M.A. (Matias) Valdenegro Toro, Dr

Assistant Professor of Machine Learning

Faculty of Science and Engineering

Telephone:

+31 50 36 36533

E-mail:

m.a.valdenegro.toro rug.nl

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Research interests

My research interests are in building trustworthy machine learning models with real-world data for several applications, including medical AI and Robotics. These relate to Uncertainty Estimation, Computer Vision, and Explainable AI.

Publications

A Neuromorphic Approach to Obstacle Avoidance in Robot Manipulation

Abdelrahman, A. F., Valdenegro-Toro, M., Bennewitz, M. & Plöger, P. G., 8-Apr-2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: International Journal of Robotics Research. 36 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review

How disentangled are your classification uncertainties?

de Jong, I. P., Sburlea, A. I. & Valdenegro-Toro, M., 22-Aug-2024, 11 p.

Research output: Working paper › Preprint › Academic

Know What You do Not Know: Verbalized Uncertainty Estimation Robustness on Corrupted Images in Vision-Language Models

Borszukovski, M., de Jong, I. P. & Valdenegro-Toro, M., 4-Apr-2024, (Submitted) TrustNLP Workshop @ NAACL 2025: Fifth Workshop on Trustworthy Natural Language Processing. Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL Anthology

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review

Mapping Transformer Leveraged Embeddings for Cross-Lingual Document Representation

Tashu, T. M., Kontos, E.-R., Sabatelli, M. & Valdenegro-Toro, M., 12-Jan-2024, (Submitted) arXiv, 12 p.

Research output: Working paper › Preprint › Academic

Overconfidence is Key: Verbalized Uncertainty Evaluation in Large Language and Vision-Language Models

Groot, T. & Valdenegro-Toro, M., 5-May-2024, (Submitted) arXiv, 27 p.

Research output: Working paper › Preprint › Academic

Transferring BCI models from calibration to control: Observing shifts in EEG features

de Jong, I. P., van den Wittenboer, L., Valdenegro-Toro, M. & Sburlea, A. I., 9-Sept-2024, Proceedings of the 9th Graz Brain-Computer Interface Conference 2024. Müller-Putz, G., Kostoglou, K., Oberndorfer, M. E. & Wriessnegger, S. C. (eds.). Verlag der Technischen Universität Graz, p. 156-161 6 p.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review

All (22) publications

Press/media

Participation in Podcast "Hacia Afuera"

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06/01/2023

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M.A. (Matias) Valdenegro Toro, Dr

Research interests

Publications

A Neuromorphic Approach to Obstacle Avoidance in Robot Manipulation

How disentangled are your classification uncertainties?

Know What You do Not Know: Verbalized Uncertainty Estimation Robustness on Corrupted Images in Vision-Language Models

Mapping Transformer Leveraged Embeddings for Cross-Lingual Document Representation

Overconfidence is Key: Verbalized Uncertainty Evaluation in Large Language and Vision-Language Models

Transferring BCI models from calibration to control: Observing shifts in EEG features

Uncertainty Quantification for cross-subject Motor Imagery classification

Unified Uncertainties: Combining Input, Data and Model Uncertainty into a Single Formulation

DExT: Detector Explanation Toolkit

Difficulty Estimation With Action Scores for Computer Vision Tasks

Press/media

Participation in Podcast "Hacia Afuera"