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Stephen Bach

Brown University
Eliot Horowitz Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department
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Jason Fries

Stanford University
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Data Science and of Medicine
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Jared Dunnmon

Co-Founder & Chief Scientist, Stealth Startup
Prev. Dir. of AI at DIU
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Fred Sala

Chief Scientist
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Snorkel AI
Assistant Professor @ University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Chris Ré

Co-Founder
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Snorkel AI
Professor @ Stanford University
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Ludwig Schmidt

Stanford University · LAION
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Karthik Narasimhan

Princeton University
Professor of Computer Science
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Yu Su

Ohio State University
Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering
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Lewis Tunstall

Hugging Face
Machine Learning Engineer
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Assessing the accuracy of automatic speech recognition for psychotherapy
Accurate transcription of audio recordings in psychotherapy would improve therapy effectiveness, clinician training, and safety monitoring. Although automatic speech recognition software is commercially available, its accuracy in mental health settings has not been well described. It is unclear which metrics and thresholds are appropriate for different clinical use cases, which may range from population descriptions to individual safety monitoring. Here we show that automatic speech recognition is feasible in psychotherapy, but further improvements in accuracy are needed before widespread use. Our HIPAA-compliant automatic speech recognition system demonstrated a transcription word error rate of 25%. For depression-related utterances, sensitivity was 80%...
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Assessing the accuracy of automatic speech recognition for psychotherapy

Accurate transcription of audio recordings in psychotherapy would improve therapy effectiveness, clinician training, and safety monitoring. Although automatic speech recognition software is commercially available, its accuracy in mental health settings has not been well described. It is unclear which metrics and thresholds are appropriate for different clinical use cases, which may range from population descriptions to individual safety monitoring. Here…

Jun 03, 2020

A. Miner, et al.

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Ivy: Instrumental Variable Synthesis for Causal Inference
A popular way to estimate the causal effect of a variable x on y from observational data is to use an instrumental variable (IV): a third variable z that affects y only through x. The more strongly z is associated with x, the more reliable the estimate is, but such strong IVs are difficult to find. Instead, practitioners combine more commonly available IV candidates—which are not necessarily strong, or even valid, IVs—into a single "summary" that is plugged into causal effect estimators in place of an IV. In genetic epidemiology, such approaches are known as allele scores. Allele scores require...
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Ivy: Instrumental Variable Synthesis for Causal Inference

A popular way to estimate the causal effect of a variable x on y from observational data is to use an instrumental variable (IV): a third variable z that affects y only through x. The more strongly z is associated with x, the more reliable the estimate is, but such strong IVs are difficult to find. Instead, practitioners combine more…

Jun 02, 2020

Z. Kuang, et al.

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The accuracy vs. coverage trade-off in patient-facing diagnosis models
A third of adults in America use the Internet to diagnose medical concerns, and online symptom checkers are increasingly part of this process. These tools are powered by diagnosis models similar to clinical decision support systems, with the primary difference being the coverage of symptoms and diagnoses. To be useful to patients and physicians, these models must have high accuracy while covering a meaningful space of symptoms and diagnoses. To the best of our knowledge, this paper is the first in studying the trade-off between the coverage of the model and its performance for diagnosis. To this end, we learn...
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The accuracy vs. coverage trade-off in patient-facing diagnosis models

A third of adults in America use the Internet to diagnose medical concerns, and online symptom checkers are increasingly part of this process. These tools are powered by diagnosis models similar to clinical decision support systems, with the primary difference being the coverage of symptoms and diagnoses. To be useful to patients and physicians, these models must have high accuracy…

May 30, 2020

A. Kannan, et al.

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Extracting chemical reactions from text using Snorkel
Enzymatic and chemical reactions are key for understanding biological processes in cells. Curated databases of chemical reactions exist but these databases struggle to keep up with the exponential growth of the biomedical literature. Conventional text mining pipelines provide tools to automatically extract entities and relationships from the scientific literature, and partially replace expert curation, but such machine learning frameworks often require a large amount of labeled training data and thus lack scalability for both larger document corpora and new relationship types. We developed an application of Snorkel, a weakly supervised learning framework, for extracting chemical reaction relationships from biomedical literature...
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Extracting chemical reactions from text using Snorkel

Enzymatic and chemical reactions are key for understanding biological processes in cells. Curated databases of chemical reactions exist but these databases struggle to keep up with the exponential growth of the biomedical literature. Conventional text mining pipelines provide tools to automatically extract entities and relationships from the scientific literature, and partially replace expert curation, but such machine learning frameworks often…

