Utrecht University
University in the Netherlands providing education and conducting research across seven faculties. · Research
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Nebius identified Utrecht University as a Research credits participant using its compute in April 2025. The university's project analyzes biological data, including DNA methylation and mRNA information, to find biomarkers for diagnosing and predicting diseases. The work includes finding patterns and validating the findings.
Nebius Science reported in June 2026 that Nebius Academy supported Utrecht University's QuadraSHAP research. Researchers from two life sciences groups wanted to explain model predictions on samples containing thousands of protein readings. QuadraSHAP uses Gauss-Legendre quadrature to calculate Shapley values up to floating-point precision. The feature reported speeds three to five times faster than the standard SHAP library on tree ensembles, with numerical stability on deep forests. For kernels, it reported speedups of 25 times at 500 features and 95 times at 1,000. Beyond 2,000 features, the previous best method timed out while QuadraSHAP finished in seconds. The team plans to test extensions beyond trees and kernels, including recurrent architectures and biological applications.
Nebius also named Utrecht University among its Research Grants participants in August 2026. Separately, Utrecht researcher Pavel Sinitcyn served on the judging committee for Nebius's inaugural AI Discovery Awards.
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3 Jun 2026 · Nebius Science · Web page
Linda Petrini describes Utrecht University's QuadraSHAP research supported by Nebius Academy. Two life sciences groups sought explanations for model predictions on thousands of protein readings per sample. The method uses Gauss-Legendre quadrature to calculate Shapley values and reports kernel speedups of 25 times at 500 features and 95 times at 1,000.
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13 Aug 2026 · Nebius · Web page
Nebius identifies Utrecht University as a participant in its Research Grants program. It does not assign the listed projects or individual services to Utrecht University.
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uu.nlUtrecht University is a university in Utrecht, the Netherlands, providing academic education and conducting research across seven faculties. Its offerings include bachelor's and master's degrees, PhD programmes and continuing education for professionals. Its disciplines span humanities, social sciences, law, economics, governance, geosciences, natural sciences, medicine and veterinary medicine. It serves students and researchers and works with businesses, public authorities and civil society organisations through teaching partnerships, collaborative research, commissioned research and consultancy.
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