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469 citations · 703 across the 23 of their papers we have counts for

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25 papers

cs.CV2026

LeVJEPA: Efficient & Scalable Video Pretraining without the Heuristics

Lukas Kuhn, Lucas Maes, Giuseppe Serra +4

Video carries the temporal structure of the physical world, yet learning representations from it has remained computationally expensive: prevailing self-supervised methods either p…

cs.LG2026

Eigenvalue Calibration for Semantic Embeddings of Large Language Models

Sebastian G. Gruber, Nassim Walha, Francis Bach +1

Uncertainty quantification is central to the reliable deployment of large language models (LLMs), and eigenvalues of semantic embeddings have recently emerged as a key tool in stat…

cs.CV2026

LeVLJEPA: End-to-End Vision-Language Pretraining Without Negatives

Lukas Kuhn, Giuseppe Serra, Randall Balestriero +1

Vision-language pretraining remains dominated by contrastive objectives, whereas vision-only self-supervised learning has largely adopted non-contrastive methods. At the same time,…

cs.RO2025

Grasping Partially Occluded Objects Using Autoencoder-Based Point Cloud Inpainting

Alexander Koebler, Ralf Gross, Florian Buettner +1

Flexible industrial production systems will play a central role in the future of manufacturing due to higher product individualization and customization. A key component in such sy…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

How to Leverage Predictive Uncertainty Estimates for Reducing Catastrophic Forgetting in Online Continual Learning

Giuseppe Serra, Ben Werner, Florian Buettner

Many real-world applications require machine-learning models to be able to deal with non-stationary data distributions and thus learn autonomously over an extended period of time,…

cs.LG2024

Provably Better Explanations with Optimized Aggregation of Feature Attributions

Thomas Decker, Ananta R. Bhattarai, Jindong Gu +2

Using feature attributions for post-hoc explanations is a common practice to understand and verify the predictions of opaque machine learning models. Despite the numerous technique…

cs.LG2024

Federated Continual Learning Goes Online: Uncertainty-Aware Memory Management for Vision Tasks and Beyond

Giuseppe Serra, Florian Buettner

Given the ability to model more realistic and dynamic problems, Federated Continual Learning (FCL) has been increasingly investigated recently. A well-known problem encountered in…

cs.LG2024

DomainLab: A modular Python package for domain generalization in deep learning

Xudong Sun, Carla Feistner, Alexej Gossmann +10

Poor generalization performance caused by distribution shifts in unseen domains often hinders the trustworthy deployment of deep neural networks. Many domain generalization techniq…

cs.LG2023

A Bias-Variance-Covariance Decomposition of Kernel Scores for Generative Models

Sebastian G. Gruber, Florian Buettner

Generative models, like large language models, are becoming increasingly relevant in our daily lives, yet a theoretical framework to assess their generalization behavior and uncert…

cs.CV2023★ 204 cited

Understanding metric-related pitfalls in image analysis validation

Annika Reinke, Minu D. Tizabi, Michael Baumgartner +75

Validation metrics are key for the reliable tracking of scientific progress and for bridging the current chasm between artificial intelligence (AI) research and its translation int…

cs.LG2022★ 1 cited

Uncertainty Estimates of Predictions via a General Bias-Variance Decomposition

Sebastian G. Gruber, Florian Buettner

Reliably estimating the uncertainty of a prediction throughout the model lifecycle is crucial in many safety-critical applications. The most common way to measure this uncertainty…

cs.CV2022★ 469 cited

Metrics reloaded: Recommendations for image analysis validation

Lena Maier-Hein, Annika Reinke, Patrick Godau +71

Increasing evidence shows that flaws in machine learning (ML) algorithm validation are an underestimated global problem. Particularly in automatic biomedical image analysis, chosen…

stat.ML2022★ 4 cited

Encoding Domain Knowledge in Multi-view Latent Variable Models: A Bayesian Approach with Structured Sparsity

Arber Qoku, Florian Buettner

Many real-world systems are described not only by data from a single source but via multiple data views. In genomic medicine, for instance, patients can be characterized by data fr…

cs.LG2022★ 11 cited

Better Uncertainty Calibration via Proper Scores for Classification and Beyond

Sebastian G. Gruber, Florian Buettner

With model trustworthiness being crucial for sensitive real-world applications, practitioners are putting more and more focus on improving the uncertainty calibration of deep neura…

stat.ML2021

Encoding Domain Information with Sparse Priors for Inferring Explainable Latent Variables

Arber Qoku, Florian Buettner

Latent variable models are powerful statistical tools that can uncover relevant variation between patients or cells, by inferring unobserved hidden states from observable high-dime…

cs.LG2021★ 2 cited

Multi-output Gaussian Processes for Uncertainty-aware Recommender Systems

Yinchong Yang, Florian Buettner

Recommender systems are often designed based on a collaborative filtering approach, where user preferences are predicted by modelling interactions between users and items. Many com…

cs.LG2021

Parameterized Temperature Scaling for Boosting the Expressive Power in Post-Hoc Uncertainty Calibration

Christian Tomani, Daniel Cremers, Florian Buettner

We address the problem of uncertainty calibration and introduce a novel calibration method, Parametrized Temperature Scaling (PTS). Standard deep neural networks typically yield un…

cs.LG2021★ 2 cited

Hierarchical Variational Auto-Encoding for Unsupervised Domain Generalization

Xudong Sun, Florian Buettner

We address the task of domain generalization, where the goal is to train a predictive model such that it is able to generalize to a new, previously unseen domain. We choose a hiera…

cs.LG2020

Post-hoc Uncertainty Calibration for Domain Drift Scenarios

Christian Tomani, Sebastian Gruber, Muhammed Ebrar Erdem +2

We address the problem of uncertainty calibration. While standard deep neural networks typically yield uncalibrated predictions, calibrated confidence scores that are representativ…

cs.LG2020★ 3 cited

Towards Trustworthy Predictions from Deep Neural Networks with Fast Adversarial Calibration

Christian Tomani, Florian Buettner

To facilitate a wide-spread acceptance of AI systems guiding decision making in real-world applications, trustworthiness of deployed models is key. That is, it is crucial for predi…

cs.LG2020★ 1 cited

TIMELY: Improving Labeling Consistency in Medical Imaging for Cell Type Classification

Yushan Liu, Markus M. Geipel, Christoph Tietz +1

Diagnosing diseases such as leukemia or anemia requires reliable counts of blood cells. Hematologists usually label and count microscopy images of blood cells manually. In many cas…

cs.AI2020

AAAI FSS-19: Human-Centered AI: Trustworthiness of AI Models and Data Proceedings

Florian Buettner, John Piorkowski, Ian McCulloh +1

To facilitate the widespread acceptance of AI systems guiding decision-making in real-world applications, it is key that solutions comprise trustworthy, integrated human-AI systems…

cs.CL2018★ 4 cited

textTOvec: Deep Contextualized Neural Autoregressive Topic Models of Language with Distributed Compositional Prior

Pankaj Gupta, Yatin Chaudhary, Florian Buettner +1

We address two challenges of probabilistic topic modelling in order to better estimate the probability of a word in a given context, i.e., P(word|context): (1) No Language Structur…

cs.CL2018★ 1 cited

Document Informed Neural Autoregressive Topic Models with Distributional Prior

Pankaj Gupta, Yatin Chaudhary, Florian Buettner +1

We address two challenges in topic models: (1) Context information around words helps in determining their actual meaning, e.g., "networks" used in the contexts "artificial neural…