Explanatory Data Analysis group
Dr. Lincen Yang
Postdoc
Lincen is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the EDA group. Before that, he obtained his PhD in Computer Science in the same group and his Master's in Statistics at the Leiden Mathematical Institute. Lincen's research focuses on interpretable probabilistic models, spanning the development of explainable models for probabilistic classification, conditional density estimation, causal learning, and anomaly detection. His work often reformulates existing, well-known problems, which typically eliminates the need for the ad hoc and heuristic components of current solutions. He is also interested in developing methods without hyperparameters for controlling regularization, which he achieves by designing the learning objective (model selection criterion) under the MDL framework. Lincen has also contributed to applied research in fields such as healthcare (clinical decision making and medical imaging), environmental science, and computer hardware.
Selected recent publications
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Probabilistic Truly Unordered Rule Sets. Journal of Machine Learning Research, JMLR, In press. |
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2026 |
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Efficient Flow Matching for Sparse-View CT Reconstruction. In: Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI 2026), 2026. |
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Rules, Not Rankings: Interpretable AI for Processor Microarchitecture Design Analysis. IEEE Computer Architecture Letters vol.25(1), IEEE, 2026. |
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Interpretable Machine Learning for Identifying ICU Readmission Risk in Subgroups with Probabilistic Rules. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association vol.33(3), pp 690-699, Oxford Journals , 2026. |
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Learning Subgroups with Maximum Treatment Effects without Causal Heuristics. In: Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2026), 2026. |
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Computational optimization for low-carbon and circular pavement management at the network level. Resources, Conservation & Recycling vol.225, Elsevier, 2026. |
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2025 |
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Scalable, Explainable and Provably Robust Anomaly Detection with One-Step Flow Matching. In: Proceedings of the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2025), 2025. |
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