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20202025
most citedDecoding machine learning benchmarks

15 citations · 20 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

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8 papers

cs.LG2025

LLM-Driven Intrinsic Motivation for Sparse Reward Reinforcement Learning

André Quadros, Cassio Silva, Ronnie Alves

This paper explores the combination of two intrinsic motivation strategies to improve the efficiency of reinforcement learning (RL) agents in environments with extreme sparse rewar…

cs.LG2025

Beyond Random Sampling: Instance Quality-Based Data Partitioning via Item Response Theory

Lucas Cardoso, Vitor Santos, José Ribeiro Filho +3

Robust validation of Machine Learning (ML) models is essential, but traditional data partitioning approaches often ignore the intrinsic quality of each instance. This study propose…

cs.LG2025

Enhancing Classifier Evaluation: A Fairer Benchmarking Strategy Based on Ability and Robustness

Lucas Cardoso, Vitor Santos, José Ribeiro +3

Benchmarking is a fundamental practice in machine learning (ML) for comparing the performance of classification algorithms. However, traditional evaluation methods often overlook a…

cs.LG2022★ 2 cited

Explanation-by-Example Based on Item Response Theory

Lucas F. F. Cardoso, José de S. Ribeiro, Vitor C. A. Santos +4

Intelligent systems that use Machine Learning classification algorithms are increasingly common in everyday society. However, many systems use black-box models that do not have cha…

cs.LG2021★ 1 cited

Data vs classifiers, who wins?

Lucas F. F. Cardoso, Vitor C. A. Santos, Regiane S. Kawasaki Francês +2

The experiments covered by Machine Learning (ML) must consider two important aspects to assess the performance of a model: datasets and algorithms. Robust benchmarks are needed to…

cs.LG2021

Does Dataset Complexity Matters for Model Explainers?

José Ribeiro, Raíssa Silva, Lucas Cardoso +1

Strategies based on Explainable Artificial Intelligence - XAI have emerged in computing to promote a better understanding of predictions made by black box models. Most XAI measures…

cs.LG2020★ 15 cited

Decoding machine learning benchmarks

Lucas F. F. Cardoso, Vitor C. A. Santos, Regiane S. K. Francês +2

Despite the availability of benchmark machine learning (ML) repositories (e.g., UCI, OpenML), there is no standard evaluation strategy yet capable of pointing out which is the best…

cs.LG2020★ 2 cited

NASirt: AutoML based learning with instance-level complexity information

Habib Asseiss Neto, Ronnie C. O. Alves, Sergio V. A. Campos

Designing adequate and precise neural architectures is a challenging task, often done by highly specialized personnel. AutoML is a machine learning field that aims to generate good…