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Klaus Robert Muller

12 accepted papers

2025

Manipulating Feature Visualizations with Gradient Slingshots

NeurIPS 2025poster

Feature Visualization (FV) is a widely used technique for interpreting concepts learned by Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), which synthesizes input patterns that maximally activate a given feature. Despite its popularity, the trustworthiness of FV explanations has received limited attention. We introduc…

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2025

Sampling 3D Molecular Conformers with Diffusion Transformers

NeurIPS 2025poster

Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) have demonstrated strong performance in generative modeling, particularly in image synthesis, making them a compelling choice for molecular conformer generation. However, applying DiTs to molecules introduces novel challenges, such as integrating discrete molecular grap…

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2025

Smoothed Differentiation Efficiently Mitigates Shattered Gradients in Explanations

NeurIPS 2025poster

Explaining complex machine learning models is a fundamental challenge when developing safe and trustworthy deep learning applications. To date, a broad selection of explainable AI (XAI) algorithms exist. One popular choice is SmoothGrad, which has been conceived to alleviate the well-known shattered…

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2024

MambaLRP: Explaining Selective State Space Sequence Models

NeurIPS 2024poster

Recent sequence modeling approaches using selective state space sequence models, referred to as Mamba models, have seen a surge of interest. These models allow efficient processing of long sequences in linear time and are rapidly being adopted in a wide range of applications such as language modelin…

2024

Set Learning for Accurate and Calibrated Models

ICLR 2024poster

Model overconfidence and poor calibration are common in machine learning and difficult to account for when applying standard empirical risk minimization. In this work, we propose a novel method to alleviate these problems that we call odd-$k$-out learning (OKO), which minimizes the cross-entropy err…

2024

xMIL: Insightful Explanations for Multiple Instance Learning in Histopathology

NeurIPS 2024poster

Multiple instance learning (MIL) is an effective and widely used approach for weakly supervised machine learning. In histopathology, MIL models have achieved remarkable success in tasks like tumor detection, biomarker prediction, and outcome prognostication. However, MIL explanation methods are stil…

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2023

Physics-Informed Bayesian Optimization of Variational Quantum Circuits

NeurIPS 2023poster

In this paper, we propose a novel and powerful method to harness Bayesian optimization for variational quantum eigensolvers (VQEs) - a hybrid quantum-classical protocol used to approximate the ground state of a quantum Hamiltonian. Specifically, we derive a *VQE-kernel* which incorporates important…

2023

Relevant Walk Search for Explaining Graph Neural Networks

ICML 2023poster

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have become important machine learning tools for graph analysis, and its explainability is crucial for safety, fairness, and robustness. Layer-wise relevance propagation for GNNs (GNN-LRP) evaluates the relevance of walks to reveal important information flows in the netw…

2022

So3krates: Equivariant attention for interactions on arbitrary length-scales in molecular systems

NeurIPS 2022accept

The application of machine learning methods in quantum chemistry has enabled the study of numerous chemical phenomena, which are computationally intractable with traditional ab-initio methods. However, some quantum mechanical properties of molecules and materials depend on non-local electronic effec…

2021

Efficient hierarchical Bayesian inference for spatio-temporal regression models in neuroimaging

NeurIPS 2021poster

Several problems in neuroimaging and beyond require inference on the parameters of multi-task sparse hierarchical regression models. Examples include M/EEG inverse problems, neural encoding models for task-based fMRI analyses, and climate science. In these domains, both the model parameters to be in…

2021

Explainable Deep One-Class Classification

ICLR 2021poster

Deep one-class classification variants for anomaly detection learn a mapping that concentrates nominal samples in feature space causing anomalies to be mapped away. Because this transformation is highly non-linear, finding interpretations poses a significant challenge. In this paper we present an ex…

2021

SE(3)-equivariant prediction of molecular wavefunctions and electronic densities

NeurIPS 2021poster

Machine learning has enabled the prediction of quantum chemical properties with high accuracy and efficiency, allowing to bypass computationally costly ab initio calculations. Instead of training on a fixed set of properties, more recent approaches attempt to learn the electronic wavefunction (or de…

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