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We use multi-task learning frameworks to predict future values for the SOFA score components, with the goal of sharing information across the different tasks to improve overall predictive performance. We use approximately 53,000 days of time-series Electronic Health Record (EHR) data taken from 10,000 ICU stays in the Multiparameter Intelligent Monitoring in Intensive Care IV (MIMIC-IV) dataset. Evaluating on a test holdout set of 10% of our data, we compare performance of our multi-task learning models to individually-trained deep networks that predict each component without parameter sharing. Model performance suggests that there is a small advantage to multi-task learning over unregularized networks, but no advantage compared to networks that employ regularization.","abstract_html":"The Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) score is a scoring system useful for predicting clinical outcomes in the intensive care unit, such as organ failure and mortality. 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