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MCML at NeurIPS 2025

56 Accepted Papers (42 Main, and 14 Workshops)

39th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, San Diego, CA, USA, Nov 30-Dec 07, 2025

We are happy to announce that MCML researchers have contributed a total of 56 papers to NeurIPS 2025: 42 Main, and 14 Workshop papers. Congrats to our researchers!

Main Track (42 papers)

H. Amad • Z. Qian • D. Frauen • J. Piskorz • S. Feuerriegel • M. van der Schaar
Improving the Generation and Evaluation of Synthetic Data for Downstream Medical Causal Inference.
NeurIPS 2025 - 39th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems. San Diego, CA, USA, Nov 30-Dec 07, 2025. URL

N. Araslanov • A. Ribic • D. Cremers
FlowFeat: Pixel-Dense Embedding of Motion Profiles.
NeurIPS 2025 - 39th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems. San Diego, CA, USA, Nov 30-Dec 07, 2025. Spotlight Presentation. URL

D. Bareeva • M. Höhne • A. Warnecke • L. Pirch • K.-R. Müller • K. Rieck • S. Lapuschkin • K. Bykov
Manipulating Feature Visualizations with Gradient Slingshots.
NeurIPS 2025 - 39th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems. San Diego, CA, USA, Nov 30-Dec 07, 2025. URL GitHub

C. I. BerceaJ. Li • P. Raffler • E. O. Riedel • L. Schmitzer • A. Kurz • F. Bitzer • P. Roßmüller • J. Canisius • M. L. Beyrle • C. Liu • W. Bai • B. Kainz • J. A. SchnabelB. Wiestler
NOVA: A Benchmark for Rare Anomaly Localization and Clinical Reasoning in Brain MRI.
NeurIPS 2025 - 39th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems. San Diego, CA, USA, Nov 30-Dec 07, 2025. URL

H. Baniecki • M. Muschalik • F. Fumagalli • B. Hammer • E. Hüllermeier • P. Biecek
Explaining Similarity in Vision-Language Encoders with Weighted Banzhaf Interactions.
NeurIPS 2025 - 39th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems. San Diego, CA, USA, Nov 30-Dec 07, 2025. URL

N. Bar • M. Seleznova • Y. Alexander • G. Kutyniok • R. Giryes
Revisiting Glorot Initialization for Long-Range Linear Recurrences.
NeurIPS 2025 - 39th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems. San Diego, CA, USA, Nov 30-Dec 07, 2025. URL

A. Crăciun • D. Ghoshdastidar
Non-Singularity of the Gradient Descent Map for Neural Networks with Piecewise Analytic Activations.
NeurIPS 2025 - 39th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems. San Diego, CA, USA, Nov 30-Dec 07, 2025. Spotlight Presentation. URL

J. ChoiH. LimS. Schneider • J. Choo
ConceptScope: Characterizing Dataset Bias via Disentangled Visual Concepts.
NeurIPS 2025 - 39th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems. San Diego, CA, USA, Nov 30-Dec 07, 2025. URL

Z. Cao • X. Zhao • L. Krieger • H. Scharr • I. Assent
LeapFactual: Reliable Visual Counterfactual Explanation Using Conditional Flow Matching.
NeurIPS 2025 - 39th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems. San Diego, CA, USA, Nov 30-Dec 07, 2025. URL

C. DamkeE. Hüllermeier
Adjusted Count Quantification Learning on Graphs.
NeurIPS 2025 - 39th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems. San Diego, CA, USA, Nov 30-Dec 07, 2025. URL

W. Durani • C. Leiber • K. Durani • C. Plant • C. Böhm
Anomaly Detection by an Ensemble of Random Pairs of Hyperspheres.
NeurIPS 2025 - 39th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems. San Diego, CA, USA, Nov 30-Dec 07, 2025. URL

O. DhaouadiR. MarinJ. Meier • J. Kaiser • D. Cremers
OrthoLoC: UAV 6-DoF Localization and Calibration Using Orthographic Geodata.
NeurIPS 2025 - 39th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems. San Diego, CA, USA, Nov 30-Dec 07, 2025. Oral Presentation. URL GitHub

T. DeckerV. Tresp • F. Buettner
Improving Perturbation-based Explanations by Understanding the Role of Uncertainty Calibration.
NeurIPS 2025 - 39th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems. San Diego, CA, USA, Nov 30-Dec 07, 2025. Spotlight Presentation. URL

