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20202026
most citedConstraining Variational Inference with Geometric Jensen-Shannon Divergence

10 citations · 40 across the 24 of their papers we have counts for

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26 papers

cs.LG2026

KnowsTFM: Knowledge-Informed Fine-Tuning of Small Tabular Foundation Models

Boshko Koloski, Xiangjian Jiang, Senja Pollak +3

Tabular foundation models have advanced deep learning for tabular data by delivering strong default performance across many small and medium tasks. Yet in niche domains, where data…

cs.LG2026

TabFORGE: A Tabular Foundation Model for Generative Modelling

Xiangjian Jiang, Mingxuan Liu, Nikola Simidjievski +2

Generative modelling is a demanding test of foundation models, because it requires robust, holistic representation learning for a given data modality, rather than optimisation for…

cs.CV2026★ 1 cited

Towards Spatial Transcriptomics-driven Pathology Foundation Models

Konstantin Hemker, Andrew H. Song, Cristina Almagro-Pérez +6

Spatial transcriptomics (ST) provides spatially resolved measurements of gene expression, enabling characterization of the molecular landscape of human tissue beyond histological a…

cs.LG2025

TabStruct: Measuring Structural Fidelity of Tabular Data

Xiangjian Jiang, Nikola Simidjievski, Mateja Jamnik

Evaluating tabular generators remains a challenging problem, as the unique causal structural prior of heterogeneous tabular data does not lend itself to intuitive human inspection.…

cs.LG2025★ 2 cited

RO-FIGS: Efficient and Expressive Tree-Based Ensembles for Tabular Data

Urška Matjašec, Nikola Simidjievski, Mateja Jamnik

Tree-based models are often robust to uninformative features and can accurately capture non-smooth, complex decision boundaries. Consequently, they often outperform neural network-…

cs.LG2025

How Well Does Your Tabular Generator Learn the Structure of Tabular Data?

Xiangjian Jiang, Nikola Simidjievski, Mateja Jamnik

Heterogeneous tabular data poses unique challenges in generative modelling due to its fundamentally different underlying data structure compared to homogeneous modalities, such as…

cs.LG2025

LLM Embeddings for Deep Learning on Tabular Data

Boshko Koloski, Andrei Margeloiu, Xiangjian Jiang +3

Tabular deep-learning methods require embedding numerical and categorical input features into high-dimensional spaces before processing them. Existing methods deal with this hetero…

cs.LG2025★ 5 cited

Measuring Cross-Modal Interactions in Multimodal Models

Laura Wenderoth, Konstantin Hemker, Nikola Simidjievski +1

Integrating AI in healthcare can greatly improve patient care and system efficiency. However, the lack of explainability in AI systems (XAI) hinders their clinical adoption, especi…

cs.CV2024

PATHS: A Hierarchical Transformer for Efficient Whole Slide Image Analysis

Zak Buzzard, Konstantin Hemker, Nikola Simidjievski +1

Computational analysis of whole slide images (WSIs) has seen significant research progress in recent years, with applications ranging across important diagnostic and prognostic tas…

cs.LG2024★ 3 cited

TabEBM: A Tabular Data Augmentation Method with Distinct Class-Specific Energy-Based Models

Andrei Margeloiu, Xiangjian Jiang, Nikola Simidjievski +1

Data collection is often difficult in critical fields such as medicine, physics, and chemistry. As a result, classification methods usually perform poorly with these small datasets…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

TabMDA: Tabular Manifold Data Augmentation for Any Classifier using Transformers with In-context Subsetting

Andrei Margeloiu, Adrián Bazaga, Nikola Simidjievski +2

Tabular data is prevalent in many critical domains, yet it is often challenging to acquire in large quantities. This scarcity usually results in poor performance of machine learnin…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

Multimodal Lego: Model Merging and Fine-Tuning Across Topologies and Modalities in Biomedicine

