Pairwise learning to rank by neural networks revisited: reconstruction, theoretical analysis and practical performance.

Andreas Karwath University of Mainz, Germany http://www.informatik.uni-mainz.de/arbeitsgruppen/informationssysteme/personen-infosys/andreas.karwath-de https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6942-3760 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q60558900

Marius Köppel Alexander Segner Martin Wagener Lukas Pensel Andreas Karwath Stefan Kramer 0001 Pairwise learning to rank by neural networks revisited: reconstruction, theoretical analysis and practical performance. 112 2025 April 114 Mach. Learn. 4 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10994-024-06644-6 db/journals/ml/ml114.html#KoppelSWPKK25 streams/journals/ml

Chris Sainsbury Andreas Karwath ASCENDgpt: A Phenotype-Aware Transformer Model for Cardiovascular Risk Prediction from Electronic Health Records. 2025 September abs/2509.04485 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2509.04485 db/journals/corr/corr2509.html#abs-2509-04485 streams/journals/corr

Yuting Zhang Boyang Liu Karina V. Bunting David Brind Alexander Thorley Andreas Karwath Wenqi Lu 0001 Diwei Zhou Xiaoxia Wang Alastair R. Mobley Otilia Tica Georgios V. Gkoutos Dipak Kotecha Jinming Duan 0001 Development of Automated Neural Network Prediction for Echocardiographic Left ventricular Ejection Fraction. 2024 abs/2403.12152 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2403.12152 db/journals/corr/corr2403.html#abs-2403-12152

Luke T. Slater John A. Williams 0002 Paul N. Schofield Sophie Russell Samantha C. Pendleton Andreas Karwath Hilary Fanning Simon Ball Robert Hoehndorf Georgios V. Gkoutos Klarigi: Characteristic explanations for semantic biomedical data. 106425 2023 February 153 Comput. Biol. Medicine https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compbiomed.2022.106425 db/journals/cbm/cbm153.html#SlaterWSRPKFBHG23

Luke T. Slater Sophie Russell Silver Makepeace Alexander Carberry Andreas Karwath John A. Williams 0002 Hilary Fanning Simon Ball Robert Hoehndorf Georgios V. Gkoutos Evaluating semantic similarity methods for comparison of text-derived phenotype profiles. 33 2022 22 BMC Medical Informatics Decis. Mak. 1 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12911-022-01770-4 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q111150078 db/journals/midm/midm22.html#SlaterRMCKWFBHG22

Honghan Wu Minhong Wang 0002 Jinge Wu Farah Francis Yun-Hsuan Chang Alex Shavick Hang Dong 0002 Michael Tin Chung Poon Natalie K. Fitzpatrick Adam P. Levine Luke T. Slater Alex Handy Andreas Karwath Georgios V. Gkoutos Claude Chelala Anoop D. Shah Robert Stewart 0002 Nigel Collier Beatrice Alex William Whiteley Cathie Sudlow Angus Roberts Richard J. B. Dobson A survey on clinical natural language processing in the United Kingdom from 2007 to 2022. 2022 5 npj Digit. Medicine https://doi.org/10.1038/s41746-022-00730-6 db/journals/npjdm/npjdm5.html#Wu0WFCS0PFLSHKG22

Luke T. Slater Andreas Karwath John A. Williams 0002 Sophie Russell Silver Makepeace Alexander Carberry Robert Hoehndorf Georgios V. Gkoutos Towards similarity-based differential diagnostics for common diseases. 104360 2021 133 Comput. Biol. Medicine https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compbiomed.2021.104360 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q112827396 db/journals/cbm/cbm133.html#SlaterKWRMCHG21

Samantha C. Pendleton Luke T. Slater Andreas Karwath Rose M. Gilbert Nicola Davis Konrad Pesudovs Xiaoxuan Liu Alastair K. Denniston Georgios V. Gkoutos Tasanee Braithwaite Development and application of the ocular immune-mediated inflammatory diseases ontology enhanced with synonyms from online patient support forum conversation. 104542 2021 135 Comput. Biol. Medicine https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compbiomed.2021.104542 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q112827395 db/journals/cbm/cbm135.html#PendletonSKGDPL21

