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Contrastive Learning on Multimodal Analysis of Electronic Health Records
Journal of the American Statistical Association · Jul 8, 2026 · 1 min

The authors developed a multimodal contrastive learning model for Electronic Health Records that mathematically connects the loss function to the singular value decomposition of a pointwise mutual information matrix, enabling a novel privacy-preserving algorithm.

Stochastic Phylogenetic Models of Shape
Systematic Biology · Jul 9, 2026 · 1 min

A new framework modeling morphological shape evolution as a diffusion process using Metropolis-Hastings MCMC improves ancestral shape estimation at the root and internal nodes of a phylogeny.