Hierarchical Sparse Bayesian Multitask Learning for Disease Prediction in Pooled Microbiome Studies

arXiv:2502.02552 · cs.LG, q-bio.BM, stat.AP, stat.CO, stat.ME · Submitted 2025-02-04 · Read on arXiv

cs.LG, q-bio.BM, stat.AP, stat.CO, stat.ME

Submitted: 2025-02-04

Updated: 2026-09-21

Journal ref: Zhu, H., Goncalves, A.R., Kok, C.R. et al. Hierarchical sparse Bayesian multitask learning for disease prediction in pooled microbiome studies. BioData Mining (2026)

DOI: 10.1186/s13040-026-00600-x

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Accuracy — 51× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Sparsity — 41× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• F1 Score — 15× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Abundance — 9× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Calibration — 8× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Benchmark — 6× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Uncertainty Quantification — 6× in this paper · explained in 8 episodes
• Clustering — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Computational Biology — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Coordinate Ascent Variational Inference — 3× in this paper
• Bayesian Inference — 2× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Feature Selection — 2× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Regularization — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Adam — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Adaptation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Copula — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Domain Adaptation — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Generalization — 1× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Interpretability — 1× in this paper · explained in 15 episodes
• Multitask Sparsity Structure Learning — 1× in this paper
• Objective Function — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Transfer Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 10 episodes
• Verification — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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• Variational Bayesian inference for linear and logistic regression

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