Luke T. Slater John A. Williams 0002 Andreas Karwath Hilary Fanning Simon Ball Paul N. Schofield Robert Hoehndorf Georgios V. Gkoutos Multi-faceted semantic clustering with text-derived phenotypes. 104904 2021 138 Comput. Biol. Medicine https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compbiomed.2021.104904 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q112827393 db/journals/cbm/cbm138.html#SlaterWKFBSHG21

Luke T. Slater Andreas Karwath Robert Hoehndorf Georgios V. Gkoutos Effects of Negation and Uncertainty Stratification on Text-Derived Patient Profile Similarity. 781227 2021 3 Frontiers Digit. Health https://doi.org/10.3389/fdgth.2021.781227 db/journals/fdgth/fdgth3.html#SlaterKHG21

Honghan Wu Huayu Zhang Andreas Karwath Zina M. Ibrahim Ting Shi Xin Zhang Kun Wang Jiaxing Sun Kevin Dhaliwal Daniel Bean Victor Roth Cardoso Kezhi Li James T. Teo Amitava Banerjee Fang Gao-Smith Tony Whitehouse Tonny Veenith Georgios V. Gkoutos Xiaodong Wu Richard J. B. Dobson Bruce Guthrie Ensemble learning for poor prognosis predictions: A case study on SARS-CoV-2. 791-800 2021 28 J. Am. Medical Informatics Assoc. 4 https://doi.org/10.1093/jamia/ocaa295 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q102055659 db/journals/jamia/jamia28.html#WuZKISZWSDBCLTB21

Marius Köppel Alexander Segner Martin Wagener Lukas Pensel Andreas Karwath Stefan Kramer 0001 Pairwise Learning to Rank by Neural Networks Revisited: Reconstruction, Theoretical Analysis and Practical Performance. 237-252 2019 ECML/PKDD (3) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46133-1_15 conf/pkdd/2019-3 db/conf/pkdd/pkdd2019-3.html#KoppelSWPK019

Marius Köppel Alexander Segner Martin Wagener Lukas Pensel Andreas Karwath Stefan Kramer 0001 Pairwise Learning to Rank by Neural Networks Revisited: Reconstruction, Theoretical Analysis and Practical Performance. 2019 abs/1909.02768 CoRR http://arxiv.org/abs/1909.02768 db/journals/corr/corr1909.html#abs-1909-02768

Michael Geilke Andreas Karwath Eibe Frank Stefan Kramer 0001 Online estimation of discrete, continuous, and conditional joint densities using classifier chains. 561-603 2018 32 Data Min. Knowl. Discov. 3 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10618-017-0546-6 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q62661245 db/journals/datamine/datamine32.html#GeilkeKF018

Maxat Kulmanov Senay Kafkas Andreas Karwath Alexander Malic Georgios V. Gkoutos Michel Dumontier Robert Hoehndorf Vec2SPARQL: integrating SPARQL queries and knowledge graph embeddings. 2018 SWAT4LS https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2275/paper12.pdf conf/swat4ls/2018 db/conf/swat4ls/swat4ls2018.html#KulmanovKKMGDH18 Andreas Karwath Markus Hubrich Stefan Kramer 0001 Convolutional Neural Networks for the Identification of Regions of Interest in PET Scans: A Study of Representation Learning for Diagnosing Alzheimer's Disease. 316-321 2017 AIME https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59758-4_36 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q62661247 conf/aime/2017 db/conf/aime/aime2017.html#KarwathH017 Michael Geilke Andreas Karwath Stefan Kramer 0001 Online Density Estimation of Heterogeneous Data Streams in Higher Dimensions. 65-80 2016 ECML/PKDD (1) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46128-1_5 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q62661250 conf/pkdd/2016-1 db/conf/pkdd/pkdd2016-1.html#GeilkeK016 Michael Geilke Andreas Karwath Stefan Kramer 0001 Modeling recurrent distributions in streams using possible worlds. 1-9 2015 DSAA https://doi.org/10.1109/DSAA.2015.7344814 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q62661253 conf/dsaa/2015 db/conf/dsaa/dsaa2015.html#GeilkeK015

Martin Gütlein Andreas Karwath Stefan Kramer 0001 CheS-Mapper 2.0 for visual validation of (Q)SAR models. 41 2014 6 J. Cheminformatics 1 https://doi.org/10.1186/s13321-014-0041-7 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q27902276 db/journals/jcheminf/jcheminf6.html#GutleinKK14

