Week 8 - Medical Language Modeling Part I

Required Reading (Week 8 Pre-Class Quiz)

• Machine learning of patient characteristics to predict admission outcomes in the Undiagnosed Diseases Network
• Learning the language of viral evolution and escape

What-Why-How Paper Highlight

Optional Reading

• BERT: Pre-training of deep bidirectional transformers for language understanding
• The language of a virus
• Biological structure and function emerge from scaling unsupervised learning to 250 million protein sequences
• Large language models encode clinical knowledge