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Claire Najjuuko
dblp:435/4510
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2026
—ORCID · unresolved
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
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 · 100% | |
| Interdisciplinary, comprehensive, and emerging computing
1 paper |
Medical and health informatics · 100% |
Topics — the 2 heaviest of 2, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Machine learning › Trustworthy machine learning
calibration |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | CURA: Clinical Uncertainty Risk Alignment for Language Model-Based Risk Prediction · ACL (1) 2026 |
Medical and health informatics › clinical prediction
clinical risk prediction |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | CURA: Clinical Uncertainty Risk Alignment for Language Model-Based Risk Prediction · ACL (1) 2026 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
uncertainty fine-tuning · 2.0label smoothing · 2.0bi-level uncertainty objective · 2.0
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | CURA: Clinical Uncertainty Risk Alignment for Language Model-Based Risk PredictionabstractClinical language models (LMs) are increasingly applied to support clinical risk prediction from free-text notes, yet their uncertainty estimates often remain poorly calibrated and clinically unreliable.In this work, we propose Clinical Uncertainty Risk Alignment (CURA), a framework that aligns clinical LM-based risk estimates and uncertainty with both individual error likelihoods and cohort-level ambiguities.CURA first fine-tunes domain-specific clinical LMs to obtain task-adapted patient embeddings, and then performs uncertainty fine-tuning of a multi-head classifier using a bi-level uncertainty objective.Specifically, an individuallevel calibration term aligns predictive uncertainty with each patient's likelihood of error, while a cohort-aware regularizer pulls risk estimates toward event rates in their local neighborhoods in the embedding space and places extra weight on ambiguous cohorts near the decision boundary.We further show that this cohort-aware term can be interpreted as a crossentropy loss with neighborhood-informed soft labels, providing a label-smoothing view of our method.Extensive experiments on MIMIC-IV clinical risk prediction tasks across various clinical LMs show that CURA consistently improves calibration metrics without substantially compromising discrimination.Further analysis illustrates that CURA reduces overconfident false reassurance and yields more trustworthy uncertainty estimates for downstream clinical decision support. Ziqi Xu 0002, Claire Najjuuko, Charles Alba, Chenyang Lu 0001 |
ACL (1) | 3 |