VLDB 2026 Research / reviewers in the wild / expert
Goncalo J. Gouveia
dblp:430/1588
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2026
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 since 2021Graphics, computer vision, multimedia, augmented reality and games · 1 · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Artificial intelligence
1 paper |
Probabilistic and Bayesian machine learning · 100% | |
| Theoretical computer science
1 paper |
Mathematical optimization · 50% Algorithms and data structures · 50% | |
| Interdisciplinary, comprehensive, and emerging computing
1 paper |
Bioinformatics and computational biology · 100% |
Topics — the 4 heaviest of 5, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Machine learning › Probabilistic and Bayesian machine learning › structured models › latent variable model
latent variable inference |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | Unsupervised Combinatorial Probabilistic Reasoning: Probabilistic Coin Change Problem · AAAI 2026 |
Machine learning › Probabilistic and Bayesian machine learning
probabilistic inference |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | Unsupervised Combinatorial Probabilistic Reasoning: Probabilistic Coin Change Problem · AAAI 2026 |
Algorithms and data structures › number-theoretic algorithms
coin problem |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | Unsupervised Combinatorial Probabilistic Reasoning: Probabilistic Coin Change Problem · AAAI 2026 |
Mathematical optimization
combinatorial optimization |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | Unsupervised Combinatorial Probabilistic Reasoning: Probabilistic Coin Change Problem · AAAI 2026 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
reconstruction loss · 3.0differentiable probabilistic reasoning · 3.0deep learning · 3.0
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Unsupervised Combinatorial Probabilistic Reasoning: Probabilistic Coin Change ProblemabstractWe introduce the Probabilistic Coin Change Problem (PCCP), a novel variant of the classical Combination Coin Change Problem (CCCP), motivated by a real-world scientific inverse task. The goal of CCCP is to enumerate all unordered combinations of coin denominations that sum to a given target. In PCCP, each coin type’s value follows a discrete probability distribution, and the aggregate value of a combination of coins is thus stochastic. Given a set of such coin types and noisy observations of total sums, the task is to infer the most likely latent coin combination. To address the combinatorial and probabilistic complexity of PCCP, we propose DeepProReasoner (Deep Combinatorial Probabilistic Reasoning with Embedded Representations), an unsupervised, end-to-end, deep-learning framework that integrates combinatorial reasoning, latent-space modeling, and differentiable probabilistic reasoning. The model is trained using a reconstruction loss between the observed empirical distribution and a decoded probability mass function (PMF), enabling efficient gradient-based search over a continuous relaxation of the combinatorial space. We evaluate DeepProReasoner on two instances of PCCP: (1) a synthetic Candy Mix problem for ablation studies, and (2) a real-world task of molecular formula inference from ultrahigh resolution mass spectrometry (MS) data. Besides the two given instances, PCCP captures a wide range of inverse settings in biology, chemistry, environmental sciences, and medicine, where latent combinatorial structures give rise to noisy aggregate observations through stochastic processes. Our results show that DeepProReasoner achieves high accuracy and robustness, outperforming state-of-the-art methods. Zhongdi Qu, Yingheng Wang, Utku Umur Acikalin, Aaron M. Ferber, Goncalo J. Gouveia, Brandon Bills, Joshua Kline, Sunandini Yedla, Frank C. Schroeder, Carla P. Gomes |
AAAI | 5 |