João Machado de Freitas, M.Sc., is a Research Associate for the Christian Doppler Laboratory for Dependable Intelligent Systems in Harsh Environments.

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Publications

• Journal article Bento Machado Marques de Freitas J. & Geiger B. (2025) Trustworthy Representation Learning via Information Funnels and Bottlenecks. in Machine Learning, 114(12). [more info] [doi]
• Conference paper Lampl N., Bento Machado Marques de Freitas J., Fuchs A. & Pernkopf F. (2025) Avoiding domain drift and constant predictions with diffusion enhanced vector-quantized autoencoders for temperature prediction. in 2025 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2025. [more info]
• Journal article Lobato C., Bento Machado Marques de Freitas J., Habich D., Berg G. & Cernava T. (2024) Wild again: recovery of a beneficial Cannabis seed endophyte from low domestication genotypes. in Microbiome, 12(1). [more info] [doi]