Search Results - "Wilder, Bryan"
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Test sensitivity is secondary to frequency and turnaround time for COVID-19 screening
Published in Science advances (01-01-2021)“…The COVID-19 pandemic has created a public health crisis. Because SARS-CoV-2 can spread from individuals with presymptomatic, symptomatic, and asymptomatic…”
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Inferring individual-level processes from population-level patterns in cultural evolution
Published in Royal Society open science (01-09-2017)“…Our species is characterized by a great degree of cultural variation, both within and between populations. Understanding how group-level patterns of culture…”
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Altruists Proliferate Even at a Selective Disadvantage within Their Own Niche
Published in PloS one (01-06-2015)“…The evolutionary origin of altruism is a long-standing puzzle. Numerous explanations have been proposed, most prominently based on inclusive fitness or group…”
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Remembering a Conversation – A Conversational Memory Architecture for Embodied Conversational Agents
Published in Journal of intelligent systems (01-01-2017)“…This paper addresses the role of conversational memory in Embodied Conversational Agents (ECAs). It describes an investigation into developing such a memory…”
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Reconciling explanations for the evolution of evolvability
Published in Adaptive behavior (01-06-2015)“…Evolution’s ability to find innovative phenotypes is an important ingredient in the emergence of complexity in nature. A key factor in this capability is…”
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Modeling between-population variation in COVID-19 dynamics in Hubei, Lombardy, and New York City
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (13-10-2020)“…As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, formulating targeted policy interventions that are informed by differential severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2…”
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Predicting first time depression onset in pregnancy: applying machine learning methods to patient-reported data
Published in Archives of women's mental health (22-05-2024)“…To develop a machine learning algorithm, using patient-reported data from early pregnancy, to predict later onset of first time moderate-to-severe depression…”
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AI for Population Health: Melding Data and Algorithms on Networks
Published 01-01-2021“…As exemplified by the COVID-19 pandemic, our health and wellbeing depend on a difficult-to-measure web of societal factors and individual behaviors. My…”
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Allocating outreach resources for disease control in a dynamic population with information spread
Published in IIE transactions (02-09-2020)“…Infected individuals must be aware of disease symptoms to seek care, so outreach and education programs are critical to disease control. However, public health…”
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A Peer-Led, Artificial Intelligence–Augmented Social Network Intervention to Prevent HIV Among Youth Experiencing Homelessness
Published in Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999) (15-12-2021)“…Youth experiencing homelessness (YEH) are at elevated risk of HIV/AIDS and disproportionately identify as racial, ethnic, sexual, and gender minorities. We…”
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Inference of Cultural Transmission Modes Based on Incomplete Information
Published in Human biology (01-07-2015)“…In this article we explore the theoretical limits of the inference of cultural transmission modes based on sparse population-level data. We approach this…”
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Comparing Targeting Strategies for Maximizing Social Welfare with Limited Resources
Published 11-11-2024“…Machine learning is increasingly used to select which individuals receive limited-resource interventions in domains such as human services, education,…”
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Learning treatment effects while treating those in need
Published 10-07-2024“…Many social programs attempt to allocate scarce resources to people with the greatest need. Indeed, public services increasingly use algorithmic risk…”
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Development of risk prediction models for preterm delivery in a rural setting in Ethiopia
Published in Journal of global health (26-05-2023)“…Preterm birth complications are the leading causes of death among children under five years. However, the inability to accurately identify pregnancies at high…”
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Development of Prediction Models for Antenatal Care Attendance in Amhara Region, Ethiopia
Published in JAMA network open (01-05-2023)“…Antenatal care prevents maternal and neonatal deaths and improves birth outcomes. There is a lack of predictive models to identify pregnant women who are at…”
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On the Critical Role of Divergent Selection in Evolvability
Published in Frontiers in robotics and AI (02-08-2016)“…An ambitious goal in evolutionary robotics is to evolve increasingly complex robotic behaviors with minimal human design effort. Reaching this goal requires…”
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AI in Informal Science Education: Bringing Turing Back to Life to Perform the Turing Test
Published in International journal of artificial intelligence in education (01-06-2017)“…This paper describes an interactive museum exhibit featuring an avatar of Alan Turing that informs museum visitors about artificial intelligence and Turing’s…”
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Decision-Focused Evaluation of Worst-Case Distribution Shift
Published 03-07-2024“…Distribution shift is a key challenge for predictive models in practice, creating the need to identify potentially harmful shifts in advance of deployment…”
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Algorithmic Social Intervention
Published 13-03-2018“…Social and behavioral interventions are a critical tool for governments and communities to tackle deep-rooted societal challenges such as homelessness,…”
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Equilibrium Computation and Robust Optimization in Zero Sum Games with Submodular Structure
Published 03-10-2017“…We define a class of zero-sum games with combinatorial structure, where the best response problem of one player is to maximize a submodular function. For…”
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