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Fixes outcome creation and binarization (#355 ). This mainly revolves around bug fixes for the current outcome creation and doesn't account for extensions of the code (see "Not in this PR").

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  • Exclusion is relative to the index date: only exclusion events before index remove a subject (previously: any exclusion event, ever). It's applied after index dates are filled, so it also covers negatives with sampled index dates.
  • Condition matching returns the earliest date the definition is met. independent is the earliest of any condition; dependent is when the last condition is first met. Previously it was the first occurrence of the first-listed condition.
  • Codes match by prefix: DE11 also matches DE110. This changes behaviour for existing configs.
  • Exposure index dates are joined by subject_id instead of by row position, and never-exposed subjects are dropped instead of getting a sampled index date.
  • Sampled index dates are reproducible (rows sorted by subject, seeded sampling).
  • Subjects whose outcome occurs before the prediction window are excluded instead of being labelled 0. Window comparisons use datetimes instead of truncated hours.
  • Raises an error if the censor date is after the window start, since outcomes would otherwise leak into the input.
  • Censoring keeps only events strictly before the censor time (bisect_left). This also applies to the pretraining cutoff.
  • Outcome dicts only hold label and censor_abspos.

Not in this PR

  • Repeat outcomes. Only the first occurrence is stored, so all outcomes are incident: any earlier occurrence excludes the subject. Planned (@RH-MikkelWerling): store all event dates and add an incident vs. recurrent-with-washout option to binarization.
  • Death. Subjects who died before index aren't excluded, and deaths during the window without the outcome are labelled 0.
  • Lookback windows for exclusion (currently "any time before index").
  • Richer event definitions: k occurrences within N days, A followed by B within N days, value thresholds (only the code column is read), episode gaps.
  • A new-user washout for the exposure index.
  • Multiple index dates per subject.

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  • Bug Fixes

    • Records dated exactly on a censor date are now excluded from the censored timeline.
    • Exclusion dates are applied relative to each subject’s index date: earlier exclusions remove the subject, while exclusions on or after the index date do not.
    • Subjects without an exposure-based index date are excluded from outcome creation.
    • Outcome creation now rejects censor dates that fall after the prediction window begins.
  • New Features

    • Outcome conditions support exact and prefix matching.
    • Outcome labels respect configurable prediction-window boundaries, and missing dates can be sampled reproducibly with a specified seed.
    • Outcomes can be split into training, validation, and test sets and prepared with consistent labels.

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Outcome generation now applies date-based exclusion and index-date handling. Outcome utilities split and label outcomes using configured date windows, then finalize subject-keyed records. Training and fine-tuning pass those windows to the utilities. Censoring excludes entries at the censor date.

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Outcome processing

Layer / File(s) Summary
Resolve outcome and index dates
bonsai/functional/outcomes.py, bonsai/run/create_outcome.py, configs/data_creation/default_create_outcome.yaml, configs/examples/example_outcome1.yaml, configs/examples/example_outcome_val.yaml, tests/test_functional/test_outcomes.py
Condition matching supports exact and prefix modes. Outcome generation joins index and exclusion dates, samples null index dates for non-exposure index types, removes exposure rows with null index dates, and sorts combined outcomes by subject ID. Configuration uses duration mappings for relative shifts. Tests cover date expressions, condition selection, and exposure-date handling.
Split, label, and finalize outcomes
bonsai/functional/outcomes.py, bonsai/run/train.py, bonsai/run/finetune.py, configs/finetune.yaml, tests/test_functional/test_outcomes.py
Outcome processing splits DataFrames, applies date-window labels, and finalizes subject-keyed records with censor absolute positions. Training and fine-tuning pass configured start and end windows. Tests use date-based censor values and DataFrame results.
Apply censor-date truncation
bonsai/functional/censoring.py
censor_subject excludes entries whose absolute position equals the censor date. Function annotations use built-in dict.

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Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix

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  participant train
  participant finetune
  participant split_and_binarize_outcomes
  participant split_outcomes
  participant binarize_outcomes
  participant finalize_outcomes
  train->>split_and_binarize_outcomes: pass outcomes, split keys, and date windows
  finetune->>split_and_binarize_outcomes: pass outcomes, split keys, and date windows
  split_and_binarize_outcomes->>split_outcomes: request train, validation, and test splits
  split_outcomes-->>split_and_binarize_outcomes: return filtered DataFrames
  split_and_binarize_outcomes->>binarize_outcomes: pass each split and date window
  binarize_outcomes-->>split_and_binarize_outcomes: return labeled DataFrame
  split_and_binarize_outcomes->>finalize_outcomes: pass labeled DataFrame
  finalize_outcomes-->>split_and_binarize_outcomes: return subject-keyed labels and censor absolute positions
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The changes affect training-data eligibility and leakage controls, but the reviewed producer and consumers agree on the new subject-keyed output, and no newly introduced security issue was established. Some coverage remains incomplete.

