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Sascha Marton

5 accepted papers

2025

DCBM: Data-Efficient Visual Concept Bottleneck Models

ICML 2025poster

Concept Bottleneck Models (CBMs) enhance the interpretability of neural networks by basing predictions on human-understandable concepts. However, current CBMs typically rely on concept sets extracted from large language models or extensive image corpora, limiting their effectiveness in data-sparse s…

2025

Mitigating Information Loss in Tree-Based Reinforcement Learning via Direct Optimization

ICLR 2025spotlight

Reinforcement learning (RL) has seen significant success across various domains, but its adoption is often limited by the black-box nature of neural network policies, making them difficult to interpret. In contrast, symbolic policies allow representing decision-making strategies in a compact and int…

2024

A Data-Centric Perspective on Evaluating Machine Learning Models for Tabular Data

NeurIPS 2024poster

Tabular data is prevalent in real-world machine learning applications, and new models for supervised learning of tabular data are frequently proposed. Comparative studies assessing performance differences typically have model-centered evaluation setups with overly standardized data preprocessing. Th…

2024

GRANDE: Gradient-Based Decision Tree Ensembles for Tabular Data

ICLR 2024poster

Despite the success of deep learning for text and image data, tree-based ensemble models are still state-of-the-art for machine learning with heterogeneous tabular data. However, there is a significant need for tabular-specific gradient-based methods due to their high flexibility. In this paper, we…

2024

GradTree: Learning Axis-Aligned Decision Trees with Gradient Descent

AAAI 2024technical

Decision Trees (DTs) are commonly used for many machine learning tasks due to their high degree of interpretability. However, learning a DT from data is a difficult optimization problem, as it is non-convex and non-differentiable. Therefore, common approaches learn DTs using a greedy growth algorith…