Preprint quantifies proteomics data leakage: no real signal still yields AUCs near 0.8

bttyeo · x · 2026-09-11

A new preprint quantifies a common cause of irreproducible proteomics biomarker studies: data leakage. Working with Jake Vogel, Caitlin Finney, and others, the authors show that with no true signal at all, runs containing data leakage can still reach AUCs near 0.8 — deceptively strong performance from pure noise. A methodological warning for biomedical machine learning research.

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