The HuMaLearn team at UNamur provides expertise on Human-centered Machine Learning.

The team is a part of the Namur Digital Institute (NADI) and the PReCISE research center.

Our research focuses on Human-centered Machine Learning, covering a variety of research topics including:

  • Interpretability and explainability (for dimensionality reduction, recommender systems…)

  • Constraints for encouraging trustworthiness, fairness and interpretability

  • Deep learning models with embedded invariance (rotation, translation…)

  • Robustness in machine learning (label noise, outliers…)

  • Stability of feature selection and dimensionality reduction methods

Several of our research works tackle dimensionality reduction and deep learning from different perspectives: safety (enforcing constraints, fairness and testing for decision trees and neural networks, as well as developing new rotation-invariant CNNs), interactivity (integration of users in dimensionality reduction for visualization and representation learning) and interpretability/explainability (user studies, extensions of LIME, saliency maps, metrics for interpretability and explanations for unsupervised learning). Our work on robustness also focuses on label noise and probabilistic models, to account for the influence of noisy labels and other types of abnormal data. We use a variety of models, such as neural networks, probabilistic models and kernel machines, and we collaborate with colleagues in application contexts such as industry 4.0, open data, sign language, law, software engineering and physics, among others.

Sensors and MAchine learning for RemoTe Smart EnviroNmental monitoring SystemS (SMARTSENS)

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Post-hoc Explanations for Integrating User Feedback in Dimensionality Reduction

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Trust Mechanisms for AI

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Open Government Data Storytelling

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Verifying Learning Artificial Intelligence Systems (VeriLearn)

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Open positions will be posted here.

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Benoît Frénay

Professor


Armielle Noulapeu Ngaffo

Postdoctoral Researcher

Arnaud Bougaham

PhD Student

Géraldin Nanfack

PhD Student

Julien Albert

PhD Student

Jérôme Fink

PhD Student

Michael Lognoul

PhD Student

Mohammed El Adoui

Postdoctoral Researcher

Paul Temple

Postdoctoral Researcher

Rebecca Marion

Postdoctoral Researcher

Sacha Corbugy

PhD Student

Full team

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