Bayesian Meta-Learning for Improving Generalizability of Health Prediction Models With Similar Causal Mechanisms

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2310.12595v3
• Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2024 10:33:44 GMT
• Title: Bayesian Meta-Learning for Improving Generalizability of Health Prediction Models With Similar Causal Mechanisms
• Authors: Sophie Wharrie, Lisa Eick, Lotta Mäkinen, Andrea Ganna, Samuel Kaski, FinnGen,
• Abstract summary: We introduce a novel Bayesian meta-learning approach that aims to address challenges of negative transfer during shared learning and poor generalizability to new patients. Our main contribution is in modeling similarity between causal mechanisms of the tasks, for (1) mitigating negative transfer during training and (2) fine-tuning that pools information from tasks that are expected to aid generalizability.
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• Abstract: Machine learning strategies like multi-task learning, meta-learning, and transfer learning enable efficient adaptation of machine learning models to specific applications in healthcare, such as prediction of various diseases, by leveraging generalizable knowledge across large datasets and multiple domains. In particular, Bayesian meta-learning methods pool data across related prediction tasks to learn prior distributions for model parameters, which are then used to derive models for specific tasks. However, inter- and intra-task variability due to disease heterogeneity and other patient-level differences pose challenges of negative transfer during shared learning and poor generalizability to new patients. We introduce a novel Bayesian meta-learning approach that aims to address this in two key settings: (1) predictions for new patients (same population as the training set) and (2) adapting to new patient populations. Our main contribution is in modeling similarity between causal mechanisms of the tasks, for (1) mitigating negative transfer during training and (2) fine-tuning that pools information from tasks that are expected to aid generalizability. We propose an algorithm for implementing this approach for Bayesian deep learning, and apply it to a case study for stroke prediction tasks using electronic health record data. Experiments for the UK Biobank dataset as the training population demonstrated significant generalizability improvements compared to standard meta-learning, non-causal task similarity measures, and local baselines (separate models for each task). This was assessed for a variety of tasks that considered both new patients from the training population (UK Biobank) and a new population (FinnGen).

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