Publications

2025

Trends in Pediatric Hospital Admissions Caused or Contributed by SARS-CoV-2 Infection in England

To investigate the changing characteristics of SARS-CoV-2-related pediatric hospital admissions over time. STUDY DESIGN: This was a national, observational cohort study from July 1, 2020, to August …

Harrison Wilde, Christopher Tomlinson, Bilal A. Mateen, David Selby, Hari Krishnan Kanthimathinathan, Spiros Denaxas, Seth Flaxman, Sebastian Vollmer, Christina Pagel, Katherine Brown 2025

Actionable Trustworthy AI with a Knowledge-based Debugger

The rapidly evolving regulatory landscape in AI presents significant challenges to establishing and maintaining trust. AI practitioners face a substantial burden in understanding and operationalizing …

Priyabanta Sandulu, Andrea Šipka, Sergey Redyuk, Sebastian J. Vollmer 2025

The Power of Stories: Narrative Priming in Multi-Agent Networked Public Goods Games

Research suggests that large-scale human cooperation is driven by shared narratives that encode common beliefs and values. This study explores whether such narratives can similarly nudge LLM agents …

Gerrit Großmann, Larisa Ivanova, Sai Leela Poduru, Mohaddeseh Tabrizian, Islam Mesabah, David Antony Selby, Sebastian Vollmer 2025

Describing variability of intensively collected longitudinal ordinal data with latent spline models

Population health studies increasingly collect longitudinal, patient-reported symptom data via mobile devices, offering unique insights into experiences outside clinical settings, such as pain, …

Mark Lunt, David Antony Selby, William Dixon 2025

X-Hacking: The Threat of Misguided AutoML

Explainable AI (XAI) and interpretable machine learning methods help to build trust in model predictions and derived insights, yet also present a perverse incentive for analysts to manipulate XAI …

Rahul Sharma, Sumantrak Mukherjee, Andrea Sipka, Eyke Hüllermeier, Sebastian Vollmer, Sergey Redyuk, David Antony Selby 2025

Had Enough of Experts? Quantitative Knowledge Retrieval From Large Language Models

Large language models (LLMs) have been extensively studied for their ability to generate convincing natural language sequences; however, their utility for quantitative information retrieval is less …

David Selby, Yuichiro Iwashita, Kai Spriestersbach, Mohammad Saad, Dennis Bappert, Archana Warrier, Sumantrak Mukherjee, Koichi Kise, Sebastian Vollmer 2025

Beyond the black box with biologically informed neural networks

Machine learning models for multi-omics data often trade off predictive accuracy against biological interpretability. An emerging class of deep learning architectures structurally encode biological …

David A. Selby, Maximilian Sprang, Jan Ewald, Sebastian J. Vollmer 2025