Christinaki, Eirini and Papastylianou, Tasos and Carletto, Sara and Gonzalez-Martinez, Sergio and Ostacoli, Luca and Ottaviano, Manuel and Poli, Riccardo and Citi, Luca (2021) Well-being Forecasting using a Parametric Transfer-Learning method based on the Fisher Divergence and Hamiltonian Monte Carlo. EAI Endorsed Transactions on Bioengineering and Bioinformatics, 1 (1). e6. ISSN 2709-4111
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Abstract
INTRODUCTION: Traditional personalised modelling typically requires sufficient personal data for training. This is a challenge in healthcare contexts, e.g. when using smartphones to predict well-being.
OBJECTIVE: A method to produce incremental patient-specific models and forecasts even in the early stages of data collection when the data are sporadic and limited.
METHODS: We propose a parametric transfer-learning method based on the Fisher divergence, where information from other patients is injected as a prior term into a Hamiltonian Monte Carlo framework. We test our method on the NEVERMIND dataset of self-reported well-being scores.
RESULTS: Out of 54 scenarios representing varying training/forecasting lengths and competing methods, our method achieved overall best performance in 50 (92.6%) and demonstrated a significant median difference in45 (83.3%).
CONCLUSION: The method performs favourably overall, particularly when long-term forecasts are required given short-term data.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Transfer Learning, MCMC, Bayesian Inference, Well-being Prediction, Personalised Modelling, NEVERMIND |
| Subjects: | Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science |
| Depositing User: | EAI Editor II. |
| Date Deposited: | 03 Mar 2021 08:57 |
| Last Modified: | 03 Mar 2021 08:57 |
| URI: | https://eprints.eudl.eu/id/eprint/1155 |
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