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most citedDoes Your Model Think Like an Engineer? Explainable AI for Bearing Fault Detection with Deep Learning

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

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9 papers

cs.LG2026

Also Small Models Can Reasonably Self-Evaluate Their Confidence

Idil Kapikiran, Thomas Decker, Thomas Runkler

This study systematically evaluates self-evaluation-based uncertainty quantification across different language models of varying sizes on question-answering tasks spanning general…

cs.LG2025

Improving Perturbation-based Explanations by Understanding the Role of Uncertainty Calibration

Thomas Decker, Volker Tresp, Florian Buettner

Perturbation-based explanations are widely utilized to enhance the transparency of machine-learning models in practice. However, their reliability is often compromised by the unkno…

cs.LG2025

Fine-Grained Uncertainty Decomposition in Large Language Models: A Spectral Approach

Nassim Walha, Sebastian G. Gruber, Thomas Decker +4

As Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly integrated in diverse applications, obtaining reliable measures of their predictive uncertainty has become critically important. A…

cs.LG2025

Why Uncertainty Calibration Matters for Reliable Perturbation-based Explanations

Thomas Decker, Volker Tresp, Florian Buettner

Perturbation-based explanations are widely utilized to enhance the transparency of modern machine-learning models. However, their reliability is often compromised by the unknown mo…

cs.LG2025

Incremental Uncertainty-aware Performance Monitoring with Active Labeling Intervention

Alexander Koebler, Thomas Decker, Ingo Thon +2

We study the problem of monitoring machine learning models under gradual distribution shifts, where circumstances change slowly over time, often leading to unnoticed yet significan…

cs.LG2024

Explanatory Model Monitoring to Understand the Effects of Feature Shifts on Performance

Thomas Decker, Alexander Koebler, Michael Lebacher +3

Monitoring and maintaining machine learning models are among the most critical challenges in translating recent advances in the field into real-world applications. However, current…

cs.LG2024

Provably Better Explanations with Optimized Aggregation of Feature Attributions

Thomas Decker, Ananta R. Bhattarai, Jindong Gu +2

Using feature attributions for post-hoc explanations is a common practice to understand and verify the predictions of opaque machine learning models. Despite the numerous technique…

cs.LG2023★ 8 cited

Does Your Model Think Like an Engineer? Explainable AI for Bearing Fault Detection with Deep Learning

Thomas Decker, Michael Lebacher, Volker Tresp

Deep Learning has already been successfully applied to analyze industrial sensor data in a variety of relevant use cases. However, the opaque nature of many well-performing methods…

cs.LG2023★ 6 cited

Towards Scenario-based Safety Validation for Autonomous Trains with Deep Generative Models

Thomas Decker, Ananta R. Bhattarai, Michael Lebacher

Modern AI techniques open up ever-increasing possibilities for autonomous vehicles, but how to appropriately verify the reliability of such systems remains unclear. A common approa…