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Seminar

Winter 2025/26

The seminar takes place online on Fridays at 2:15 pm in this BBB room.

DateSpeakerTitle of Presentation
30 JanuaryMichael HabeckSelf-normalized importance sampling
16 JanuaryStefan RemkePerformance Modeling of Tensor Contractions
5 DecemberJulian MöbiusIntroduction to stochastic interpolants
21 NovemberTamino SteinertFast Tensor Contractions on an XDNA Neural Processing Unit

Summer 2025

The seminar took place online on Fridays at 2:15 pm.

DateSpeakerTitle of Presentation
20 JuneHenrik VoigtTransformer-based Symbolic Regression
13 JuneFerdinand SchlattHuggingFace Language Model Tutorial: BBB room for the tutorial
6 JuneLuca StausLearning Minimum-Size BDDs: Towards Efficient Exact Algorithms
23 MayTorsten BosseComputational Hypergraphs
9 MayJurek RostalskyHypergraph Coloring
25 AprilBrian ZahoranskyExploration of Multi-Dimensional Mixture Models

Winter 2024/25

The seminar took place online Fridays at at 2:15 pm.

DateSpeakerTitle of Presentation
20 DecemberShay MoranDifferentially Private Algorithms in Linear Algebra
(takes place in seminar room 3325)
13 DecemberMax EngelCompiling Tensor Expressions
8 NovemberJoachim GiesenDaten, Wissenschaft und die Entwicklung der KI
25 OctoberMaurice WenigServing MPE Queries with Tensor Networks

Summer 2024

The seminar took place online Fridays at at 2:15 pm.

DateSpeakerTitle of Presentation
2 SeptemberAlex HeineckeCPU? GPU? ASIC? Software? What is the Secret Sauce for AI?
31 MayMichael HabeckNested Sampling
24 MayBjörn FröhlichZEISS als Arbeitgeber für Wissenschaftler
17 MayKaspar KaschePolynomial Calculus for Quantified Boolean Formulas
3 MayPaul KahlmeyerSymbolic Regression
19 AprilPaul RumpConvexity Certificates for Tensor Expressions

Winter 2023/24

The seminar took place online Fridays at at 2:15 pm.

DateSpeakerTitle of Presentation
2 FebruaryPekka ParviainenA Structural Perspective on Learning Probabilistic Graphical Models
1 DecemberAlexander BreuerQuantization and Mobile Inference
17 NovemberAndreas LöhneFinite representation of quantile sets for multivariate data
via vector linear programming
10 NovemberAndreas GoralModel Counting and Sampling via Semiring Extensions

Summer 2023

The seminar took place online Fridays at at 2:15 pm.

DateSpeakerTitle of Presentation
7 JulyHenrik VoigtTree-Grammar Autoencoders
23 JuneTim HoffmannProof Complexity of Propositional Model Counting
9 JuneChristian KomusiewiczBayesian Network Structure Learning
19 MayPhilip SchaerGibbsian Polar Slice Sampling

Winter 2022/23

The seminar took place online Fridays at at 1:15 pm.

DateSpeakerTitle of Presentation
3 FebruaryJoachim GiesenLearning with Expert Advice
6 JanuaryStefan AnkirchnerIntroduction to Multi-Armed Bandits
2 DecemberChristian Höner zu SiederdissenPropositions as Types
25 NovemberOlaf BeyersdorffQBF Solving and Proof Complexity
11 NovemberAlexander BreuerTensors in Torch

Summer 2022

The seminar took place online Fridays at at 1:15 pm.

DateSpeakerTitle of Presentation
24 JuneStefan PerkoTowards diffusion approximations for stochastic gradient descent
without replacement
17 JuneMichael HabeckSlice sampling on the sphere
10 JuneChristian Höner zu SiederdissenIntroduction to Probabilistic Programming
27 MayJoachim GiesenTensor Networks and Graphical Models
11 MayDaniel RudolfSlice sampling

Winter 2021/22

The seminar took place online on Fridays at 2:15 pm.

DateSpeakerTitle of Presentation
28 JanuaryStefan AnkirchnerApproximating Stochastic Gradient Descent with Diffusions
and Optimal Control of Hyperparameter
10 DecemberAlexander BreuerCPU-Native Machine Learning Engines: An Overview
3 DecemberChristian Höner zu SiederdissenGeneralized Dynamic Programming
19 NovemberMichael HabeckMarkov Chain Monte Carlo for Bayesian Inference
5 NovemberSören LaueBackpropagation and Tensor Calculus
22 OctoberTorsten BosseAlgorithmic Differentiation and Message Passing

Summer 2021

The seminar took place online on Fridays at 2:15 pm.

DateSpeakerTitle of Presentation
16 JulyMartin BückerHamiltonian Dynamics
9 JulyChristian Höner zu SiederdissenGeneralized Algebraic Dynamic Programming
2 JulyJoachim GiesenDarwiche’s Inference Compilation Approach for Exact Inference
18 JuneSören LaueIntroduction to Variational Inference
4 JuneOlaf BeyersdorffSAT Solving and Proof Complexity: A Brief Introduction