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9 papers

cs.LG2026

RECAST: Model Reconstruction via Counterfactual-Aware Wasserstein Geometry under Limited Data

Xuan Zhao, Lena Krieger, Zhuo Cao +3

Counterfactual explanations (CFs) help understand machine learning models by identifying minimal input changes that would lead to alternative model outcomes. Recent work demonstrat…

cs.AI2026

Residual-Space Evolutionary Optimization via Flow-based Generative Models

Zhuo Cao, Lena Krieger, Fernanda Nader +3

Data editing with generative methods typically requires differentiable objectives and gradient-based search. However, these assumptions break down in flow-based settings, where edi…

cs.LG2026

Counterfactual Transport Flows for Offline Conservative Trajectory Refinement

Lena Krieger, Xuan Zhao, Zhuo Cao +3

Offline reinforcement learning (RL) offers a path to policy improvement from logged data alone, using historical returns or other measurable outcomes as world feedback. A key diffi…

cs.LG2026

Least but not Last: Fine-tuning Intermediate Principal Components for Better Performance-Forgetting Trade-Offs

Alessio Quercia, Arya Bangun, Ira Assent +1

Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) methods have emerged as crucial techniques for adapting large pre-trained models to downstream tasks under computational and memory constraints. However,…

cs.LG2025

Classifier Reconstruction Through Counterfactual-Aware Wasserstein Prototypes

Xuan Zhao, Zhuo Cao, Arya Bangun +2

Counterfactual explanations provide actionable insights by identifying minimal input changes required to achieve a desired model prediction. Beyond their interpretability benefits,…

cs.LG2025

LeapFactual: Reliable Visual Counterfactual Explanation Using Conditional Flow Matching

Zhuo Cao, Xuan Zhao, Lena Krieger +2

The growing integration of machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) models into high-stakes domains such as healthcare and scientific research calls for models that a…