May 27, 2020

E. Mallory, et al.

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AMELIE speeds Mendelian diagnosis by matching patient phenotype and genotype to primary literature
The diagnosis of Mendelian disorders requires labor-intensive literature research. Trained clinicians can spend hours looking for the right publication(s) supporting a single gene that best explains a patient’s disease. AMELIE (Automatic Mendelian Literature Evaluation) greatly accelerates this process. AMELIE parses all 29 million PubMed abstracts and downloads and further parses hundreds of thousands of full-text articles in search of information supporting the causality and associated phenotypes of most published genetic variants. AMELIE then prioritizes patient candidate variants for their likelihood of explaining any patient’s given set of phenotypes. Diagnosis of singleton patients (without relatives’ exomes) is the most time-consuming scenario,...
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AMELIE speeds Mendelian diagnosis by matching patient phenotype and genotype to primary literature

The diagnosis of Mendelian disorders requires labor-intensive literature research. Trained clinicians can spend hours looking for the right publication(s) supporting a single gene that best explains a patient’s disease. AMELIE (Automatic Mendelian Literature Evaluation) greatly accelerates this process. AMELIE parses all 29 million PubMed abstracts and downloads and further parses hundreds of thousands of full-text articles in search of information…

May 20, 2020

J. Birgmeier, et al.

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Towards Curiosity-Driven Learning of Physical Dynamics
Throughout our lives, we as humans acquire an intuitive understanding of our physical environments, a capacity that supports our imagination and planning abilities. Driven by our own curiosity, we learn about object motion and properties via self-curated targeted experiments, that teach us what we do not know. Recently, neural network models have been proposed that learn forward object dynamics from observations like humans. Unlike humans, these models do not actively interact with surrounding objects but learn from human-curated datasets as passive observers. In this work-in-progress, we propose a closed-loop system that teaches itself about forward object dynamics without any human...
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Towards Curiosity-Driven Learning of Physical Dynamics

Throughout our lives, we as humans acquire an intuitive understanding of our physical environments, a capacity that supports our imagination and planning abilities. Driven by our own curiosity, we learn about object motion and properties via self-curated targeted experiments, that teach us what we do not know. Recently, neural network models have been proposed that learn forward object dynamics from…

Apr 26, 2020

MJ. Lingelbach, et al.

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Weakly Supervised Sequence Tagging from Noisy Rules
We propose a framework for training sequence tagging models with weak supervision consisting of multiple heuristic rules of unknown accuracy. In addition to supporting rules that vote on tags in the output sequence, we introduce a new type of weak supervision, called linking rules, that vote on how sequence elements should be grouped into spans with the same tag. These rules are an alternative to candidate span generators that require significantly more human effort. To estimate the accuracies of the rules and combine their conflicting outputs into training data, we introduce a new type of generative model, linked hidden Markov...
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Weakly Supervised Sequence Tagging from Noisy Rules

We propose a framework for training sequence tagging models with weak supervision consisting of multiple heuristic rules of unknown accuracy. In addition to supporting rules that vote on tags in the output sequence, we introduce a new type of weak supervision, called linking rules, that vote on how sequence elements should be grouped into spans with the same tag. These…

Apr 03, 2020

E. Safranchik, et al.

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Weakly Supervised Classification of Aortic Valve Malformations Using Unlabeled Cardiac MRI Sequences
This work formalizes a deep learning baseline for aortic valve classification and outlines a general strategy for using weak supervision to train machine learning models using unlabeled medical images at scale.
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Weakly Supervised Classification of Aortic Valve Malformations Using Unlabeled Cardiac MRI Sequences

This work formalizes a deep learning baseline for aortic valve classification and outlines a general strategy for using weak supervision to train machine learning models using unlabeled medical images at scale.

Dec 20, 2019

J. Fries, et al, 2019

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Utilizing Weak Supervision to Infer Complex Objects in Autonomous Driving Data
This paper explores the applicability of weak supervision, or relying on higher level, noisier forms of supervision to label training data, specifically using data programming.
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Utilizing Weak Supervision to Infer Complex Objects in Autonomous Driving Data

This paper explores the applicability of weak supervision, or relying on higher level, noisier forms of supervision to label training data, specifically using data programming.

Dec 19, 2019

Z. Wheng, et al, 2019

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