Yana Stoyanova

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2ranked-venue papers
2as first author
2since 2021 · last 2025
—ORCID · none

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Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 2 · 2 first-author · 2 since 2021Graphics, computer vision, multimedia, augmented reality and games · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021

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Artificial intelligence
1 paper
Trustworthy machine learning · 50% Kernel, tree and ensemble methods · 50%

Topics — the 4 heaviest of 4, each with the papers that count most for it

TopicWeightPapersLastEvidence papers
Machine learning › Kernel, tree and ensemble methods › ensemble learning
ensemble diversity
0.712023
Toward Robust Uncertainty Estimation with Random Activation Functions · AAAI 2023
Machine learning › Trustworthy machine learning › uncertainty estimation › model uncertainty
ensemble uncertainty
0.712023
Toward Robust Uncertainty Estimation with Random Activation Functions · AAAI 2023
Machine learning › Kernel, tree and ensemble methods › ensemble learning
neural network ensemble
0.712023
Toward Robust Uncertainty Estimation with Random Activation Functions · AAAI 2023
Machine learning › Trustworthy machine learning
uncertainty estimation
0.712023
Toward Robust Uncertainty Estimation with Random Activation Functions · AAAI 2023

Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics

random activation functions · 0.7expectation-maximization · 0.7
YearPublicationVenuePosition
2025 Cross-Domain Generalization with Reverse Dynamics Models in Offline Model-Based Reinforcement Learning
Yana Stoyanova, Maryam Tavakol
ICAART (2)1
2023 Toward Robust Uncertainty Estimation with Random Activation Functions
abstract
Deep neural networks are in the limelight of machine learning with their excellent performance in many data-driven applications. However, they can lead to inaccurate predictions when queried in out-of-distribution data points, which can have detrimental effects especially in sensitive domains, such as healthcare and transportation, where erroneous predictions can be very costly and/or dangerous. Subsequently, quantifying the uncertainty of the output of a neural network is often leveraged to evaluate the confidence of its predictions, and ensemble models have proved to be effective in measuring the uncertainty by utilizing the variance of predictions over a pool of models. In this paper, we propose a novel approach for uncertainty quantification via ensembles, called Random Activation Functions (RAFs) Ensemble, that aims at improving the ensemble diversity toward a more robust estimation, by accommodating each neural network with a different (random) activation function. Extensive empirical study demonstrates that RAFs Ensemble outperforms state-of-the-art ensemble uncertainty quantification methods on both synthetic and real-world datasets in a series of regression tasks.
Yana Stoyanova, Soroush Ghandi, Maryam Tavakol
AAAI1