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most citedEfficient Milling Quality Prediction with Explainable Machine Learning

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cs.SE2026

Probabilistic Model Checking of Autoregressive Neural Sequence Models

Helge Spieker, Dennis Gross, Arnaud Gotlieb

Test-set accuracy is silent on two issues that matter when deploying autoregressive neural sequence models: how much probability mass the system under test (SUT) places on constrai…

cs.AI2026

Automated Testing of LLM-Based Post Hoc Explainers Using Model Checking as an Oracle

Dennis Gross, Helge Spieker

Large language models (LLMs) are used as post hoc explainers of sequential decision-making policies, producing natural-language explanations of why an action was chosen. However, L…

cs.LG2026

Gimitest: A Comprehensive Tool for Testing Reinforcement Learning Policies

Dennis Gross, Quentin Mazouni, Helge Spieker +1

Reinforcement learning (RL) policies can be unsafe and vulnerable to attacks. Ensuring their reliability is often a pain point as existing automated testing methods target only sel…

cs.AI2026

COOL-MC: Verifying and Explaining RL Policies for Multi-bridge Network Maintenance

Dennis Gross

Aging bridge networks require proactive, verifiable, and interpretable maintenance strategies, yet reinforcement learning (RL) policies trained solely on reward signals provide no…

cs.AI2026

COOL-MC: Verifying and Explaining RL Policies for Platelet Inventory Management

Dennis Gross

Platelets expire within five days. Blood banks face uncertain daily demand and must balance ordering decisions between costly wastage from overstocking and life-threatening shortag…

cs.LG2026

Semi-supervised CAPP Transformer Learning via Pseudo-labeling

Dennis Gross, Helge Spieker, Arnaud Gotlieb +3

High-level Computer-Aided Process Planning (CAPP) generates manufacturing process plans from part specifications. It suffers from limited dataset availability in industry, reducing…

cs.AI2025

Translating the Rashomon Effect to Sequential Decision-Making Tasks

Dennis Gross, Jørn Eirik Betten, Helge Spieker

The Rashomon effect describes the phenomenon where multiple models trained on the same data produce identical predictions while differing in which features they rely on internally.…

cs.AI2025

Verifying Memoryless Sequential Decision-making of Large Language Models

Dennis Gross, Helge Spieker, Arnaud Gotlieb

We introduce a tool for rigorous and automated verification of large language model (LLM)- based policies in memoryless sequential decision-making tasks. Given a Markov decision pr…

cs.AI2025

Bounded PCTL Model Checking of Large Language Model Outputs

Dennis Gross, Helge Spieker, Arnaud Gotlieb

In this paper, we introduce LLMCHECKER, a model-checking-based verification method to verify the probabilistic computation tree logic (PCTL) properties of an LLM text generation pr…

cs.SE2025

Reusable Test Suites for Reinforcement Learning

Jørn Eirik Betten, Quentin Mazouni, Dennis Gross +2

Reinforcement learning (RL) agents show great promise in solving sequential decision-making tasks. However, validating the reliability and performance of the agent policies' behavi…

cs.SE2025★ 1 cited

Prompting for Performance: Exploring LLMs for Configuring Software

Helge Spieker, Théo Matricon, Nassim Belmecheri +7

Software systems usually provide numerous configuration options that can affect performance metrics such as execution time, memory usage, binary size, or bitrate. On the one hand,…

cs.AI2025

Co-Activation Graph Analysis of Safety-Verified and Explainable Deep Reinforcement Learning Policies

Dennis Gross, Helge Spieker

Deep reinforcement learning (RL) policies can demonstrate unsafe behaviors and are challenging to interpret. To address these challenges, we combine RL policy model checking--a tec…

cs.LG2024

Safety-Oriented Pruning and Interpretation of Reinforcement Learning Policies

Dennis Gross, Helge Spieker

Pruning neural networks (NNs) can streamline them but risks removing vital parameters from safe reinforcement learning (RL) policies. We introduce an interpretable RL method called…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

Efficient Milling Quality Prediction with Explainable Machine Learning

Dennis Gross, Helge Spieker, Arnaud Gotlieb +2

This paper presents an explainable machine learning (ML) approach for predicting surface roughness in milling. Utilizing a dataset from milling aluminum alloy 2017A, the study empl…

cs.LG2024

Enhancing RL Safety with Counterfactual LLM Reasoning

Dennis Gross, Helge Spieker

Reinforcement learning (RL) policies may exhibit unsafe behavior and are hard to explain. We use counterfactual large language model reasoning to enhance RL policy safety post-trai…

cs.AI2024

Enhancing Manufacturing Quality Prediction Models through the Integration of Explainability Methods

Dennis Gross, Helge Spieker, Arnaud Gotlieb +1

This research presents a method that utilizes explainability techniques to amplify the performance of machine learning (ML) models in forecasting the quality of milling processes,…

cs.AI2024

Probabilistic Model Checking of Stochastic Reinforcement Learning Policies

Dennis Gross, Helge Spieker

We introduce a method to verify stochastic reinforcement learning (RL) policies. This approach is compatible with any RL algorithm as long as the algorithm and its corresponding en…