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bioLeak: Leakage-Aware Modeling and Diagnostics for Machine Learning in R

Korkmaz, Selçuk

arXiv.org Machine Learning

Data leakage remains a recurrent source of optimistic bias in biomedical machine learning studies. Standard row-wise cross-validation and globally estimated preprocessing steps are often inappropriate for data with repeated measurements, study-level heterogeneity, batch effects, or temporal dependencies. This paper describes bioLeak, an R package for constructing leakage-aware resampling workflows and for auditing fitted models for common leakage mechanisms. The package provides leakage-aware split construction, train-fold-only preprocessing, cross-validated model fitting, nested hyperparameter tuning, post hoc leakage audits, and HTML reporting. The implementation supports binary classification, multiclass classification, regression, and survival analysis, with task-specific metrics and S4 containers for splits, fits, audits, and inflation summaries. The simulation artifacts show how apparent performance changes under controlled leakage mechanisms, and the case study illustrates how guarded and leaky pipelines can yield materially different conclusions on multi-study transcriptomic data. The emphasis throughout is on software design, reproducible workflows, and interpretation of diagnostic output.


fastml: Guarded Resampling Workflows for Safer Automated Machine Learning in R

Korkmaz, Selcuk, Goksuluk, Dincer, Karaismailoglu, Eda

arXiv.org Machine Learning

Preprocessing leakage arises when scaling, imputation, or other data-dependent transformations are estimated before resampling, inflating apparent performance while remaining hard to detect. We present fastml, an R package that provides a single-call interface for leakage-aware machine learning through guarded resampling, where preprocessing is re-estimated inside each resample and applied to the corresponding assessment data. The package supports grouped and time-ordered resampling, blocks high-risk configurations, audits recipes for external dependencies, and includes sandboxed execution and integrated model explanation. We evaluate fastml with a Monte Carlo simulation contrasting global and fold-local normalization, a usability comparison with tidymodels under matched specifications, and survival benchmarks across datasets of different sizes. The simulation demonstrates that global preprocessing substantially inflates apparent performance relative to guarded resampling. fastml matched held-out performance obtained with tidymodels while reducing workflow orchestration, and it supported consistent benchmarking of multiple survival model classes through a unified interface.