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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The effective scope is the generated subject-level outcomes and the train, tuning, and held-out mappings that consume them. The supplied public-entrypoint ranges point to tests, not an established new externally reachable route.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • inferred — Input event dates and configured conditions determine labels and censor positions. Subject-ID joins, pre-window outcome removal, the censor-window check, and strict event truncation are the visible controls before those values reach the dataset; an attacker-controlled route into the inputs was not established.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • inferred — Missing index dates can be sampled from the combined split table, so split-isolation of imputation is not demonstrated. That sampling scope predates this PR; the new seed makes sampling reproducible rather than introducing the cross-split source.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — If training and held-out index-date distributions must remain independent, make the imputation scope explicit and enforce it before persisting outcomes; separately validate subject-ID uniqueness before converting split rows to mappings.
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Looks good for me. Assuming tests pass and functionality remains the same i think its good to go

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The producer does not enforce subject locality across parquet shards. create_outcome computes exposure dates from each shard’s local df, then performs an inner join. If a subject’s exposure event is in a different shard from its outcome event, the join produces no row for that subject and the subject is dropped. The repository only records subject locality as an assumption, not as an enforced producer contract.

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Keep pre-window outcomes as negative rows.

When outcome_date is before window_start, the current filter removes the subject before label is computed. split_and_binarize_outcomes then omits the subject from the train, validation, or test mapping instead of assigning label 0.

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-    outcomes = outcomes.filter(~(has_outcome & (pl.col("outcome_date") < window_start)))
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     if outcomes.select((pl.col("censor_date") > window_start).any()).item():
         raise ValueError(
             "censor_date is after the prediction window start; outcomes would leak into the input"
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Update the outcome labeling logic in split_and_binarize_outcomes so pre-window
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Nice - only quite minor stuff I think. Most of my concerns are in regard to the binarization of the outcomes, which I think we should think harder about - or at least have as something that is a special case of outcome generation. I'll make an issue and table this for now, but it would be nice to revisit at some point. But presumably this is something that will be supported when a project that needs the functionality comes around.

Regarding the discussion points:

Exclusion is relative to the index date: only exclusion events before index remove a subject (previously: any exclusion event, ever). It's applied after index dates are filled, so it also covers negatives with sampled index dates. - totally agree with this. I think if this was not the case, it would be biased.
Condition matching returns the earliest date the definition is met. independent is the earliest of any condition; dependent is when the last condition is first met. Previously it was the first occurrence of the first-listed condition. - seems right to me. There could be special cases, where clinicians like rolling windows etc, but I think that just requires a more complicated condition to be created.
Codes match by prefix: DE11 also matches DE110. This changes behaviour for existing configs. - Important catch. Especially for ICD10 codes, there are often trailing edge cases.
Exposure index dates are joined by subject_id instead of by row position, and never-exposed subjects are dropped instead of getting a sampled index date. - this seems to me like being a pretty important fix. Nice that we got this sorted.
Sampled index dates are reproducible (rows sorted by subject, seeded sampling). - Great.
Subjects whose outcome occurs before the prediction window are excluded instead of being labelled 0. Window comparisons use datetimes instead of truncated hours. - I think for now, this is fine. But it should be something we should keep in mind. We shouldn't let the repo become too dependent on the assumptions that we're always doing 1 patient, 1 outcome - because hopefully we'll at some point also include repeated outcomes. But I totally get that this is "beyond the scope of this study / PR".
Raises an error if the censor date is after the window start, since outcomes would otherwise leak into the input. - also seems like a good idea.
Censoring keeps only events strictly before the censor time (bisect_left). This also applies to the pretraining cutoff. - Good. Sometimes, I think information from the day is also available before making the decision. This could be something like treatment, etc. I don't think this is a major point, but considering what information is available also at the time of prediction is important.
Outcome dicts only hold label and censor_abspos. - also fine I guess.

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Wrong ordering (using train_outcomes rather than train_dataset)
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The sampler's `effective_n_samples` formula was incorrect (and inconsistent with the loss version), reasons:

What the loss does: alpha_c = (1 − β) / (1 − β^n_c) is exactly 1 / E_c, where E_c is the effective number of class c. So every sample's loss is weighted by 1 / E_c, which is Cui et al. The resulting pos_weight = alpha_1 / alpha_0 = E_0 / E_1 is about 75 on the example cohort.
What the sampler does: Each sample gets w_i = (E_c / ΣE) / n_c. A class has n_c samples, so the / n_c cancels when you add up that class's weights. The probability of drawing class c ends up being E_c / ΣE, which is proportional to its effective number. E_c grows with n_c, so the larger class still gets drawn more.

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