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How Can Active Machine Learning Aid Kinetic Model Generation, and Why Should We Care?

Yannick Ureel , Maarten R. Dobbelaere , Istvan Lengyel , Maarten K. Sabbe , Kevin M. Van Geem

Engineering ›› 2025, Vol. 52 ›› Issue (9) : 14 -18.

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Yannick Ureel, Maarten R. Dobbelaere, Istvan Lengyel, Maarten K. Sabbe, Kevin M. Van Geem. How Can Active Machine Learning Aid Kinetic Model Generation, and Why Should We Care?. Engineering, 2025, 52 (9) : 14-18 DOI:10.1016/j.eng.2025.08.009

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