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Robert Noel Shorten

3 accepted papers

2026

EVEREST: A Transformer for Probabilistic Rare-Event Anomaly Detection with Evidential and Tail-Aware Uncertainty

ICLR 2026poster

Forecasting rare events in multivariate time-series data is a central challenge in machine learning, complicated by severe class imbalance, long-range dependencies, and distributional uncertainty. We introduce EVEREST, a transformer-based architecture for probabilistic rare-event forecasting that de…

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2026

Learning Network Dismantling Without Handcrafted Inputs

AAAI 2026technical

The application of message-passing Graph Neural Networks has been a breakthrough for important network science problems. However, the competitive performance often relies on using handcrafted structural features as inputs, which increases computational cost and introduces bias into the otherwise pur

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2024

Reinforcement Learning with Adaptive Regularization for Safe Control of Critical Systems

NeurIPS 2024poster

Reinforcement Learning (RL) is a powerful method for controlling dynamic systems, but its learning mechanism can lead to unpredictable actions that undermine the safety of critical systems. Here, we propose RL with Adaptive Regularization (RL-AR), an algorithm that enables safe RL exploration by com…