Graph-Driven Generative Models for Heterogeneous Multi-Task Learning

We propose a novel graph-driven generative model, that unifies multiple heterogeneous learning tasks into the same framework. The proposed model is based on the fact that heterogeneous learning tasks, which correspond to different generative processes, often rely on data with a shared graph structure. Accordingly, our model combines a graph convolutional network (GCN) with multiple variational autoencoders, thus embedding the nodes of the graph (i. e. , samples for the tasks) in a uniform manner, while specializing their organization and usage to different tasks. With a focus on healthcare applications (tasks), including clinical topic modeling, procedure recommendation and admission-type prediction, we demonstrate that our method successfully leverages information across different tasks, boosting performance in all tasks and outperforming existing state-of-the-art approaches.

Authors

• Wenlin Wang
• Hongteng Xu Renmin University of China
• Zhe Gan
• Bai Li
• Guoyin Wang National Center for Applied Mathematics in Chongqing, Chongqing Normal University, Chongqing 401331, China
• Liqun Chen Huazhong University of Science and Technology National Key Laboratory of Multispectral Information Intelligent Processing Technology
• Qian Yang
• Wenqi Wang
• Lawrence Carin

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