L. EyringS. Karthik • A. Dosovitskiy • N. Ruiz • Z. Akata
Noise Hypernetworks: Amortizing Test-Time Compute in Diffusion Models.
NeurIPS 2025 - 39th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems. San Diego, CA, USA, Nov 30-Dec 07, 2025. URL GitHub

D. FrauenV. MelnychukJ. Schweisthal • M. van der Schaar • S. Feuerriegel
Treatment Effect Estimation for Optimal Decision-Making.
NeurIPS 2025 - 39th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems. San Diego, CA, USA, Nov 30-Dec 07, 2025. URL

D. FrauenM. SchröderK. HeßS. Feuerriegel
Orthogonal Survival Learners for Estimating Heterogeneous Treatment Effects from Time-to-Event Data.
NeurIPS 2025 - 39th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems. San Diego, CA, USA, Nov 30-Dec 07, 2025. URL

M. Gross • A. Fahmy • D. Niwattananan • D. Muhle • R. Song • D. Cremers • H. Meeß
IPFormer: Visual 3D Panoptic Scene Completion with Context-Adaptive Instance Proposals.
NeurIPS 2025 - 39th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems. San Diego, CA, USA, Nov 30-Dec 07, 2025. URL GitHub

R. Huang • G. Zhai • Z. Bauer • M. Pollefeys • F. Tombari • L. Guibas • G. Huang • F. Engelmann
Video Perception Models for 3D Scene Synthesis.
NeurIPS 2025 - 39th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems. San Diego, CA, USA, Nov 30-Dec 07, 2025. URL

C. Kolb • L. Frost • B. BischlD. Rügamer
Differentiable Sparsity via D-Gating: Simple and Versatile Structured Penalization.
NeurIPS 2025 - 39th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems. San Diego, CA, USA, Nov 30-Dec 07, 2025. Spotlight Presentation. URL

G. König • H. Fokkema • T. Freiesleben • C. Mendler-Dünner • U. von Luxburg
Performative Validity of Recourse Explanations.
NeurIPS 2025 - 39th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems. San Diego, CA, USA, Nov 30-Dec 07, 2025. URL

M. Kollovieh • N. Fleischmann • F. Guerranti • B. Charpentier • S. Günnemann
TreeGen: A Bayesian Generative Model for Hierarchies.
NeurIPS 2025 - 39th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems. San Diego, CA, USA, Nov 30-Dec 07, 2025. URL

M. KmicikiewiczV. Fortuin • E. Szczurek
ProSpero: Active Learning for Robust Protein Design Beyond Wild-Type Neighborhoods.
NeurIPS 2025 - 39th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems. San Diego, CA, USA, Nov 30-Dec 07, 2025. URL

T. Kaufmann • Y. Metz • D. A. Keim • E. Hüllermeier
ResponseRank: Data-Efficient Reward Modeling through Preference Strength Learning.
NeurIPS 2025 - 39th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems. San Diego, CA, USA, Nov 30-Dec 07, 2025. URL

F. KöhlerN. Thuerey
Neural Emulator Superiority: When Machine Learning for PDEs Surpasses its Training Data.
NeurIPS 2025 - 39th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems. San Diego, CA, USA, Nov 30-Dec 07, 2025. URL GitHub

T. LöhrP. Hofman • F. Mohr • E. Hüllermeier
Credal Prediction based on Relative Likelihood.
NeurIPS 2025 - 39th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems. San Diego, CA, USA, Nov 30-Dec 07, 2025. Spotlight Presentation. URL

P.-F. Massiani • C. Fiedler • L. Haverbeck • F. Solowjow • S. Trimpe
Kernel conditional tests from learning-theoretic bounds.
NeurIPS 2025 - 39th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems. San Diego, CA, USA, Nov 30-Dec 07, 2025. URL

Y. MaD. FrauenJ. SchweisthalS. Feuerriegel
LLM-Driven Treatment Effect Estimation Under Inference Time Text Confounding.
NeurIPS 2025 - 39th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems. San Diego, CA, USA, Nov 30-Dec 07, 2025. URL

Y. MansourR. Heckel
Measuring Fingerprints of Web-filtered Text Datasets and Fingerprint Propagation Through Training.
NeurIPS 2025 - 39th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems. San Diego, CA, USA, Nov 30-Dec 07, 2025. Spotlight Presentation. URL

B. M. G. Nielsen • E. Marconato • A. Dittadi • L. Gresele
When Does Closeness in Distribution Imply Representational Similarity? An Identifiability Perspective.
NeurIPS 2025 - 39th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems. San Diego, CA, USA, Nov 30-Dec 07, 2025. URL

