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Benjamin Säfken

4 accepted papers

2026

Variational Inference for Uncertain Optimal Transport via Sinkhorn Parametrization

ICML 2026poster

Optimal Transport (OT) traditionally relies on a fixed ground cost to produce a single deterministic transport plan—a practice that overlooks the inherent variability and noise in real-world data. While recent sampling based approaches of OT offer a principled way to quantify this uncertainty, these…

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2024

Human in the Loop: How to Effectively Create Coherent Topics by Manually Labeling Only a Few Documents per Class

COLING 2024main

Few-shot methods for accurate modeling under sparse label-settings have improved significantly. However, the applications of few-shot modeling in natural language processing remain solely in the field of document classification. With recent performance improvements, supervised few-shot methods, comb…

2024

Neural Additive Models for Location Scale and Shape: A Framework for Interpretable Neural Regression Beyond the Mean

AISTATS 2024poster

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have proven to be highly effective in a variety of tasks, making them the go-to method for problems requiring high-level predictive power. Despite this success, the inner workings of DNNs are often not transparent, making them difficult to interpret or understand. This la…

2024

STREAM: Simplified Topic Retrieval, Exploration, and Analysis Module

ACL 2024short

Topic modeling is a widely used technique to analyze large document corpora. With the ever-growing emergence of scientific contributions in the field, non-technical users may often use the simplest available software module, independent of whether there are potentially better models available. We pr…