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The broad adoption of Electronic Health Records (EHR) has led to vast amounts of data being accumulated on a patient's history, diagnosis, prescriptions, and lab tests. Advances in recommender technologies have the potential to utilize this…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Suman Bhoi , Lee Mong Li , Wynne Hsu

In this paper, we address the problem of reference tracking for uncertain nonlinear systems. Since collecting data from the target system (i.e., the system of interest) is often challenging, our objective is to design optimal controllers…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Jiaqi Yan , Ankush Chakrabarty , Niklas Schmid , John Lygeros , Alisa Rupenyan

In practical scenarios, the effectiveness of sequential recommendation systems is hindered by the user cold-start problem, which arises due to limited interactions for accurately determining user preferences. Previous studies have attempted…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Mohammmadmahdi Maheri , Reza Abdollahzadeh , Bardia Mohammadi , Mina Rafiei , Jafar Habibi , Hamid R. Rabiee

Deep neural network based recommendation systems have achieved great success as information filtering techniques in recent years. However, since model training from scratch requires sufficient data, deep learning-based recommendation…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Chunyang Wang , Yanmin Zhu , Haobing Liu , Tianzi Zang , Jiadi Yu , Feilong Tang

Recommending medications for patients using electronic health records (EHRs) is a crucial data mining task for an intelligent healthcare system. It can assist doctors in making clinical decisions more efficiently. However, the inherent…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Yang An , Liang Zhang , Mao You , Xueqing Tian , Bo Jin , Xiaopeng Wei

Medical professionals frequently work in a data constrained setting to provide insights across a unique demographic. A few medical observations, for instance, informs the diagnosis and treatment of a patient. This suggests a unique setting…

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The notion of meta-mining has appeared recently and extends the traditional meta-learning in two ways. First it does not learn meta-models that provide support only for the learning algorithm selection task but ones that support the whole…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-10-05 Phong Nguyen , Jun Wang , Melanie Hilario , Alexandros Kalousis

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an autoimmune condition caused when patients' immune system mistakenly targets their own tissue. Machine learning (ML) has the potential to identify patterns in patient electronic health records (EHR) to…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2022-10-25 Shengjia Chen , Nikunj Gupta , Woodward B. Galbraith , Valay Shah , Jacopo Cirrone

Generative, explainable, and flexible recommender systems, derived using Large Language Models (LLM) are promising and poorly adapted to the cold-start user situation, where there is little to no history of interaction. The current…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Yushang Zhao , Huijie Shen , Dannier Li , Lu Chang , Chengrui Zhou , Yinuo Yang

User cold-start recommendation is a long-standing challenge for recommender systems due to the fact that only a few interactions of cold-start users can be exploited. Recent studies seek to address this challenge from the perspective of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Xixun Lin , Jia Wu , Chuan Zhou , Shirui Pan , Yanan Cao , Bin Wang

As a subset of machine learning, meta-learning, or learning to learn, aims at improving the model's capabilities by employing prior knowledge and experience. A meta-learning paradigm can appropriately tackle the conventional challenges of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Alireza Rafiei , Ronald Moore , Sina Jahromi , Farshid Hajati , Rishikesan Kamaleswaran

Extensive adoption of electronic health records (EHRs) offers opportunities for their use in various downstream clinical analyses. To accomplish this purpose, enriching an EHR cohort with external knowledge (e.g., standardized medical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Ahmad Wisnu Mulyadi , Heung-Il Suk

Distributed representations of medical concepts have been used to support downstream clinical tasks recently. Electronic Health Records (EHR) capture different aspects of patients' hospital encounters and serve as a rich source for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-01-07 Shaika Chowdhury , Chenwei Zhang , Philip S. Yu , Yuan Luo

Deep learning models exhibit state-of-the-art performance for many predictive healthcare tasks using electronic health records (EHR) data, but these models typically require training data volume that exceeds the capacity of most healthcare…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-24 Edward Choi , Cao Xiao , Walter F. Stewart , Jimeng Sun

Healthcare is becoming a more and more important research topic recently. With the growing data in the healthcare domain, it offers a great opportunity for deep learning to improve the quality of medical service. However, the complexity of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-01 Bo Yang , Lijun Wu

This paper proposes a recommender system to alleviate the cold-start problem that can estimate user preferences based on only a small number of items. To identify a user's preference in the cold state, existing recommender systems, such as…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-08-02 Hoyeop Lee , Jinbae Im , Seongwon Jang , Hyunsouk Cho , Sehee Chung

Data sparsity and cold-start problems are persistent challenges in recommendation systems. Cross-domain recommendation (CDR) is a promising solution that utilizes knowledge from the source domain to improve the recommendation performance in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Yanyu Chen , Yao Yao , Wai Kin Victor Chan , Li Xiao , Kai Zhang , Liang Zhang , Yun Ye

Click-through rate (CTR) prediction has been one of the most central problems in computational advertising. Lately, embedding techniques that produce low-dimensional representations of ad IDs drastically improve CTR prediction accuracies.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-29 Feiyang Pan , Shuokai Li , Xiang Ao , Pingzhong Tang , Qing He

Medication recommendation is a crucial task for assisting physicians in making timely decisions from longitudinal patient medical records. However, real-world EHR data present significant challenges due to the presence of rarely observed…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Yan Ting Chok , Soyon Park , Seungheun Baek , Hajung Kim , Junhyun Lee , Jaewoo Kang

The cold-start problem is quite challenging for existing recommendation models. Specifically, for the new items with only a few interactions, their ID embeddings are trained inadequately, leading to poor recommendation performance. Some…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Haonan Hu , Dazhong Rong , Jianhai Chen , Qinming He , Zhenguang Liu