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Andrei Manolache

10 accepted papers

2026

Learning the Neighborhood: Contrast-Free Multimodal Self-Supervised Molecular Graph Pretraining

ICML 2026poster

High-quality molecular representations are essential for property prediction and molecular design, yet large labeled datasets remain scarce. While self-supervised pretraining on molecular graphs has shown promise, many existing approaches either depend on hand-crafted augmentations or complex genera…

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2026

Protein Fold Classification at Scale: Benchmarking and Pretraining

ICML 2026oral

Classifying protein topology is essential for deciphering biological function, but progress is held back by the lack of large-scale benchmarks that avoid duplicates and by models that do not scale well. We introduce TEDBench, a large-scale, non-redundant benchmark for protein fold classification con…

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2025

Learning (Approximately) Equivariant Networks via Constrained Optimization

NeurIPS 2025oral

Equivariant neural networks are designed to respect symmetries through their architecture, boosting generalization and sample efficiency when those symmetries are present in the data distribution. Real-world data, however, often departs from perfect symmetry because of noise, structural variation, m…

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2024

Probabilistic Graph Rewiring via Virtual Nodes

NeurIPS 2024poster

Message-passing graph neural networks (MPNNs) have emerged as a powerful paradigm for graph-based machine learning. Despite their effectiveness, MPNNs face challenges such as under-reaching and over-squashing, where limited receptive fields and structural bottlenecks hinder information flow in the g…

2024

Probabilistically Rewired Message-Passing Neural Networks

ICLR 2024poster

Message-passing graph neural networks (MPNNs) emerged as powerful tools for processing graph-structured input. However, they operate on a fixed input graph structure, ignoring potential noise and missing information. Furthermore, their local aggregation mechanism can lead to problems such as over-sq…

2023

AD-NLP: A Benchmark for Anomaly Detection in Natural Language Processing

EMNLP 2023long main

Deep learning models have reignited the interest in Anomaly Detection research in recent years. Methods for Anomaly Detection in text have shown strong empirical results on ad-hoc anomaly setups that are usually made by downsampling some classes of a labeled dataset. This can lead to reproducibility…

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2022

AnoShift: A Distribution Shift Benchmark for Unsupervised Anomaly Detection

NeurIPS 2022accept

Analyzing the distribution shift of data is a growing research direction in nowadays Machine Learning (ML), leading to emerging new benchmarks that focus on providing a suitable scenario for studying the generalization properties of ML models. The existing benchmarks are focused on supervised learni…

2022

Rethinking the Authorship Verification Experimental Setups

EMNLP 2022main

One of the main drivers of the recent advances in authorship verification is the PAN large-scale authorship dataset. Despite generating significant progress in the field, inconsistent performance differences between the closed and open test sets have been reported. To this end, we improve the experi…

2022

VeriDark: A Large-Scale Benchmark for Authorship Verification on the Dark Web

NeurIPS 2022accept

The Dark Web represents a hotbed for illicit activity, where users communicate on different market forums in order to exchange goods and services. Law enforcement agencies benefit from forensic tools that perform authorship analysis, in order to identify and profile users based on their textual cont…

2021

DATE: Detecting Anomalies in Text via Self-Supervision of Transformers

NAACL 2021long

Leveraging deep learning models for Anomaly Detection (AD) has seen widespread use in recent years due to superior performances over traditional methods. Recent deep methods for anomalies in images learn better features of normality in an end-to-end self-supervised setting. These methods train a mod…