Teaser for Bridging Explainability and Embeddings: BEE Aware of Spuriousness
Cristian Daniel Paduraru, Antonio Barbalau, Radu Filipescu, Andrei Liviu Nicolicioiu, Elena Burceanu
Accepted at ICLR 2026 (poster) Apr 2026
Links: OpenReview GitHub Abstract Current methods for detecting spurious correlations rely on data splits or error patterns, leaving many harmful …
Teaser for BEE Aware of Spuriousness: Mechanistic Interpretability for Fine Tuning Foundation Models
[Bitdefender Machine Learning]
Feb 2026
Introduction Fine tuning is usually framed as “adaptation”. In practice, it can also manufacture shortcuts. A model can recognize the “right” object …
Feb 2026
The Deep Learning course at the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Bucharest is running again in 2026. It is aimed at …
Teaser for Investigating self-supervised representations for audio-visual deepfake detection
Dragos-Alexandru Boldisor, Stefan Smeu, Dan Oneata, Elisabeta Oneata
Accepted at CVPR 2026 Feb 2026
Links: arXiv GitHub Abstract Self-supervised representations excel at many vision and speech tasks, but their potential for audio-visual deepfake …
Teaser for CLewR: Curriculum Learning with Restarts for Machine Translation Preference Learning
Alexandra Dragomir, Florin Brad, Radu Tudor Ionescu
Accepted at ACL 2026 Jan 2026
Links: arXiv GitHub Abstract Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated competitive performance in zero-shot multilingual machine translation …
Dec 2025
A member of our team was recognized among the best reviewers at NeurIPS, reflecting sustained, high-quality peer review for the machine learning …
Teaser for C-ing Clearly: Enhanced Binary Code Explanations using C code
Teodor Poncu, Ioana Pintilie, Marius Dragoi, Dragos Tantaru, Florin Brad
Under review Dec 2025
Links: arXiv Abstract Large Language Models (LLMs) typically excel at coding tasks involving high-level programming languages, as opposed to …
Teaser for Beyond Pass@k: Breadth-Depth Metrics for Reasoning Boundaries
Marius Dragoi, Ioana Pintilie, Florin Gogianu, Florin Brad
Accepted at NeurIPS 2025 Workshop FoRLM (Poster) Dec 2025
Links: arXiv Abstract Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) has emerged as a powerful paradigm to improve Large Language Models on …
Teaser for ChronoGraph: A Real-World Graph-Based Multivariate Time Series Dataset
Adrian Catalin Lutu, Ioana Pintilie, Elena Burceanu, Andrei Manolache
Accepted at NeurIPS 2025 Workshop BERT2S (Oral) Dec 2025
Links: arXiv GitHub Abstract We present ChronoGraph, a graph-structured multivariate time series forecasting dataset built from real-world production …
Teaser for Not All Splits Are Equal: Rethinking Attribute Generalization Across Unrelated Categories
Liviu Nicolae Fircă, Antonio Bărbălau, Dan Oneata, Elena Burceanu
Accepted at NeurIPS 2025 Workshop CauScien (Poster) Dec 2025
Links: arXiv GitHub Abstract Can models generalize attribute knowledge across semantically and perceptually dissimilar categories? While prior work …