Kilbertus group

Reliable machine learning

Niki Kilbertus

Group leader

Building robust, theoretically substantiated and socially beneficial machine learning systems

Our Helmholtz AI young investigator group broadly investigates machine learning systems that interact with humans, for example by making consequential decisions, affecting our behavior, or challenging our privacy. We focus on reliable, fair, and privacy preserving algorithms for these settings. As a key tool for trustworthy machine learning, we also aim at making causal inference techniques more applicable to systems involving humans.

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Causality
Reliable ML
Methodology

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Selected publications

Multi-disciplinary fairness considerations in machine learning for clinical trials. Isabel Chien, Nina Deliu, Richard Turner, Adrian Weller, Sofia Villar, NK. FAccT 2022 [coming]
Stochastic Causal Programming for Bounding Treatment Effects. Kirtan Padh, Jakob Zeitler, David Watson, Matt Kusner, Ricardo Silva, NK [paper]
Numerical Analysis of the Causal Action Principle in Low Dimensions. Felix Finster, Robert H. Jonsson, NK [paper]
On component interactions in two-stage recommender systems. Jiri Hron, Karl Krauth, Michael I. Jordan, NK. NeurIPS 2021 [paper]
Beyond Predictions in Neural ODEs: Identification and Interventions. Hananeh Aliee, Fabian Theis, NK [paper]
A causal view on compositional data. Elisabeth Ailer, Christian L. Müller, NK [paper]
On Disentangled Representations Learned From Correlated Data. Frederik Träuble, Elliot Creager, NK, Francesco Locatello, Andrea Dittadi, Anirudh Goyal, Bernhard Schölkopf, Stefan Bauer [paper]
Exploration in two-stage recommender systems. Jiri Hron*, Karl Krauth*, Michael I. Jordan, NK (* equal contribution). ACM RecSys 2020 Workshop on Bandit and Reinforcement Learning from User Interactions (REVEAL 2020), NeurIPS 2020 Workshop on Consequential Decisions in Dynamic Environments, NeurIPS 2020 Workshop on Challenges of Real-World RL [paper] [short talk video]
A class of algorithms for general instrumental variable models. NK, Matt J. Kusner, Ricardo Silva. NeurIPS 2020 [paper] [code] [talk video]
Fair decisions despite imperfect predictions. NK, Manuel Gomez-Rodriguez, Bernhard Schölkopf, Krikamol Muandet, Isabel Valera. AISTATS 2020 [paper] [bibtex] [code]
The sensitivity of counterfactual fairness to unmeasured confounding. NK, Philip Ball, Matt J. Kusner, Adrian Weller, Ricardo Silva. UAI 2019 [paper] [bibtex] [code]
Convolutional neural networks: a magic bullet for gravitational-wave detection? Timothy Gebhard*, NK*, Ian Harry, Bernhard Schölkopf (* equal contribution). Physical Review D, 2019 [paper] [bibtex] [code] [data generation] [DOI]
Improving consequential decision making under imperfect predictions. NK, Manuel Gomez-Rodriguez, Bernhard Schölkopf, Krikamol Muandet, Isabel Valera. KDD 2019 Workshop on Data Collection, Curation, and Labeling for Mining and Learning (DCCL) [paper]
Generalization in anti-causal learning. NK*, Giambattista Parascandolo*, Bernhard Schölkopf (* equal contribution). NeurIPS 2018 Workshop on Critiquing and correcting trends in machine learning [paper]
Blind Justice: Fairness with Encrypted Sensitive Attributes. NK, Adrià Gascón, Matt J. Kusner, Michael Veale, Krishna P. Gummadi, Adrian Weller. ICML 2018, also at: FATML 2018 [talk] and PIMLAI 2018 [paper] [bibtex] [poster] [code]
Learning Independent Causal Mechanisms. Giambattista Parascandolo, NK, Mateo Rojas-Carulla, Bernhard Schölkopf. ICML 2018, also at: NIPS 2017 Workshop on Learning Disentangled Representations [paper] [bibtex]
Avoiding Discrimination Through Causal Reasoning. NK, Mateo Rojas-Carulla, Giambattista Parascandolo, Moritz Hardt, Dominik Janzing, Bernhard Schölkopf. NeurIPS 2017 [paper] [bibtex] [poster]
ConvWave: Searching for Gravitational Waves with Fully Convolutional Neural Nets. Timothy Gebhard*, NK*, Giambattista Parascandolo, Ian Harry, Bernhard Schölkopf (* equal contribution). NeurIPS 2017 Workshop on Deep Learning for Physical Sciences [paper] [bibtex] [code] [poster]

Team

Elisabeth Ailer, PhD student
Sören Becker, PhD student
Zhufeng Li, PhD student
Kirtan Padh, PhD student
Till Richter, PhD student (shared with Fabian Theis & Yoshua Bengio)
Cecilia Casolo, PhD student
Michael Klein, MSc student

Alumni:

Simon Böhm, MSc student
Alexander Reisach, MSc student