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most citedExpectation maximization transfer learning and its application for bionic hand prostheses

26 citations · 62 across the 16 of their papers we have counts for

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17 papers

cs.IR2026

ExpertLens: Visualizing Embedding Spaces for Post-Hoc Explainability in MoE Enhanced Retrievers

Effrosyni Sokli, Isaac Roberts, Alexander Schulz +2

Neural models, including dense retrievers, have been widely adopted in Information Retrieval (IR), often delivering state-of-the-art performance. Despite their effectiveness, these…

cs.CV2026

Explaining Image Similarity with Automatically Extracted Concept Activation Vectors

Isaac Roberts, Petra Bevandic, Alexander Schulz +1

Image similarity underlies many computer vision applications, yet it is often unclear why two images receive a high or low similarity score. Existing explainability methods often r…

cs.LG2025

Noise Robust One-Class Intrusion Detection on Dynamic Graphs

Aleksei Liuliakov, Alexander Schulz, Luca Hermes +1

In the domain of network intrusion detection, robustness against contaminated and noisy data inputs remains a critical challenge. This study introduces a probabilistic version of t…

cs.LG2025

One-Class Intrusion Detection with Dynamic Graphs

Aleksei Liuliakov, Alexander Schulz, Luca Hermes +1

With the growing digitalization all over the globe, the relevance of network security becomes increasingly important. Machine learning-based intrusion detection constitutes a promi…

cs.LG2025

Conceptualizing Uncertainty: A Concept-based Approach to Explaining Uncertainty

Isaac Roberts, Alexander Schulz, Sarah Schroeder +2

Uncertainty in machine learning refers to the degree of confidence or lack thereof in a model's predictions. While uncertainty quantification methods exist, explanations of uncerta…

cs.CL2024★ 3 cited

Intelligent Learning Rate Distribution to reduce Catastrophic Forgetting in Transformers

Philip Kenneweg, Alexander Schulz, Sarah Schröder +1

Pretraining language models on large text corpora is a common practice in natural language processing. Fine-tuning of these models is then performed to achieve the best results on…

cs.CL2024

Debiasing Sentence Embedders through Contrastive Word Pairs

Philip Kenneweg, Sarah Schröder, Alexander Schulz +1

Over the last years, various sentence embedders have been an integral part in the success of current machine learning approaches to Natural Language Processing (NLP). Unfortunately…

cs.LG2024

Targeted Visualization of the Backbone of Encoder LLMs

Isaac Roberts, Alexander Schulz, Luca Hermes +1

Attention based Large Language Models (LLMs) are the state-of-the-art in natural language processing (NLP). The two most common architectures are encoders such as BERT, and decoder…

cs.CL2024

Semantic Properties of cosine based bias scores for word embeddings

Sarah Schröder, Alexander Schulz, Fabian Hinder +1

Plenty of works have brought social biases in language models to attention and proposed methods to detect such biases. As a result, the literature contains a great deal of differen…

cs.CL2022★ 1 cited

The SAME score: Improved cosine based bias score for word embeddings

Sarah Schröder, Alexander Schulz, Barbara Hammer

With the enourmous popularity of large language models, many researchers have raised ethical concerns regarding social biases incorporated in such models. Several methods to measur…

cs.CL2022

BERT WEAVER: Using WEight AVERaging to enable lifelong learning for transformer-based models in biomedical semantic search engines

Lisa Kühnel, Alexander Schulz, Barbara Hammer +1

Recent developments in transfer learning have boosted the advancements in natural language processing tasks. The performance is, however, dependent on high-quality, manually annota…

cs.CL2021★ 3 cited

Evaluating Metrics for Bias in Word Embeddings

Sarah Schröder, Alexander Schulz, Philip Kenneweg +3

Over the last years, word and sentence embeddings have established as text preprocessing for all kinds of NLP tasks and improved the performances significantly. Unfortunately, it h…

cs.NE2021

Reservoir Stack Machines

Benjamin Paaßen, Alexander Schulz, Barbara Hammer

Memory-augmented neural networks equip a recurrent neural network with an explicit memory to support tasks that require information storage without interference over long times. A…

cs.LG2020★ 9 cited

Reservoir Memory Machines as Neural Computers

Benjamin Paaßen, Alexander Schulz, Terrence C. Stewart +1

Differentiable neural computers extend artificial neural networks with an explicit memory without interference, thus enabling the model to perform classic computation tasks such as…

cs.LG2020★ 1 cited

Reservoir memory machines

Benjamin Paassen, Alexander Schulz

In recent years, Neural Turing Machines have gathered attention by joining the flexibility of neural networks with the computational capabilities of Turing machines. However, Neura…

cs.LG2019★ 19 cited

DeepView: Visualizing Classification Boundaries of Deep Neural Networks as Scatter Plots Using Discriminative Dimensionality Reduction

Alexander Schulz, Fabian Hinder, Barbara Hammer

Machine learning algorithms using deep architectures have been able to implement increasingly powerful and successful models. However, they also become increasingly more complex, m…

cs.LG2017★ 26 cited

Expectation maximization transfer learning and its application for bionic hand prostheses

Benjamin Paaßen, Alexander Schulz, Janne Hahne +1

Machine learning models in practical settings are typically confronted with changes to the distribution of the incoming data. Such changes can severely affect the model performance…