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Purpose: With advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) for healthcare, the need arises for competitive open-source models to protect the public interest. This work contributes to the field of open medical LLMs by optimizing key stages…

Amid the expanding use of pre-training data, the phenomenon of benchmark dataset leakage has become increasingly prominent, exacerbated by opaque training processes and the often undisclosed inclusion of supervised data in contemporary…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Ruijie Xu , Zengzhi Wang , Run-Ze Fan , Pengfei Liu

The Affordable Care Act introduced a revenue transfer formula that requires insurance plans with generally healthier enrollees to pay funds into a revenue transfer pool for to reimburse plans with generally less healthy enrollees. For a…

Applications · Statistics 2019-03-20 Ishan Muzumdar , Donald Richards

Many marketing applications, including credit card incentive programs, offer rewards to customers who exceed specific spending thresholds to encourage increased consumption. Quantifying the causal effect of these thresholds on customers is…

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The emergence of Open Banking represents a significant shift in financial data management, influencing financial institutions' market dynamics and marketing strategies. This increased competition creates opportunities and challenges, as…

Matrix-free nanocomposites made from polymer grafted nanoparticles (PGN) represent a paradigm shift in materials science because they greatly improve nanoparticle dispersion and offer greater tunability over rheological and mechanical…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-07-19 Zhenghao Wu , Subhadeep Pal , Sinan Keten

The utilisation of artificial intelligence in medicine and healthcare has led to successful clinical applications in several domains. The conflict between data usage and privacy protection requirements in such systems must be resolved for…

A diffusion auction refers to a selling process conducted over a social network, where each participant submits a bid and may invite other potential buyers to join the auction. Although various mechanisms have been proposed, none of them…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Xinlun Zhang , Zhechen Li , Yongzhi Cao , Yu Huang , Hanpin Wang

Interpretable machine learning has become a strong competitor for traditional black-box models. However, the possible loss of the predictive performance for gaining interpretability is often inevitable, putting practitioners in a dilemma of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-13 Tong Wang , Qihang Lin

If you recommend a product to me and I buy it, how much should you be paid by the seller? And if your sole interest is to maximize the amount paid to you by the seller for a sequence of recommendations, how should you recommend optimally if…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2009-11-10 Paul Dütting , Monika Henzinger , Ingmar Weber

This study examines the mechanism design problem for public goods provision in a large economy with $n$ independent agents. We propose a class of dominant-strategy incentive compatible and ex-post individually rational mechanisms, which we…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2023-05-17 Jin Xi , Haitian Xie

This paper considers the optimal dividend payment problem in piecewise-deterministic compound Poisson risk models. The objective is to maximize the expected discounted dividend payout up to the time of ruin. We provide a comparative study…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-08-02 Runhuan Feng , Hans Volkmer , Shuaiqi Zhang , Chao Zhu

We introduce a new class of automated market maker (AMM), the \emph{partially active automated market maker} (PA-AMM). PA-AMM divides its reserves into two parts, the active and the passive parts, and uses only the active part for trading.…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2026-02-11 Sunghun Ko

In auto insurance, a Bonus-Malus System (BMS) is commonly used as a posteriori risk classification mechanism to set the premium for the next contract period based on a policyholder's claim history. Even though recent literature reports…

Applications · Statistics 2020-03-05 Rosy Oh , Joseph H. T. Kim , Jae Youn Ahn

Application of interpretable machine learning techniques on medical datasets facilitate early and fast diagnoses, along with getting deeper insight into the data. Furthermore, the transparency of these models increase trust among…

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Traditional Business Process Management (BPM) struggles with rigidity, opacity, and scalability in dynamic environments while emerging Large Language Models (LLMs) present transformative opportunities alongside risks. This paper explores…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Peter Pfeiffer , Alexander Rombach , Maxim Majlatow , Nijat Mehdiyev

In this paper, we present our software-supported method for analyzing the economic feasibility of business models. The method integrates the business models and business processes perspectives for analyzing how a company appropriates the…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-09-30 Egon Lüftenegger , Selver Softic

As business processes become increasingly complex, effectively modeling decision points, their likelihood, and resource consumption is crucial for optimizing operations. To address this challenge, this paper introduces a formal extension of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Emanuele Chini , Pietro Sala , Andrea Simonetti , Omid Zare

Objective: To enable privacy-preserving learning of high quality generative and discriminative machine learning models from distributed electronic health records. Methods and Results: We describe general and scalable strategy to build…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-06-19 Marina Blanton , Ah Reum Kang , Subhadeep Karan , Jaroslaw Zola