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most citedAnoShift: A Distribution Shift Benchmark for Unsupervised Anomaly Detection

15 citations · 41 across the 16 of their papers we have counts for

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19 papers

cs.AI2026

Fine-Tuning Diffusion Language Models with Context Selection and Target Weighting

Loay Mualem, Lluís Pastor-Pérez, Vinh Tong +4

Supervised fine-tuning of discrete diffusion language models masks some response tokens and trains the model to recover their original values from the visible context. The masking…

cs.LG2026

Equivariance Breaks the Learning Rate

Andrei Manolache, Mathias Niepert

Equivariant networks are commonly trained with Adam, yet recent work reports that matrix structured optimizers such as Muon can perform better, with the reasons for these gains onl…

cs.LG2026

Distillation of Foundation Models for Time-dependent PDEs

Daniel Musekamp, Boshra Ariguib, Andrei Manolache +1

Foundation models for time-dependent partial differential equations (PDEs) are trained on large and diverse collections of physical systems and can generalize effectively to new do…

cs.LG2026

How the Optimizer Shapes Learned Solutions in Equivariant Neural Networks

Teodor-Mihai Stupariu, Andrei Manolache

Equivariant neural networks encode geometric symmetries by construction, yet they are often difficult to optimize and can underperform less constrained architectures. A growing bod…

cs.LG2026

Protein Fold Classification at Scale: Benchmarking and Pretraining

Dexiong Chen, Andrei Manolache, Mathias Niepert +1

Classifying protein topology is essential for deciphering biological function, but progress is held back by the lack of large-scale benchmarks that avoid duplicates and by models t…

cs.LG2026

GraIP: A Benchmarking Framework For Neural Graph Inverse Problems

Semih Cantürk, Andrei Manolache, Arman Mielke +5

A wide range of graph learning tasks, such as structure discovery, temporal graph analysis, and combinatorial optimization, focus on inferring graph structures from data, rather th…

cs.LG2025

Learning the Neighborhood: Contrast-Free Multimodal Self-Supervised Molecular Graph Pretraining

Boshra Ariguib, Mathias Niepert, Andrei Manolache

High-quality molecular representations are essential for property prediction and molecular design, yet large labeled datasets remain scarce. While self-supervised pretraining on mo…

cs.LG2025

ChronoGraph: A Real-World Graph-Based Multivariate Time Series Dataset

Adrian Catalin Lutu, Ioana Pintilie, Elena Burceanu +1

We present ChronoGraph, a graph-structured multivariate time series forecasting dataset built from real-world production microservices. Each node is a service that emits a multivar…

cs.LG2025

Learning (Approximately) Equivariant Networks via Constrained Optimization

Andrei Manolache, Luiz F. O. Chamon, Mathias Niepert

Equivariant neural networks are designed to respect symmetries through their architecture, boosting generalization and sample efficiency when those symmetries are present in the da…

cs.LG2024★ 4 cited

MolMix: A Simple Yet Effective Baseline for Multimodal Molecular Representation Learning

Andrei Manolache, Dragos Tantaru, Mathias Niepert

In this work, we propose a simple transformer-based baseline for multimodal molecular representation learning, integrating three distinct modalities: SMILES strings, 2D graph repre…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

Probabilistic Graph Rewiring via Virtual Nodes

Chendi Qian, Andrei Manolache, Christopher Morris +1

Message-passing graph neural networks (MPNNs) have emerged as a powerful paradigm for graph-based machine learning. Despite their effectiveness, MPNNs face challenges such as under…

cs.CL2023

Deep Anomaly Detection in Text

Andrei Manolache

Deep anomaly detection methods have become increasingly popular in recent years, with methods like Stacked Autoencoders, Variational Autoencoders, and Generative Adversarial Networ…

cs.LG2023

Time Series Anomaly Detection using Diffusion-based Models

Ioana Pintilie, Andrei Manolache, Florin Brad

Diffusion models have been recently used for anomaly detection (AD) in images. In this paper we investigate whether they can also be leveraged for AD on multivariate time series (M…

cs.LG2023★ 4 cited

Probabilistically Rewired Message-Passing Neural Networks

Chendi Qian, Andrei Manolache, Kareem Ahmed +4

Message-passing graph neural networks (MPNNs) emerged as powerful tools for processing graph-structured input. However, they operate on a fixed input graph structure, ignoring pote…

cs.CL2022★ 13 cited

VeriDark: A Large-Scale Benchmark for Authorship Verification on the Dark Web

Andrei Manolache, Florin Brad, Antonio Barbalau +2

The DarkWeb represents a hotbed for illicit activity, where users communicate on different market forums in order to exchange goods and services. Law enforcement agencies benefit f…

cs.LG2022★ 15 cited

AnoShift: A Distribution Shift Benchmark for Unsupervised Anomaly Detection

Marius Dragoi, Elena Burceanu, Emanuela Haller +2

Analyzing the distribution shift of data is a growing research direction in nowadays Machine Learning (ML), leading to emerging new benchmarks that focus on providing a suitable sc…

cs.CL2021★ 4 cited

Rethinking the Authorship Verification Experimental Setups

Florin Brad, Andrei Manolache, Elena Burceanu +3

One of the main drivers of the recent advances in authorship verification is the PAN large-scale authorship dataset. Despite generating significant progress in the field, inconsist…

cs.CG2021

ICLR 2021 Challenge for Computational Geometry & Topology: Design and Results

Nina Miolane, Matteo Caorsi, Umberto Lupo +30

This paper presents the computational challenge on differential geometry and topology that happened within the ICLR 2021 workshop "Geometric and Topological Representation Learning…

cs.CL2021

DATE: Detecting Anomalies in Text via Self-Supervision of Transformers

Andrei Manolache, Florin Brad, Elena Burceanu

Leveraging deep learning models for Anomaly Detection (AD) has seen widespread use in recent years due to superior performances over traditional methods. Recent deep methods for an…