Dynamic neural graphs based federated reptile for semi-supervised multi-tasking in healthcare applications

AI healthcare applications rely on sensitive electronic healthcare records (EHRs) that are scarcely labelled and are often distributed across a network of the symbiont institutions. It is challenging to train the effective machine learning models on such data. In this work, we propose dynamic neural...

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Main Authors: Thakur, A, Sharma, P, Clifton, DA
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: IEEE 2021
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description AI healthcare applications rely on sensitive electronic healthcare records (EHRs) that are scarcely labelled and are often distributed across a network of the symbiont institutions. It is challenging to train the effective machine learning models on such data. In this work, we propose dynamic neural graphs based federated learning framework to address these challenges. The proposed framework extends Reptile, a model agnostic meta-learning (MAML) algorithm, to a federated setting. However, unlike the existing MAML algorithms, this paper proposes a dynamic variant of neural graph learning (NGL) to incorporate unlabelled examples in the supervised training setup. Dynamic NGL computes a meta-learning update by performing supervised learning on a labelled training example while performing metric learning on its labelled or unlabelled neighbourhood. This neighbourhood of a labelled example is established dynamically using local graphs built over the batches of training examples. Each local graph is constructed by comparing the similarity between embedding generated by the current state of the model. The introduction of metric learning on the neighbourhood makes this framework semi-supervised in nature. The experimental results on the publicly available MIMIC-III dataset highlight the effectiveness of the proposed framework for both single and multi-task settings under data decentralisation constraints and limited supervision.
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spelling oxford-uuid:6e88801c-e30f-422d-9d92-4eeddd0223562022-03-26T19:25:12ZDynamic neural graphs based federated reptile for semi-supervised multi-tasking in healthcare applicationsJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:6e88801c-e30f-422d-9d92-4eeddd022356EnglishSymplectic ElementsIEEE2021Thakur, ASharma, PClifton, DAAI healthcare applications rely on sensitive electronic healthcare records (EHRs) that are scarcely labelled and are often distributed across a network of the symbiont institutions. It is challenging to train the effective machine learning models on such data. In this work, we propose dynamic neural graphs based federated learning framework to address these challenges. The proposed framework extends Reptile, a model agnostic meta-learning (MAML) algorithm, to a federated setting. However, unlike the existing MAML algorithms, this paper proposes a dynamic variant of neural graph learning (NGL) to incorporate unlabelled examples in the supervised training setup. Dynamic NGL computes a meta-learning update by performing supervised learning on a labelled training example while performing metric learning on its labelled or unlabelled neighbourhood. This neighbourhood of a labelled example is established dynamically using local graphs built over the batches of training examples. Each local graph is constructed by comparing the similarity between embedding generated by the current state of the model. The introduction of metric learning on the neighbourhood makes this framework semi-supervised in nature. The experimental results on the publicly available MIMIC-III dataset highlight the effectiveness of the proposed framework for both single and multi-task settings under data decentralisation constraints and limited supervision.
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