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most citedPosterior Network: Uncertainty Estimation without OOD Samples via Density-Based Pseudo-Counts

59 citations · 214 across the 24 of their papers we have counts for

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24 papers

cs.LG2026

Reliability Scaling Laws for Quantized Large Language Models

Sirine Ayadi, Sándor Daróczi, Stephan Günnemann +1

Quantization is a powerful strategy to build capable and resource-efficient large language models (LLMs) by reducing the bitwidth of the parameters. While quantized LLMs achieve st…

cs.LG2025

Predictive Feature Caching for Training-free Acceleration of Molecular Geometry Generation

Johanna Sommer, John Rachwan, Nils Fleischmann +2

Flow matching models generate high-fidelity molecular geometries but incur significant computational costs during inference, requiring hundreds of network evaluations. This inferen…

cs.LG2024

Predicting Probabilities of Error to Combine Quantization and Early Exiting: QuEE

Florence Regol, Joud Chataoui, Bertrand Charpentier +3

Machine learning models can solve complex tasks but often require significant computational resources during inference. This has led to the development of various post-training com…

cs.LG2024

Uncertainty for Active Learning on Graphs

Dominik Fuchsgruber, Tom Wollschläger, Bertrand Charpentier +2

Uncertainty Sampling is an Active Learning strategy that aims to improve the data efficiency of machine learning models by iteratively acquiring labels of data points with the high…

cs.LG2024

Structurally Prune Anything: Any Architecture, Any Framework, Any Time

Xun Wang, John Rachwan, Stephan Günnemann +1

Neural network pruning serves as a critical technique for enhancing the efficiency of deep learning models. Unlike unstructured pruning, which only sets specific parameters to zero…

cs.LG2024

Shaving Weights with Occam's Razor: Bayesian Sparsification for Neural Networks Using the Marginal Likelihood

Rayen Dhahri, Alexander Immer, Betrand Charpentier +2

Neural network sparsification is a promising avenue to save computational time and memory costs, especially in an age where many successful AI models are becoming too large to naïv…

physics.chem-ph2023★ 5 cited

Uncertainty Estimation for Molecules: Desiderata and Methods

Tom Wollschläger, Nicholas Gao, Bertrand Charpentier +2

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are promising surrogates for quantum mechanical calculations as they establish unprecedented low errors on collections of molecular dynamics (MD) traje…

cs.LG2023★ 10 cited

Adversarial Training for Graph Neural Networks: Pitfalls, Solutions, and New Directions

Lukas Gosch, Simon Geisler, Daniel Sturm +3

Despite its success in the image domain, adversarial training did not (yet) stand out as an effective defense for Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) against graph structure perturbations…

cs.LG2023★ 22 cited

Edge Directionality Improves Learning on Heterophilic Graphs

Emanuele Rossi, Bertrand Charpentier, Francesco Di Giovanni +3

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have become the de-facto standard tool for modeling relational data. However, while many real-world graphs are directed, the majority of today's GNN mo…

cs.LG2023★ 7 cited

Accuracy is not the only Metric that matters: Estimating the Energy Consumption of Deep Learning Models

Johannes Getzner, Bertrand Charpentier, Stephan Günnemann

Modern machine learning models have started to consume incredible amounts of energy, thus incurring large carbon footprints (Strubell et al., 2019). To address this issue, we have…

cs.LG2023

Training, Architecture, and Prior for Deterministic Uncertainty Methods

Bertrand Charpentier, Chenxiang Zhang, Stephan Günnemann

Accurate and efficient uncertainty estimation is crucial to build reliable Machine Learning (ML) models capable to provide calibrated uncertainty estimates, generalize and detect O…

cs.LG2022★ 2 cited

On the Robustness and Anomaly Detection of Sparse Neural Networks

Morgane Ayle, Bertrand Charpentier, John Rachwan +3

The robustness and anomaly detection capability of neural networks are crucial topics for their safe adoption in the real-world. Moreover, the over-parameterization of recent netwo…