Y. Ozyurt • T. Almaci • S. Feuerriegel • M. Sachan
Personalized Exercise Recommendation with Semantically-Grounded Knowledge Tracing.
NeurIPS 2025 - 39th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems. San Diego, CA, USA, Nov 30-Dec 07, 2025. URL

E. Özsoy • A. Mamur • F. TristramC. PellegriniM. WysockiB. BusamN. Navab
EgoExOR: An Ego-Exo-Centric Operating Room Dataset for Surgical Activity Understanding.
NeurIPS 2025 - 39th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems. San Diego, CA, USA, Nov 30-Dec 07, 2025. URL GitHub

M. PachS. KarthikQ. Bouniot • S. Belongie • Z. Akata
Sparse Autoencoders Learn Monosemantic Features in Vision-Language Models.
NeurIPS 2025 - 39th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems. San Diego, CA, USA, Nov 30-Dec 07, 2025. URL GitHub

T. Ressler-AntalF. Fundel • M. B. Alaya • S. A. Baumann • F. KrauseM. GuiB. Ommer
DisMo: Disentangled Motion Representations for Open-World Motion Transfer.
NeurIPS 2025 - 39th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems. San Diego, CA, USA, Nov 30-Dec 07, 2025. Spotlight Presentation. URL GitHub

R. Römer • A. Kobras • L. Worbis • A. P. Schöllig
Failure Prediction at Runtime for Generative Robot Policies.
NeurIPS 2025 - 39th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems. San Diego, CA, USA, Nov 30-Dec 07, 2025. URL GitHub

S. N. RamachandranM. K. LalS. Sra
Cross-fluctuation phase transitions reveal sampling dynamics in diffusion models.
NeurIPS 2025 - 39th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems. San Diego, CA, USA, Nov 30-Dec 07, 2025. URL

M. SchröderD. FrauenJ. SchweisthalK. HeßV. MelnychukS. Feuerriegel
Conformal Prediction for Causal Effects of Continuous Treatments.
NeurIPS 2025 - 39th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems. San Diego, CA, USA, Nov 30-Dec 07, 2025. URL

Y. Shen • W. Lai • S. Wang • X. Zhang • K. Luo • A. Fraser • M. Sun
DCAD-2000: A Multilingual Dataset across 2000+ Languages with Data Cleaning as Anomaly Detection.
NeurIPS 2025 - 39th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems. San Diego, CA, USA, Nov 30-Dec 07, 2025. URL

K. Sakalyan • A. PalmaF. GuerrantiF. J. TheisS. Günnemann
Modeling Microenvironment Trajectories on Spatial Transcriptomics with NicheFlow.
NeurIPS 2025 - 39th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems. San Diego, CA, USA, Nov 30-Dec 07, 2025. URL

T. SchmidtS. Schneider • M. Bethge
Equivariance by Contrast: Identifiable Equivariant Embeddings from Unlabeled Finite Group Actions.
NeurIPS 2025 - 39th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems. San Diego, CA, USA, Nov 30-Dec 07, 2025. URL

Y. Wang • Z. ChenX. Zhu
Learning Generalizable Shape Completion with SIM(3) Equivariance.
NeurIPS 2025 - 39th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems. San Diego, CA, USA, Nov 30-Dec 07, 2025. URL

X. WangM. WangY. LiuH. SchützeB. Plank
Refusal Direction is Universal Across Safety-Aligned Languages.
NeurIPS 2025 - 39th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems. San Diego, CA, USA, Nov 30-Dec 07, 2025. URL

M. Yau • E. Akyürek • J. Mao • J. B. Tenenbaum • S. Jegelka • J. Andreas
Learning Linear Attention in Polynomial Time.
NeurIPS 2025 - 39th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems. San Diego, CA, USA, Nov 30-Dec 07, 2025. Oral Presentation. URL

Workshops (14 papers)

S. Chen • Z. Han • H. ChenB. He • S. Si • J. Wu • P. Torr • V. Tresp • J. Gu
Bag of Tricks for Subverting Reasoning-based Safety Guardrails.
ResponsibleFM @NeurIPS 2025 - Workshop on Socially Responsible and Trustworthy Foundation Models at the 39th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems. San Diego, CA, USA, Nov 30-Dec 07, 2025. URL GitHub

