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20202026
most citedGRANDE: Gradient-Based Decision Tree Ensembles for Tabular Data

3 citations · 7 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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14 papers

cs.LG2026

Explaining Tabular Foundation Model Differences Through Meta-Features

Markus Herre, Andrej Tschalzev, Sascha Marton +1

With the rise of tabular foundation models alongside traditional models still performing well on many tasks, choosing the right model for a tabular dataset remains difficult. We in…

cs.LG2026

Learning Tree-Based Models with Gradient Descent

Sascha Marton

Tree-based models are widely recognized for their interpretability and have proven effective in various application domains, particularly in high-stakes domains. However, learning…

cs.CV2025

Concepts in Motion: Temporal Concept Bottleneck Model for Interpretable Video Classification

Patrick Knab, Sascha Marton, Philipp J. Schubert +2

Concept Bottleneck Models (CBMs) enable interpretable image classification by structuring predictions around human-understandable concepts, but extending this paradigm to video rem…

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

Decision Trees That Remember: Gradient-Based Learning of Recurrent Decision Trees with Memory

Sascha Marton, Moritz Schneider

Neural architectures such as Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs), Transformers, and State-Space Models have shown great success in handling sequential data by learning temporal depend…

cs.CV2024

DCBM: Data-Efficient Visual Concept Bottleneck Models

Katharina Prasse, Patrick Knab, Sascha Marton +2

Concept Bottleneck Models (CBMs) enhance the interpretability of neural networks by basing predictions on human-understandable concepts. However, current CBMs typically rely on con…

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.CV2024★ 1 cited

Beyond Pixels: Enhancing LIME with Hierarchical Features and Segmentation Foundation Models

Patrick Knab, Sascha Marton, Christian Bartelt

LIME (Local Interpretable Model-agnostic Explanations) is a popular XAI framework for unraveling decision-making processes in vision machine-learning models. The technique utilizes…

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★ 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.AI2020

xRAI: Explainable Representations through AI

Christiann Bartelt, Sascha Marton, Heiner Stuckenschmidt

We present xRAI an approach for extracting symbolic representations of the mathematical function a neural network was supposed to learn from the trained network. The approach is ba…