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Veronika Thost

12 accepted papers

2026

Complementing Self-Consistency with Cross-Model Disagreement for Uncertainty Quantification

ICLR 2026poster

Large language models (LLMs) often produce confident yet incorrect responses, and uncertainty quantification is one potential solution to more robust usage. Recent works routinely rely on self-consistency to estimate aleatoric uncertainty (AU), yet this proxy collapses when models are overconfident…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2024

A Graph per Persona: Reasoning about Subjective Natural Language Descriptions

ACL 2024findings

Reasoning about subjective natural language descriptions, such as opinions and preferences, is a challenging topic that largely remains unsolved to date. In particular, state-of-the-art large language models (LLMs) perform disappointingly in this task, show strong biases, and do not meet the interpr…

2024

Representing Molecules as Random Walks Over Interpretable Grammars

ICML 2024spotlight

Recent research in molecular discovery has primarily been devoted to small, drug-like molecules, leaving many similarly important applications in material design without adequate technology. These applications often rely on more complex molecular structures with fewer examples that are carefully des…

Cited by 3SourcePDFScholar
2023

Hierarchical Grammar-Induced Geometry for Data-Efficient Molecular Property Prediction

ICML 2023poster

The prediction of molecular properties is a crucial task in the field of material and drug discovery. The potential benefits of using deep learning techniques are reflected in the wealth of recent literature. Still, these techniques are faced with a common challenge in practice: Labeled data are lim…

2023

Improving Self-supervised Molecular Representation Learning using Persistent Homology

NeurIPS 2023poster

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has great potential for molecular representation learning given the complexity of molecular graphs, the large amounts of unlabelled data available, the considerable cost of obtaining labels experimentally, and the hence often only small training datasets. The importanc…

2023

Knowledge Graph Compression Enhances Diverse Commonsense Generation

EMNLP 2023long main

Generating commonsense explanations requires reasoning about commonsense knowledge beyond what is explicitly mentioned in the context. Existing models use commonsense knowledge graphs such as ConceptNet to extract a subgraph of relevant knowledge pertaining to concepts in the input. However, due to…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2022

Data-Efficient Graph Grammar Learning for Molecular Generation

ICLR 2022oral

The problem of molecular generation has received significant attention recently. Existing methods are typically based on deep neural networks and require training on large datasets with tens of thousands of samples. In practice, however, the size of class-specific chemical datasets is usually limite…

2022

Improving Inductive Link Prediction Using Hyper-Relational Facts (Extended Abstract)

IJCAI 2022poster

For many years, link prediction on knowledge. graphs has been a purely transductive task, not allowing for reasoning on unseen entities. Recently, increasing efforts are put into exploring semi- and fully inductive scenarios, enabling inference over unseen and emerging entities. Still, all these…

2021

A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach to First-Order Logic Theorem Proving

AAAI 2021technical

Automated theorem provers have traditionally relied on manually tuned heuristics to guide how they perform proof search. Deep reinforcement learning has been proposed as a way to obviate the need for such heuristics, however, its deployment in automated theorem proving remains a challenge. In this p…

2021

CodeNet: A Large-Scale AI for Code Dataset for Learning a Diversity of Coding Tasks

NeurIPS 2021poster

Over the last several decades, software has been woven into the fabric of every aspect of our society. As software development surges and code infrastructure of enterprise applications ages, it is now more critical than ever to increase software development productivity and modernize legacy applicat…

Cited by 327SourcecodeScholar