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cs.LG2025★ 1 cited

Which LIME should I trust? Concepts, Challenges, and Solutions

Patrick Knab, Sascha Marton, Udo Schlegel +1

As neural networks become dominant in essential systems, Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) plays a crucial role in fostering trust and detecting potential misbehavior of op…

cs.LG2025

Unreflected Use of Tabular Data Repositories Can Undermine Research Quality

Andrej Tschalzev, Lennart Purucker, Stefan Lüdtke +3

Data repositories have accumulated a large number of tabular datasets from various domains. Machine Learning researchers are actively using these datasets to evaluate novel approac…

cs.LG2025

Disentangling Exploration of Large Language Models by Optimal Exploitation

Tim Grams, Patrick Betz, Sascha Marton +2

Exploration is a crucial skill for in-context reinforcement learning in unknown environments. However, it remains unclear if large language models can effectively explore a partial…

cs.LG2024

Interpreting Outliers in Time Series Data through Decoding Autoencoder

Patrick Knab, Sascha Marton, Christian Bartelt +1

Outlier detection is a crucial analytical tool in various fields. In critical systems like manufacturing, malfunctioning outlier detection can be costly and safety-critical. Theref…

cs.LG2024

Mitigating Information Loss in Tree-Based Reinforcement Learning via Direct Optimization

Sascha Marton, Tim Grams, Florian Vogt +3

Reinforcement learning (RL) has seen significant success across various domains, but its adoption is often limited by the black-box nature of neural network policies, making them d…

cs.LG2024

A Data-Centric Perspective on Evaluating Machine Learning Models for Tabular Data

Andrej Tschalzev, Sascha Marton, Stefan Lüdtke +2

Tabular data is prevalent in real-world machine learning applications, and new models for supervised learning of tabular data are frequently proposed. Comparative studies assessing…

cs.LG2024

Enabling Mixed Effects Neural Networks for Diverse, Clustered Data Using Monte Carlo Methods

Andrej Tschalzev, Paul Nitschke, Lukas Kirchdorfer +3

Neural networks often assume independence among input data samples, disregarding correlations arising from inherent clustering patterns in real-world datasets (e.g., due to differe…

cs.LG2023★ 3 cited

GRANDE: Gradient-Based Decision Tree Ensembles for Tabular Data

Sascha Marton, Stefan Lüdtke, Christian Bartelt +1

Despite the success of deep learning for text and image data, tree-based ensemble models are still state-of-the-art for machine learning with heterogeneous tabular data. However, t…

cs.LG2023

GradTree: Learning Axis-Aligned Decision Trees with Gradient Descent

Sascha Marton, Stefan Lüdtke, Christian Bartelt +1

Decision Trees (DTs) are commonly used for many machine learning tasks due to their high degree of interpretability. However, learning a DT from data is a difficult optimization pr…

cs.LG2022

Outlier Explanation via Sum-Product Networks

Stefan Lüdtke, Christian Bartelt, Heiner Stuckenschmidt

Outlier explanation is the task of identifying a set of features that distinguish a sample from normal data, which is important for downstream (human) decision-making. Existing met…

cs.LG2022★ 2 cited

Explaining Neural Networks without Access to Training Data

Sascha Marton, Stefan Lüdtke, Christian Bartelt +2

We consider generating explanations for neural networks in cases where the network's training data is not accessible, for instance due to privacy or safety issues. Recently, $\math…

cs.LG2021

Exchangeability-Aware Sum-Product Networks

Stefan Lüdtke, Christian Bartelt, Heiner Stuckenschmidt

Sum-Product Networks (SPNs) are expressive probabilistic models that provide exact, tractable inference. They achieve this efficiency by making use of local independence. On the ot…