support network operators in managing traffic congestion and improving transit service reliability. We focus on the problem of hourly prediction of the fraction of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Aron Brenner , Manxi Wu , Saurabh Amin

Several applications in time series forecasting require predicting multiple steps ahead. Despite the vast amount of literature in the topic, both classical and recent deep learning based approaches have mostly focused on minimising…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Ignacio Hounie , Javier Porras-Valenzuela , Alejandro Ribeiro