Investigating risk factors and predicting complications in deep brain stimulation surgery with machine learning algorithms

F Farrokhi, QD Buchlak, M Sikora, N Esmaili… - World neurosurgery, 2020 - Elsevier
Background Deep brain stimulation (DBS) surgery is an option for patients experiencing
medically resistant neurologic symptoms. DBS complications are rare; finding significant …

Elements of a stochastic 3D prediction engine in larval zebrafish prey capture

AD Bolton, M Haesemeyer, J Jordi, U Schaechtle… - Elife, 2019 - elifesciences.org
The computational principles underlying predictive capabilities in animals are poorly
understood. Here, we wondered whether predictive models mediating prey capture could be …

Gensql: a probabilistic programming system for querying generative models of database tables

M Huot, M Ghavami, AK Lew, U Schaechtle… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
This article presents GenSQL, a probabilistic programming system for querying probabilistic
generative models of database tables. By augmenting SQL with only a few key primitives for …

A probabilistic programming approach to probabilistic data analysis

F Saad, VK Mansinghka - Advances in Neural Information …, 2016 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Probabilistic techniques are central to data analysis, but different approaches can be
challenging to apply, combine, and compare. This paper introduces composable generative …

Detecting dependencies in sparse, multivariate databases using probabilistic programming and non-parametric Bayes

F Saad, V Mansinghka - Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, 2017 - proceedings.mlr.press
Datasets with hundreds of variables and many missing values are commonplace. In this
setting, it is both statistically and computationally challenging to detect true predictive …

Scalable Structure Learning, Inference, and Analysis with Probabilistic Programs

FAK Saad - 2022 - dspace.mit.edu
How can we automate and scale up the processes of learning accurate probabilistic models
of complex data and obtaining principled solutions to probabilistic inference and analysis …

Encapsulating models and approximate inference programs in probabilistic modules

MF Cusumano-Towner, VK Mansinghka - arXiv preprint arXiv:1612.04759, 2016 - arxiv.org
This paper introduces the probabilistic module interface, which allows encapsulation of
complex probabilistic models with latent variables alongside custom stochastic approximate …

Probabilistic search for structured data via probabilistic programming and nonparametric Bayes

F Saad, L Casarsa, V Mansinghka - arXiv preprint arXiv:1704.01087, 2017 - arxiv.org
Databases are widespread, yet extracting relevant data can be difficult. Without substantial
domain knowledge, multivariate search queries often return sparse or uninformative results …

[HTML][HTML] Can an algorithm predict an unknown physical phenomenon by analyzing patterns and relations buried in clusters of data?

N Turan - sites.nd.edu
This article investigates whether an algorithm can provide an undiscovered physical
phenomenon by detecting patterns in the region where the data collected. The pattern …

[PDF][PDF] What is the Population of Interest?

R Tibbetts, V Mansinghka - cidrdb.org
BayesDB [1, 2] is a probabilistic programming platform that enables users to solve
probabilistic data analysis problems using a simple, SQL-like language. Queries execute …