Teaser for Learning the Neighborhood: Contrast-Free Multimodal Self-Supervised Molecular Graph Pretraining
Boshra Ariguib, Mathias Niepert, Andrei Manolache
Under review Sep 2025
Links: arXiv GitHub Abstract High-quality molecular representations are essential for property prediction and molecular design, yet large labeled …
Sep 2025
A team member served as NeurIPS Associate Program Chair (Associate PC), helping shape the conference’s review process and paper selection.
Jun 2025
Our group was featured in a CVPR Daily interview during CVPR 2025. The interview can be found here
Teaser for Circumventing shortcuts in audio-visual deepfake detection datasets with unsupervised learning
Stefan Smeu, Dragos-Alexandru Boldisor, Dan Oneata, Elisabeta Oneata
Accepted at CVPR 2025 (Highlight, top 3%) Jun 2025
Links: arXiv · GitHub Abstract Good datasets are essential for developing and benchmarking any machine learning system. Their importance is even more …
Teaser for Do We Always Need the Simplicity Bias? Looking for Optimal Inductive Biases in the Wild
Damien Teney, Lianze Jiang, Florin Gogianu, Ehsan Abbasnejad
Accepted at CVPR 2025 (Oral, top 0.8%) Jun 2025
Links: arXiv · CVF Open Access Abstract Common choices of architecture give neural networks a preference for fitting data with simple functions. This …
Teaser for DeCLIP: Decoding CLIP representations for deepfake localization
Stefan Smeu, Elisabeta Oneata, Dan Oneata
Accepted at WACV 2025 (Oral) Feb 2025
Links: arXiv Proceedings GitHub Abstract Generative models can create entirely new images, but they can also partially modify real images in ways that …
Teaser for Robust Novelty Detection through Style-Conscious Feature Ranking
Stefan Smeu, Elena Burceanu, Emanuela Haller, Andrei Liviu Nicolicioiu
Accepted at WACV 2025 (Poster) Feb 2025
Links: arXiv Proceedings GitHub Abstract Novelty detection seeks to identify samples deviating from a known distribution, yet data shifts in a …
Teaser for Towards Fused Kernels for Gated MLP
Feb 2025
The decoder block of a Transformer is the basic unit of all modern LLMs. Most of the compute used for it is spent on self-attention and the MLP, with …
Teaser for ConceptDrift: Uncovering Biases through the Lens of Foundational Models
Cristian Daniel Paduraru, Antonio Barbalau, Radu Filipescu, Andrei Liviu Nicolicioiu, Elena Burceanu
Accepted at NeurIPS 2024 Workshop Interpretable AI: Past, Present and Future Dec 2024
Links: arXiv Abstract Datasets and pre-trained models come with intrinsic biases. Most methods rely on spotting them by analysing misclassified …
Teaser for MolMix: A Simple Yet Effective Baseline for Multimodal Molecular Representation Learning
A. Manolache, D. Tantaru, M. Niepert
Accepted at NeurIPS 2024 Workshop on Machine Learning for Structural Biology Dec 2024
Links: arXiv GitHub Abstract In this work, we propose a simple transformer-based baseline for multimodal molecular representation learning, …