Alex Treacher

dblp:239/1984 · also Alex H. Treacher · DBLP profile ↗
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2023
—ORCID · unresolved

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Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 since 2021

Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.

Artificial intelligence
1 paper
Trustworthy machine learning · 67% Efficient and distributed learning · 33%
Interdisciplinary, comprehensive, and emerging computing
1 paper
Medical and health informatics · 100%

Topics — the 3 heaviest of 4, each with the papers that count most for it

TopicWeightPapersLastEvidence papers
Machine learning › Trustworthy machine learning › causal machine learning
confounder removal
0.712023
Adversarially-Regularized Mixed Effects Deep Learning (ARMED) Models Improve Interpretability, Performance, and Generalization on Clustered (non-iid) Data · IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell. 2023
Machine learning › Trustworthy machine learning
interpretability
0.712023
Adversarially-Regularized Mixed Effects Deep Learning (ARMED) Models Improve Interpretability, Performance, and Generalization on Clustered (non-iid) Data · IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell. 2023
Medical and health informatics
clinical prediction
0.212023
Adversarially-Regularized Mixed Effects Deep Learning (ARMED) Models Improve Interpretability, Performance, and Generalization on Clustered (non-iid) Data · IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell. 2023

Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics

mixed-effects modeling · 1.3adversarial regularization · 1.3
YearPublicationVenuePosition
2023 Adversarially-Regularized Mixed Effects Deep Learning (ARMED) Models Improve Interpretability, Performance, and Generalization on Clustered (non-iid) Data
abstract
Natural science datasets frequently violate assumptions of independence. Samples may be clustered (e.g., by study site, subject, or experimental batch), leading to spurious associations, poor model fitting, and confounded analyses. While largely unaddressed in deep learning, this problem has been handled in the statistics community through mixed effects models, which separate cluster-invariant fixed effects from cluster-specific random effects. We propose a general-purpose framework for Adversarially-Regularized Mixed Effects Deep learning (ARMED) models through non-intrusive additions to existing neural networks: 1) an adversarial classifier constraining the original model to learn only cluster-invariant features, 2) a random effects subnetwork capturing cluster-specific features, and 3) an approach to apply random effects to clusters unseen during training. We apply ARMED to dense, convolutional, and autoencoder neural networks on 4 datasets including simulated nonlinear data, dementia prognosis and diagnosis, and live-cell image analysis. Compared to prior techniques, ARMED models better distinguish confounded from true associations in simulations and learn more biologically plausible features in clinical applications. They can also quantify inter-cluster variance and visualize cluster effects in data. Finally, ARMED matches or improves performance on data from clusters seen during training (5-28% relative improvement) and generalization to unseen clusters (2-9% relative improvement) versus conventional models.
Kevin P. Nguyen, Alex Treacher, Albert Montillo
IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell.2