When BERT Fails -- The Limits of EHR Classification

26 Jul 2022  ·  Augusto Garcia-Agundez, Carsten Eickhoff ·

Transformers are powerful text representation learners, useful for all kinds of clinical decision support tasks. Although they outperform baselines on readmission prediction, they are not infallible. Here, we look into one such failure case, and report patterns that lead to inferior predictive performance.

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