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most citedRelating the Partial Dependence Plot and Permutation Feature Importance to the Data Generating Process

119 citations

15 papers

stat.ML2026

Machine Learning in Epidemiology

Marvin N. Wright, Lukas Burk, Pegah Golchian +3

In the age of digital epidemiology, epidemiologists are faced by an increasing amount of data of growing complexity and dimensionality. Machine learning is a set of powerful tools…

stat.ML2025

Reduction Techniques for Survival Analysis

Johannes Piller, Léa Orsini, Simon Wiegrebe +6

In this work, we discuss what we refer to as reduction techniques for survival analysis, that is, techniques that "reduce" a survival task to a more common regression or classifica…

cs.RO2025★ 2 cited

Robot Pouring: Identifying Causes of Spillage and Selecting Alternative Action Parameters Using Probabilistic Actual Causation

Jaime Maldonado, Jonas Krumme, Christoph Zetzsche +2

In everyday life, we perform tasks (e.g., cooking or cleaning) that involve a large variety of objects and goals. When confronted with an unexpected or unwanted outcome, we take co…

stat.ML2024★ 1 cited

A Large-Scale Neutral Comparison Study of Survival Models on Low-Dimensional Data

Lukas Burk, John Zobolas, Bernd Bischl +3

This work presents the first large-scale neutral benchmark experiment focused on single-event, right-censored, low-dimensional survival data. Benchmark experiments are essential in…

stat.ML2024★ 38 cited

A Guide to Feature Importance Methods for Scientific Inference

Fiona Katharina Ewald, Ludwig Bothmann, Marvin N. Wright +3

While machine learning (ML) models are increasingly used due to their high predictive power, their use in understanding the data-generating process (DGP) is limited. Understanding…

stat.ML2024★ 7 cited

Interpretable Machine Learning for Survival Analysis

Sophie Hanna Langbein, Mateusz Krzyziński, Mikołaj Spytek +3

With the spread and rapid advancement of black box machine learning models, the field of interpretable machine learning (IML) or explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) has becom…