Konstantin Hemker, Nikola Simidjievski, Mateja Jamnik

Learning holistic computational representations in physical, chemical or biological systems requires the ability to process information from different distributions and modalities…

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

Everybody Needs a Little HELP: Explaining Graphs via Hierarchical Concepts

Jonas Jürß, Lucie Charlotte Magister, Pietro Barbiero +2

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have led to major breakthroughs in a variety of domains such as drug discovery, social network analysis, and travel time estimation. However, they lack…

cs.LG2023★ 4 cited

HEALNet: Multimodal Fusion for Heterogeneous Biomedical Data

Konstantin Hemker, Nikola Simidjievski, Mateja Jamnik

Technological advances in medical data collection, such as high-throughput genomic sequencing and digital high-resolution histopathology, have contributed to the rising requirement…

cs.LG2023★ 2 cited

SHARCS: Shared Concept Space for Explainable Multimodal Learning

Gabriele Dominici, Pietro Barbiero, Lucie Charlotte Magister +2

Multimodal learning is an essential paradigm for addressing complex real-world problems, where individual data modalities are typically insufficient to accurately solve a given mod…

cs.LG2023

Enhancing Representation Learning on High-Dimensional, Small-Size Tabular Data: A Divide and Conquer Method with Ensembled VAEs

Navindu Leelarathna, Andrei Margeloiu, Mateja Jamnik +1

Variational Autoencoders and their many variants have displayed impressive ability to perform dimensionality reduction, often achieving state-of-the-art performance. Many current m…

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

ProtoGate: Prototype-based Neural Networks with Global-to-local Feature Selection for Tabular Biomedical Data

Xiangjian Jiang, Andrei Margeloiu, Nikola Simidjievski +1

Tabular biomedical data poses challenges in machine learning because it is often high-dimensional and typically low-sample-size (HDLSS). Previous research has attempted to address…

cs.LG2022

Weight Predictor Network with Feature Selection for Small Sample Tabular Biomedical Data

Andrei Margeloiu, Nikola Simidjievski, Pietro Lio +1

Tabular biomedical data is often high-dimensional but with a very small number of samples. Although recent work showed that well-regularised simple neural networks could outperform…

cs.LG2022

GCondNet: A Novel Method for Improving Neural Networks on Small High-Dimensional Tabular Data

Andrei Margeloiu, Nikola Simidjievski, Pietro Lio +1

Neural networks often struggle with high-dimensional but small sample-size tabular datasets. One reason is that current weight initialisation methods assume independence between we…

cs.LG2021★ 2 cited

Heavy-tailed denoising score matching

Jacob Deasy, Nikola Simidjievski, Pietro Liò

Score-based model research in the last few years has produced state of the art generative models by employing Gaussian denoising score-matching (DSM). However, the Gaussian noise a…

cs.LG2021

Attentional Meta-learners for Few-shot Polythetic Classification

Ben Day, Ramon Viñas, Nikola Simidjievski +1

Polythetic classifications, based on shared patterns of features that need neither be universal nor constant among members of a class, are common in the natural world and greatly o…

cs.LG2020★ 5 cited

Improving Interpretability in Medical Imaging Diagnosis using Adversarial Training

Andrei Margeloiu, Nikola Simidjievski, Mateja Jamnik +1

We investigate the influence of adversarial training on the interpretability of convolutional neural networks (CNNs), specifically applied to diagnosing skin cancer. We show that g…

q-bio.GN2020★ 2 cited

Using ontology embeddings for structural inductive bias in gene expression data analysis

Maja Trębacz, Zohreh Shams, Mateja Jamnik +4

Stratifying cancer patients based on their gene expression levels allows improving diagnosis, survival analysis and treatment planning. However, such data is extremely highly dimen…

q-bio.MN2020

Incorporating network based protein complex discovery into automated model construction

Paul Scherer, Maja Trȩbacz, Nikola Simidjievski +4

We propose a method for gene expression based analysis of cancer phenotypes incorporating network biology knowledge through unsupervised construction of computational graphs. The s…