Michael Geilke Andreas Karwath Stefan Kramer 0001 A probabilistic condensed representation of data for stream mining. 297-303 2014 DSAA https://doi.org/10.1109/DSAA.2014.7058088 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q62661257 conf/dsaa/2014 db/conf/dsaa/dsaa2014.html#GeilkeK014 Madeleine Seeland Andreas Karwath Stefan Kramer 0001 Structural clustering of millions of molecular graphs. 121-128 2014 SAC https://doi.org/10.1145/2554850.2555063 conf/sac/2014 db/conf/sac/sac2014.html#SeelandKK14 Madeleine Seeland Andreas Maunz Andreas Karwath Stefan Kramer 0001 Extracting information from support vector machines for pattern-based classification. 129-136 2014 SAC https://doi.org/10.1145/2554850.2555065 conf/sac/2014 db/conf/sac/sac2014.html#SeelandMKK14 Michael Geilke Eibe Frank Andreas Karwath Stefan Kramer 0001 Online Estimation of Discrete Densities. 191-200 2013 ICDM https://doi.org/10.1109/ICDM.2013.91 https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/ICDM.2013.91 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q58560403 conf/icdm/2013 db/conf/icdm/icdm2013.html#GeilkeFKK13

Martin Gütlein Andreas Karwath Stefan Kramer 0001 CheS-Mapper - Chemical Space Mapping and Visualization in 3D. 7 2012 4 J. Cheminformatics https://doi.org/10.1186/1758-2946-4-7 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q42536207 db/journals/jcheminf/jcheminf4.html#GutleinKK12

Slawomir Grzonka Andreas Karwath Frederic Dijoux Wolfram Burgard Activity-Based Estimation of Human Trajectories. 234-245 2012 28 IEEE Trans. Robotics 1 https://doi.org/10.1109/TRO.2011.2165372 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q62661266 db/journals/trob/trob28.html#GrzonkaKDB12

Madeleine Seeland Andreas Karwath Stefan Kramer 0001 A structural cluster kernel for learning on graphs. 516-524 2012 KDD https://doi.org/10.1145/2339530.2339614 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q62661262 conf/kdd/2012 db/conf/kdd/kdd2012.html#SeelandKK12

Barry J. Hardy Nicki Douglas Christoph Helma Micha Rautenberg Nina Jeliazkova Vedrin Jeliazkov Ivelina Nikolova Romualdo Benigni Olga Tcheremenskaia Stefan Kramer 0001 Tobias Girschick Fabian Buchwald Jörg Wicker Andreas Karwath Martin Gütlein Andreas Maunz Haralambos Sarimveis Georgia Melagraki Antreas Afantitis Pantelis Sopasakis David Gallagher Vladimir Poroikov Dmitry Filimonov Alexey V. Zakharov Alexey Lagunin Tatyana Gloriozova Sergey Novikov Natalia Skvortsova Dmitry S. Druzhilovskiy Sunil Chawla Indira Ghosh Surajit Ray Hitesh Patel Sylvia Escher Collaborative development of predictive toxicology applications. 7 2010 2 J. Cheminformatics https://doi.org/10.1186/1758-2946-2-7 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q27162585 db/journals/jcheminf/jcheminf2.html#HardyDHRJJNBTKGBWKGMSMASGPFZLGNSDCGRPE10

