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Thomas Decker

5 accepted papers

2026

Fine-grained Uncertainty Decomposition in Large Language Models: A Spectral Approach

AAAI 2026technical

As Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly integrated in diverse applications, obtaining reliable measures of their predictive uncertainty has become critically important. A precise distinction between aleatoric uncertainty, arising from inherent ambiguities within input data, and epistemic un

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2025

Improving Perturbation-based Explanations by Understanding the Role of Uncertainty Calibration

NeurIPS 2025spotlight

Perturbation-based explanations are widely utilized to enhance the transparency of machine-learning models in practice. However, their reliability is often compromised by the unknown model behavior under the specific perturbations used. This paper investigates the relationship between uncertainty ca…

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2025

Incremental Uncertainty-aware Performance Monitoring with Active Labeling Intervention

AISTATS 2025poster

We study the problem of monitoring machine learning models under gradual distribution shifts, where circumstances change slowly over time, often leading to unnoticed yet significant declines in accuracy. To address this, we propose Incremental Uncertainty-aware Performance Monitoring (IUPM), a novel…

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2024

Provably Better Explanations with Optimized Aggregation of Feature Attributions

ICML 2024poster

Using feature attributions for post-hoc explanations is a common practice to understand and verify the predictions of opaque machine learning models. Despite the numerous techniques available, individual methods often produce inconsistent and unstable results, putting their overall reliability into…

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2023

Does Your Model Think Like an Engineer? Explainable AI for Bearing Fault Detection with Deep Learning

ICASSP 2023accepted

Deep Learning has already been successfully applied to analyze industrial sensor data in a variety of relevant use cases. However, the opaque nature of many well-performing methods poses a major obstacle for real-world deployment. Explainable AI (XAI) and especially feature attribution techniques pr…

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