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Few Bayesian methods for analyzing high-dimensional sparse survival data provide scalable variable selection, effect estimation and uncertainty quantification. Such methods often either sacrifice uncertainty quantification by computing…
Recent advances in genomic sequencing technology have resulted in an abundance of genome sequence data. Despite the progress in interpreting those data, there remains a broad scope for their translation into clinical and societal benefits.…
We introduce a parameterization method called Neural Bayes which allows computing statistical quantities that are in general difficult to compute and opens avenues for formulating new objectives for unsupervised representation learning.…
We unify empirical Bayes and variational Bayes for approximating unnormalized densities. This framework, named unnormalized variational Bayes (UVB), is based on formulating a latent variable model for the random variable $Y=X+N(0,\sigma^2…
Latent variable models (LVMs) represent observed variables by parameterized functions of latent variables. Prominent examples of LVMs for unsupervised learning are probabilistic PCA or probabilistic SC which both assume a weighted linear…
Although bulk transcriptomic analyses have significantly contributed to an enhanced comprehension of multifaceted diseases, their exploration capacity is impeded by the heterogeneous compositions of biological samples. Indeed, by averaging…
Spectral clustering is an effective methodology for unsupervised learning. Most traditional spectral clustering algorithms involve a separate two-step procedure and apply the transformed new representations for the final clustering results.…
Unified multimodal large language models (U-MLLMs) have demonstrated impressive performance in visual understanding and generation in an end-to-end pipeline. Compared with generation-only models (e.g., Stable Diffusion), U-MLLMs may raise…
Precision medicine is a paradigm shift in healthcare relying heavily on genomics data. However, the complexity of biological interactions, the large number of genes as well as the lack of comparisons on the analysis of data, remain a…
Purpose. Athlete monitoring is constrained by small cohorts, heterogeneous biomarker scales, limited feasibility of repeated sampling, and the lack of reliable injury ground truth. These limitations reduce the interpretability and utility…
Motivation: Gene selection has become a common task in most gene expression studies. The objective of such research is often to identify the smallest possible set of genes that can still achieve good predictive performance. The problem of…
Sampling multiple responses improves language model reasoning, but uniform compute allocation is inefficient: easy questions are over-sampled while hard questions remain under-explored. We propose Uncertainty-Aware Budget Allocation (UAB),…
Recent advancements in multi-modal large language models (MLLMs) have led to substantial improvements in visual understanding, primarily driven by sophisticated modality alignment strategies. However, predominant approaches prioritize…
This work provides the first inductive definition of useful CBV evaluation. For that, we first restrict the substitution operation in the Value Substitution Calculus to be linear, yielding the LCBV strategy. We then further restrict…
Detecting vulnerabilities is vital for software security, yet deep learning-based vulnerability detectors (DLVD) face a data shortage, which limits their effectiveness. Data augmentation can potentially alleviate the data shortage, but…
Clustering methods have led to a number of important discoveries in bioinformatics and beyond. A major challenge in their use is determining which clusters represent important underlying structure, as opposed to spurious sampling artifacts.…
Comprehensive discovery of structural variation (SV) in human genomes from DNA sequencing requires the integration of multiple alignment signals including read-pair, split-read and read-depth. However, owing to inherent technical…
In many biomedical research, multiple views of data (e.g., genomics, proteomics) are available, and a particular interest might be the detection of sample subgroups characterized by specific groups of variables. Biclustering methods are…
Background and Objective: Diabetes presents a significant challenge to healthcare due to the negative impact of poor blood sugar control on health and associated complications. Computer simulation platforms, notably exemplified by the…
With the advance of high-throughput genotyping and sequencing technologies, it becomes feasible to comprehensive evaluate the role of massive genetic predictors in disease prediction. There exists, therefore, a critical need for developing…