cs.LG2022★ 4 cited

Winning the Lottery Ahead of Time: Efficient Early Network Pruning

John Rachwan, Daniel Zügner, Bertrand Charpentier +3

Pruning, the task of sparsifying deep neural networks, received increasing attention recently. Although state-of-the-art pruning methods extract highly sparse models, they neglect…

cs.LG2022★ 9 cited

Disentangling Epistemic and Aleatoric Uncertainty in Reinforcement Learning

Bertrand Charpentier, Ransalu Senanayake, Mykel Kochenderfer +1

Characterizing aleatoric and epistemic uncertainty on the predicted rewards can help in building reliable reinforcement learning (RL) systems. Aleatoric uncertainty results from th…

cs.LG2022★ 4 cited

Differentiable DAG Sampling

Bertrand Charpentier, Simon Kibler, Stephan Günnemann

We propose a new differentiable probabilistic model over DAGs (DP-DAG). DP-DAG allows fast and differentiable DAG sampling suited to continuous optimization. To this end, DP-DAG sa…

stat.ML2021★ 9 cited

Graph Posterior Network: Bayesian Predictive Uncertainty for Node Classification

Maximilian Stadler, Bertrand Charpentier, Simon Geisler +2

The interdependence between nodes in graphs is key to improve class predictions on nodes and utilized in approaches like Label Propagation (LP) or in Graph Neural Networks (GNN). N…

cs.LG2021★ 2 cited

On Out-of-distribution Detection with Energy-based Models

Sven Elflein, Bertrand Charpentier, Daniel Zügner +1

Several density estimation methods have shown to fail to detect out-of-distribution (OOD) samples by assigning higher likelihoods to anomalous data. Energy-based models (EBMs) are…

cs.LG2021★ 4 cited

Natural Posterior Network: Deep Bayesian Uncertainty for Exponential Family Distributions

Bertrand Charpentier, Oliver Borchert, Daniel Zügner +2

Uncertainty awareness is crucial to develop reliable machine learning models. In this work, we propose the Natural Posterior Network (NatPN) for fast and high-quality uncertainty e…

cs.LG2020★ 5 cited

Evaluating Robustness of Predictive Uncertainty Estimation: Are Dirichlet-based Models Reliable?

Anna-Kathrin Kopetzki, Bertrand Charpentier, Daniel Zügner +2

Dirichlet-based uncertainty (DBU) models are a recent and promising class of uncertainty-aware models. DBU models predict the parameters of a Dirichlet distribution to provide fast…

cs.SI2020★ 17 cited

Scikit-network: Graph Analysis in Python

Thomas Bonald, Nathan de Lara, Quentin Lutz +1

Scikit-network is a Python package inspired by scikit-learn for the analysis of large graphs. Graphs are represented by their adjacency matrix in the sparse CSR format of SciPy. Th…

cs.LG2020★ 59 cited

Posterior Network: Uncertainty Estimation without OOD Samples via Density-Based Pseudo-Counts

Bertrand Charpentier, Daniel Zügner, Stephan Günnemann

Accurate estimation of aleatoric and epistemic uncertainty is crucial to build safe and reliable systems. Traditional approaches, such as dropout and ensemble methods, estimate unc…

cs.LG2019★ 20 cited

Uncertainty on Asynchronous Time Event Prediction

Marin Biloš, Bertrand Charpentier, Stephan Günnemann

Asynchronous event sequences are the basis of many applications throughout different industries. In this work, we tackle the task of predicting the next event (given a history), an…

cs.SI2018

Learning Graph Representations by Dendrograms

Thomas Bonald, Bertrand Charpentier

Hierarchical graph clustering is a common technique to reveal the multi-scale structure of complex networks. We propose a novel metric for assessing the quality of a hierarchical c…

cs.SI2018★ 35 cited

Hierarchical Graph Clustering using Node Pair Sampling

Thomas Bonald, Bertrand Charpentier, Alexis Galland +1

We present a novel hierarchical graph clustering algorithm inspired by modularity-based clustering techniques. The algorithm is agglomerative and based on a simple distance between…