S. Chen • Z. Li • Z. Han • B. HeT. LiuH. Chen • G. Groh • P. Torr • V. Tresp • J. Gu
Deep Research Brings Deeper Harm.
ReliableML @NeurIPS 2025 - Workshop on Reliable ML from Unreliable Data at the 39th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems. San Diego, CA, USA, Nov 30-Dec 07, 2025. URL GitHub

H. Chen • Y. Zhang • Y. BiY. ZhangT. LiuJ. BiJ. Lan • C. Grosser • D. Krompaß • J. Gu • N. NavabV. Tresp
Does Machine Unlearning Truly Remove Knowledge?
Lock-LLM @NeurIPS 2025 - Lock-LLM Workshop: Prevent Unauthorized Knowledge Use from Large Language Models at the 39th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems. San Diego, CA, USA, Nov 30-Dec 07, 2025. URL

R. Fani • R. Al Attrach • Y. Jia • D. Restrepo • L. A. Celi • P. J. Schüffler
Volatility-Aware Masking Improves Performance and Efficiency of Pretrained EHR Foundation Models.
TS4H @NeurIPS 2025 - Workshop on Learning from Time Series for Health at the 39th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems. San Diego, CA, USA, Nov 30-Dec 07, 2025. URL

Y. HuangK. RothQ. Bouniot • W. Xu • Z. Akata
Towards understanding multimodal in-context learning.
WCTD @NeurIPS 2025 - What Can(’t) Transformers Do? Workshop at the 39th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems. San Diego, CA, USA, Nov 30-Dec 07, 2025. PDF

J. Lan • Z. Liu • T. Seidl
Human Uncertainty-Aware Reliable Data Selection and Efficient Annotation for Visual Question Answering.
ReliableML @NeurIPS 2025 - Workshop on Reliable ML from Unreliable Data at the 39th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems. San Diego, CA, USA, Nov 30-Dec 07, 2025. URL

A. Ramazzina • T. Haab • D. Fitzek • S. Gasperini • J. Uhrig • M. Bijelic
Reasoning with Fewer Eyes: Efficient Visual Token Withdrawal for Multimodal Reasoning.
ER @NeurIPS 2025 - Workshop on Efficient Reasoning at the 39th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems. San Diego, CA, USA, Nov 30-Dec 07, 2025. URL

Y. E. Şahin • N. KilbertusS. Becker
Predicting symbolic ODEs from multiple trajectories.
ML4PS @NeurIPS 2025 - Workshop on Machine Learning and the Physical Sciences at the 39th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems. San Diego, CA, USA, Nov 30-Dec 07, 2025. PDF

V. SteidlX. Zhu
Hierarchical Graph Networks for Forecasting Terrestrial Water Storage Anomalies.
ML4PS @NeurIPS 2025 - Workshop on Machine Learning and the Physical Sciences at the 39th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems. San Diego, CA, USA, Nov 30-Dec 07, 2025. PDF

M. V. Tran • C. L. Müller
Causal Inference Framework for Ocean Microbial Community Responses to Warmer Temperature.
Climate Change AI @NeurIPS 2025 - Workshop on Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning at the 39th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems. San Diego, CA, USA, Nov 30-Dec 07, 2025. URL

L. VelosoL. HirlimannP. WickeH. Schütze
SLAyiNG: Towards Queer Language Processing.
QueerInAI @NeurIPS 2025 - Queer in AI Workshop at the 39th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems. San Diego, CA, USA, Nov 30-Dec 07, 2025. arXiv

Y. WangD. FrauenJ. SchweisthalM. SchröderS. Feuerriegel
How reliable are treatment effects in clinical trials with dropout?
CauScien @NeurIPS 2025 - Workshop on Uncovering Causality in Science at the 39th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems. San Diego, CA, USA, Nov 30-Dec 07, 2025. URL

X. Zhao • L. Krieger • Z. Cao • A. Bangun • H. Scharr • I. Assent
Probabilistic Framework for Robustness of Counterfactual Explanations Under Data Shifts.
ReliableML @NeurIPS 2025 - Workshop on Reliable ML from Unreliable Data at the 39th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems. San Diego, CA, USA, Nov 30-Dec 07, 2025. URL

Y. Zhang • Y. Wu • H. Zhang • W. Li • H. Chen • G. Li • Z. Han • V. Tresp
GroundedPRM: Tree-Guided and Fidelity-Aware Process Reward Modeling for Step-Level Reasoning.
SEA @NeurIPS 2025 - Workshop on Scaling Environments for Agents at the 39th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems. San Diego, CA, USA, Nov 30-Dec 07, 2025. URL

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