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20162026
most citedUnbiased variable importance for random forests

71 citations

12 papers

econ.TH2026★ 1 cited

The Distribution of Envy in Matching Markets

Josué Ortega, Gabriel Ziegler, R. Pablo Arribillaga +1

We study the distribution of envy in random matching markets under the Deferred Acceptance (DA) algorithm. Using tools from applied probability, we compute the expected number of p…

astro-ph.EP2026★ 4 cited

Exo-Geoscience Perspectives Beyond Habitability

Tilman Spohn, Akli Roberge, M. J. Way +5

This article reviews the emerging field of exo-geoscience, focusing on the geological and geophysical processes thought to influence the evolution and (eu)habitability of rocky exo…

cs.LG2025★ 1 cited

FITS: Towards an AI-Driven Fashion Information Tool for Sustainability

Daphne Theodorakopoulos, Elisabeth Eberling, Miriam Bodenheimer +2

Access to credible sustainability information in the fashion industry remains limited and challenging to interpret, despite growing public and regulatory demands for transparency.…

cs.CV2025

Geometry-Aware Video Inpainting for Joint Headset Occlusion Removal and Face Reconstruction in Social XR

Fatemeh Ghorbani Lohesara, Karen Eguiazarian, Sebastian Knorr

Head-mounted displays (HMDs) are essential for experiencing extended reality (XR) environments and observing virtual content. However, they obscure the upper part of the user's fac…

cs.HC2025★ 1 cited

Prompt-Hacking: The New p-Hacking?

Thomas Kosch, Sebastian Feger

As Large Language Models (LLMs) become increasingly embedded in empirical research workflows, their use as analytical tools for quantitative or qualitative data raises pressing con…

econ.GN2024★ 35 cited

Age and Cognitive Skills: Use It or Lose It

Eric A. Hanushek, Lavinia Kinne, Frauke Witthoeft +1

Cross-sectional age-skill profiles suggest that workers' cognitive skills start declining by their thirties if not earlier. If accurate, such age-driven skill losses pose a major t…

cs.HC2024★ 44 cited

Performance and Metacognition Disconnect when Reasoning in Human-AI Interaction

Daniela Fernandes, Steeven Villa, Salla Nicholls +6

Optimizing human-AI interaction requires users to reflect on their own performance critically. Our paper examines whether people using AI to complete tasks can accurately monitor h…

eess.SP2020★ 19 cited

Duality between Coronavirus Transmission and Air-based Macroscopic Molecular Communication

Max Schurwanz, Peter Adam Hoeher, Sunasheer Bhattacharjee +3

This contribution exploits the duality between a viral infection process and macroscopic air-based molecular communication. Airborne aerosol and droplet transmission through human…

stat.ML2020★ 71 cited

Unbiased variable importance for random forests

Markus Loecher

The default variable-importance measure in random Forests, Gini importance, has been shown to suffer from the bias of the underlying Gini-gain splitting criterion. While the altern…

q-fin.RM2018★ 13 cited

A factor-model approach for correlation scenarios and correlation stress-testing

Natalie Packham, Fabian Woebbeking

In 2012, JPMorgan accumulated a USD~6.2 billion loss on a credit derivatives portfolio, the so-called `London Whale', partly as a consequence of de-correlations of non-perfectly co…

q-fin.PM2018★ 2 cited

Optimal contracts under competition when uncertainty from adverse selection and moral hazard are present

N. Packham

In a continuous-time setting where a risk-averse agent controls the drift of an output process driven by a Brownian motion, optimal contracts are linear in the terminal output; thi…

cs.CY2016★ 1 cited

The Perspectives of Democratic Decision-Making in the Information Society

Olaf Winkel

In order to structure the debate on the democratic potentials of digital information technology Hubertus Buchstein in 1996 created three ideal types, net optimism, net pessimism an…