Uncertainty-aware molecular retrieval

When can you trust the annotation? Selective Prediction for Molecular Structure Retrieval from MS/MS Spectra

We propose a selective prediction framework for the task of molecular structure retrieval via molecular fingerprint prediction from mass spectra..

Under review · April 2026 · Mira Jürgens, Gaetan De Waele, Morteza Rakshnaninejad, Willem Waegeman
Bias contamination in uncertainty estimates

Epistemic uncertainty estimation methods are fundamentally incomplete

We argue that current epistemic uncertainty methods are fundamentally incomplete: unaccounted bias contaminates aleatoric estimates, and existing methods capture only partial variance contributions.

accepted at ICML 2026 · February 2026 · Sebastián Jiménez*, Mira Jürgens*, Willem Waegeman
Faithfulness violations in evidential deep learning

Is Epistemic Uncertainty Faithfully Represented by Evidential Deep Learning Methods?

We show that evidential deep learning methods face fundamental optimisation difficulties and that their epistemic uncertainty estimates do not satisfy basic faithfulness properties.

ICML 2024 · July 2024 · Mira Jürgens, Nis Meinert, Viktor Bengs, Eyke Hüllermeier, Willem Waegeman