Summary of Triplesurv: Triplet Time-adaptive Coordinate Loss For Survival Analysis, by Liwen Zhang et al.
TripleSurv: Triplet Time-adaptive Coordinate Loss for Survival Analysis
by Liwen Zhang, Lianzhen Zhong, Fan Yang, Di Dong, Hui Hui, Jie Tian
First submitted to arxiv on: 5 Jan 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (stat.ML)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper proposes a new approach to survival analysis, specifically designed for censored time-to-event data. The authors address the limitations of previous methods, such as ranking loss functions that only focus on ranking survival times and don’t consider exact values, and maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) loss functions that are unbounded and prone to outliers. To overcome these challenges, they introduce TripleSurv, a time-adaptive coordinate loss function that adjusts for differences in survival times between sample pairs. This approach encourages the model to quantify relative risks and accurately predict survival times. The authors evaluate TripleSurv on four real-world datasets and demonstrate its superiority over state-of-the-art methods. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Imagine trying to predict when people will die or things will break down. That’s a challenge called survival analysis! Researchers have tried different ways to solve this problem, but some approaches didn’t work well with censored data (where we don’t know exactly when something happened). The authors of this paper propose a new way to do survival analysis that considers both the ranking and exact values of survival times. They call it TripleSurv. This method is tested on real-world datasets and shows better results than other methods. The goal is to make predictions more accurate and robust. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Likelihood * Loss function
