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Hendrik Blockeel

4 accepted papers

2026

OC-space: a Unifying Perspective on Verification of Tree Ensembles

ICML 2026spotlight

We study the problem of verifying whether certain properties such as robustness or fairness hold in an ensemble of decision trees. This problem is known to be NP-hard, with most research targeting a solution to a specific verification task. We explore the problem through the lens of an ensemble's OC…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

Compressing tree ensembles through Level-wise Optimization and Pruning

ICML 2025poster

Tree ensembles (e.g., gradient boosting decision trees) are often used in practice because they offer excellent predictive performance while still being easy and efficient to learn. In some contexts, it is important to additionally optimize their size: this is specifically the case when models need…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2024

DeepSaDe: Learning Neural Networks That Guarantee Domain Constraint Satisfaction

AAAI 2024technical

As machine learning models, specifically neural networks, are becoming increasingly popular, there are concerns regarding their trustworthiness, specially in safety-critical applications, e.g. actions of an autonomous vehicle must be safe. There are approaches that can train neural networks where su…

Cited by 3SourcePDFScholar
2022

Unifying Knowledge Base Completion with PU Learning to Mitigate the Observation Bias

AAAI 2022technical

Methods for Knowledge Base Completion (KBC) reason about a knowledge base (KB) in order to derive new facts that should be included in the KB. This is challenging for two reasons. First, KBs only contain positive examples. This complicates model evaluation which needs both positive and negative exam…