InstitutTeam
Helena Graf
Helena Graf
Adresse
Appelstr. 9A
30167 Hannover
Gebäude
Raum
Helena Graf
Adresse
Appelstr. 9A
30167 Hannover
Gebäude
Raum

Research Interests

My research interests are Interactive and Explainable AutoML.

Curriculum Vitae

  • Working Experience

    2022 - Present
    Doctoral Researcher, Leibniz University Hannover

    2020 - 2022
    Doctoral Researcher, Paderborn University

  • Education

    2022 - Present
    Ph.D. Student (Dr. rer. nat), Leibniz University Hannover

    2018 - 2020
    Master of Science, Computer Science, Paderborn University

    2014 - 2018
    Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Paderborn University

  • Social Media

Publications


2023


Tornede, T., Tornede, A., Fehring, L., Gehring, L., Graf, H., Hanselle, J., Mohr, F., & Wever, M. (2023). PyExperimenter: Easily distribute experiments and track results.

arxiv.org/pdf/2301.06348.pdf


Projects

  • ERC Starting Grant: Interactive and Explainable Human-Centered AutoML
    Trust and interactivity are key factors in the future development and use of automated machine learning (AutoML), supporting developers and researchers in determining powerful task-specific machine learning pipelines, including pre-processing, predictive algorithm, their hyperparameters and--if applicable--the architecture design of deep neural networks. Although AutoML is ready for its prime time after it achieved impressive results in several machine learning (ML) applications and its efficiency improved by several orders of magnitudes in recent years, democratization of machine learning via AutoML is still not achieved. In contrast to previously purely automation-centered approaches, ixAutoML is designed with human users at its heart in several stages. First of all, the foundation of trustful use of AutoML will be based on explanations of its results and processes. Therefore, we aim for: (i) Explaining static effects of design decisions in ML pipelines optimized by state-of-the-art AutoML systems. (ii) Explaining dynamic AutoML policies for temporal aspects of dynamically adapted hyperparameters while ML models are trained. These explanations will be the base for allowing interactions, bringing the best of two worlds together: human intuition and generalization capabilities for complex systems, and efficiency of systematic optimization approaches for AutoML. Concretely, we aim for: (iii) Enabling interactions between humans and AutoML by taking human's latent knowledge into account and learning when to interact. (iv) Building first ixAutoML prototypes and showing its efficiency in the context of Industry 4.0. Perfectly aligned with the EU's AI strategy and recent efforts on interpretability in the ML community, we strongly believe that this timely human-centered ixAutoML will have a substantial impact on the democratization of machine learning.
    Leitung: Prof. Dr. Marius Lindauer
    Team: AutoML
    Jahr: 2022
    Förderung: EU
    Laufzeit: 2022-2027