Slawomir Grzonka Frederic Dijoux Andreas Karwath Wolfram Burgard Learning Maps of Indoor Environments Based on Human Activity. 2010 AAAI Spring Symposium: Embedded Reasoning http://www.aaai.org/ocs/index.php/SSS/SSS10/paper/view/1172 conf/aaaiss/2010-4 db/conf/aaaiss/aaaiss2010-4.html#GrzonkaDKB10 Slawomir Grzonka Frederic Dijoux Andreas Karwath Wolfram Burgard Mapping indoor environments based on human activity. 476-481 2010 ICRA https://doi.org/10.1109/ROBOT.2010.5509976 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q62661271 conf/icra/2010 db/conf/icra/icra2010.html#GrzonkaDKB10 Martin Gütlein Eibe Frank Mark Hall 0002 Andreas Karwath Large-scale attribute selection using wrappers. 332-339 2009 CIDM https://doi.org/10.1109/CIDM.2009.4938668 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q58561013 conf/cidm/2009 db/conf/cidm/cidm2009.html#GutleinFHK09 Hannes Schulz Kristian Kersting Andreas Karwath ILP, the Blind, and the Elephant: Euclidean Embedding of Co-proven Queries. 209-216 2009 ILP https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13840-9_20 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q62661275 conf/ilp/2009 db/conf/ilp/ilp2009.html#SchulzKK09 Andreas Karwath Kristian Kersting Niels Landwehr Boosting Relational Sequence Alignments. 857-862 2008 ICDM https://doi.org/10.1109/ICDM.2008.127 https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/ICDM.2008.127 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q62661277 conf/icdm/2008 db/conf/icdm/icdm2008.html#KarwathKL08 Kristian Kersting Luc De Raedt Bernd Gutmann Andreas Karwath Niels Landwehr Relational Sequence Learning. 28-55 2008 Probabilistic Inductive Logic Programming https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-78652-8_2 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q62661279 conf/ilp/2008p db/conf/ilp/lncs4911.html#KerstingRGKL08 Ross D. King Andreas Karwath Amanda Clare Luc Dehaspe Logic and the Automatic Acquisition of Scientific Knowledge: An Application to Functional Genomics. 273-289 2007 conf/dis/2007book Computational Discovery of Scientific Knowledge https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73920-3_13 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q62661283 db/conf/dis/book2007.html#KingKCD07

Amanda Clare Andreas Karwath Helen Ougham Ross D. King Functional bioinformatics for <i>Arabidopsis thaliana</i>. 1130-1136 2006 22 Bioinform. 9 https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btl051 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q45966118 db/journals/bioinformatics/bioinformatics22.html#ClareKOK06

Amanda Clare Andreas Karwath Helen Ougham Ross D. King Functional bioinformatics for <i>Arabidopsis thaliana</i>. 1674 2006 22 Bioinform. 13 https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btl169 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q57460061 db/journals/bioinformatics/bioinformatics22.html#ClareKOK06a

Andreas Karwath Luc De Raedt SMIREP: Predicting Chemical Activity from SMILES. 2432-2444 2006 46 J. Chem. Inf. Model. 6 https://doi.org/10.1021/ci060159g https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q29391857 db/journals/jcisd/jcisd46.html#KarwathR06

Rolf Backofen Hans-Gunther Borrmann Werner Deck Andreas Dedner Luc De Raedt Klaus Desch Markus Diesmann Martin Geier Andreas Greiner Wolfgang R. Hess Josef Honerkamp Stefan Jankowski Ingo Krossing Andreas W. Liehr Andreas Karwath Robert Klöfkorn Raphaël Pesché Tobias C. Potjans Michael C. Röttger Lars Schmidt-Thieme Gerhard Schneider 0001 Björn Voß Bernd Wiebelt Peter Wienemann Volker-Henning Winterer A Bottom-up approach to Grid-Computing at a University: the Black-Forest-Grid Initiative. 81-87 2006 29 Prax. Inf.verarb. Kommun. 2 https://doi.org/10.1515/PIKO.2006.81 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q62661290 db/journals/pik/pik29.html#BackofenBDDRDDGGHHJKLKKPPRSSVWWW06

Andreas Karwath Kristian Kersting Relational Sequence Alignments and Logos. 290-304 2006 conf/ilp/2006 ILP https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73847-3_29 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q62661286 db/conf/ilp/ilp2006.html#KarwathK06 Christian Stolle Andreas Karwath Luc De Raedt CLASSIC'CL: An Integrated ILP System. 354-362 2005 conf/dis/2005 Discovery Science https://doi.org/10.1007/11563983_31 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q62661295 db/conf/dis/dis2005.html#StolleKR05 Andreas Karwath Luc De Raedt Predictive Graph Mining. 1-15 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30214-8_1 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q62661299 2004 conf/dis/2004 Discovery Science db/conf/dis/dis2004.html#KarwathR04 Björn Bringmann Andreas Karwath Frequent SMILES. 132-137 2004 conf/lwa/2004 LWA db/conf/lwa/lwa2004.html#BringmannK04

Andreas Karwath Ross D. King Homology Induction: the use of machine learning to improve sequence similarity searches. 11 2002 3 BMC Bioinform. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2105-3-11 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q24806775 db/journals/bmcbi/bmcbi3.html#KarwathK02

Ross D. King Andreas Karwath Amanda Clare Luc Dehaspe The utility of different representations of protein sequence for predicting functional class. 445-454 2001 17 Bioinform. 5 db/journals/bioinformatics/bioinformatics17.html#KingKCD01 https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/17.5.445 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q42648658

Andreas Karwath Ross D. King An Automated ILP Server in the Field of Bioinformatics. 91-103 2001 conf/ilp/2001 ILP https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44797-0_8 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q62661304 db/conf/ilp/ilp2001.html#KarwathK01 Ross D. King Andreas Karwath Amanda Clare Luc Dehaspe Genome scale prediction of protein functional class from sequence using data mining. 384-389 2000 conf/kdd/2000 KDD https://doi.org/10.1145/347090.347172 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q62661313 db/conf/kdd/kdd2000.html#KingKCD00 Antreas Afantitis Beatrice Alex Rolf Backofen Simon Ball Amitava Banerjee Daniel Bean Romualdo Benigni Hans-Gunther Borrmann Tasanee Braithwaite David Brind Björn Bringmann Fabian Buchwald Karina BuntingKarina V. Bunting Wolfram Burgard Alexander Carberry Victor Roth Cardoso Yun-Hsuan Chang Sunil Chawla Claude Chelala Amanda Clare Nigel Collier Nicola Davis Werner Deck Andreas Dedner Luc Dehaspe Alastair K. Denniston Klaus Desch Kevin Dhaliwal Markus Diesmann Frederic Dijoux Richard J. B. Dobson Hang Dong 0002 Nicki Douglas Dmitry S. Druzhilovskiy Jinming Duan 0001 Michel Dumontier Sylvia Escher Hilary Fanning Dmitry Filimonov Natalie K. Fitzpatrick Farah Francis Eibe Frank David Gallagher Fang Gao-Smith Martin Geier Michael Geilke Indira Ghosh Rose M. Gilbert Tobias Girschick Georgios V. Gkoutos Tatyana Gloriozova Andreas Greiner Slawomir Grzonka Bruce Guthrie Martin Gütlein Bernd Gutmann Mark A. HallMark Hall 0002 Alex Handy Barry J. Hardy Christoph Helma Wolfgang R. Hess Robert Hoehndorf Josef Honerkamp Markus Hubrich Zina M. Ibrahim Stefan Jankowski Vedrin Jeliazkov Nina Jeliazkova Senay Kafkas Andreas W. Kempa-LiehrAndreas W. Liehr Kristian Kersting Ross D. King Robert Klöfkorn Marius Köppel Dipak Kotecha Stefan Kramer 0001 Ingo Krossing Maxat Kulmanov Alexey Lagunin Niels Landwehr Adam P. Levine Kezhi Li Boyang Liu Xiaoxuan Liu Wenqi Lu 0001 Silver Makepeace Alexander Malic Andreas Maunz Georgia Melagraki Alastair R. Mobley Ivelina Nikolova Sergey Novikov Helen Ougham Hitesh Patel Samantha C. Pendleton Lukas Pensel Raphaël Pesché Konrad Pesudovs Michael Tin Chung Poon Vladimir Poroikov Tobias C. Potjans Luc De Raedt Micha Rautenberg Surajit Ray Angus Roberts Michael C. Röttger Sophie Russell Chris Sainsbury Haralambos Sarimveis Lars Schmidt-Thieme Gerhard Schneider 0001 Paul N. Schofield Hannes Schulz Madeleine Seeland Alexander Segner Anoop D. Shah Alex Shavick Ting Shi Natalia Skvortsova Luke T. Slater Pantelis Sopasakis Robert Stewart 0002 Christian Stolle Cathie Sudlow Jiaxing Sun Olga Tcheremenskaia James T. Teo Alexander Thorley Otilia Tica Tonny Veenith Björn Voß Martin Wagener Kun Wang Minhong Wang 0002 Xiaoxia Wang Tony Whitehouse William Whiteley Jörg Wicker Bernd Wiebelt Peter Wienemann John A. Williams 0002 Volker-Henning Winterer Honghan Wu Jinge Wu Xiaodong Wu Alexey V. Zakharov Huayu Zhang Xin Zhang Yuting Zhang Diwei Zhou