ISTA

Machine Learning and
Computer Vision Group



Christoph Lampert PI: Christoph H. Lampert (he/him)
Professor
ISTA (Institute of Science and Technology Austria)
Coordinates Address: Am Campus 1, ISTA, 3400 Klosterneuburg, Austria
Email: chl (at) ist (dot) ac (dot) at
Phone: +43 2243 9000 3101 (but sending me email usually works better)

Biographical sketch
Curriculum vitae
Group News
Highlights 01/2024 A paper accepted to ICLR. Congratulations Jonny and Hossein!
10/2023 A paper accepted to TMLR. Congratulations Jonny and Michelle!
06/2023 Our alumnus Alexander Kolesnikov received the ISTA Alumni Award. Congratulation, Alex!
04/2023 A paper accepted to CVPR. Congratulations Alex!
01/2023 A paper accepted to ICLR. Congratulations Alex!
09/2022 ISTA was hacked! Expect some IT-related hiccups over the next few weeks months years.
08/2022 A paper accepted to TMLR. Congratulations Jen and Niko!
07/2022 A paper accepted to ECCV. Congratulations Bernd!
04/2022 A paper accepted to JMLR. Congratulations Niko!
12/2019 ISTA has been approved as ELLIS unit.
09/2019 Asya Pentina (PhD 2016) received an ELLIS Ph.D. award for "outstanding research achievements during the dissertation phase in artificial intelligence and machine learning". Congratulations!
Recent Publications and Preprints Recently on arXiv: Hossein Zakerinia, Amin Behjati, Christoph H. Lampert. "More Flexible PAC-Bayesian Meta-Learning by Learning Learning Algorithms". arXiv:2402.04054
Recently on arXiv: Paniz Halvachi, Alexandra Peste, Dan Alistarh, Christoph H. Lampert. "ELSA: Partial Weight Freezing for Overhead-Free Sparse Network Deployment". arXiv:2312.06872
Recently on arXiv: Bernd Prach, Fabio Brau, Giorgio Buttazzo, Christoph H. Lampert."1-Lipschitz Layers Compared: Memory, Speed, and Certifiable Robustness". arXiv:2311.16833
Recently on arXiv: Eli Verwimp, Rahaf Aljundi, Shai Ben-David, Matthias Bethge, Andrea Cossu, Alexander Gepperth, Tyler L. Hayes, Eyke Hüllermeier, Christopher Kanan, Dhireesha Kudithipudi, Christoph H. Lampert, Martin Mundt, Razvan Pascanu, Adrian Popescu, Andreas S. Tolias, Joost van de Weijer, Bing Liu, Vincenzo Lomonaco, Tinne Tuytelaars, Gido M. van de Ven."Continual Learning: Applications and the Road Forward". arXiv:2311.11908
Recently on arXiv: Bernd Prach, Fabio Brau, Giorgio Buttazzo, Christoph H. Lampert."1-Lipschitz Neural Networks are more expressive with N-Activations". arXiv:2311.06103
Recently on arXiv: Denis Kuznedelev, Eldar Kurtic, Eugenia Iofinova, Elias Frantar, Alexandra Peste, Dan Alistarh. "Accurate Neural Network Pruning Requires Rethinking Sparse Optimization". arXiv:2308.02060
Recently on arXiv: Peter Súkeník, Christoph H. Lampert. "Generalization In Multi-Objective Machine Learning". arXiv:2208.13499 [cs.LG]

05/2024 ICLR 2024.  Jonathan Scott, Hossein Zakerinia, Christoph H. Lampert.   "PeFLL: A Lifelong Learning Approach to Personalized Federated Learning"
12/2023 NeurIPS 2023.  Peter Súkeník, Marco Mondelli, Christoph H. Lampert.   "Deep Neural Collapse Is Provably Optimal for the Deep Unconstrained Features Model"
12/2023 NeurIPS 2023.  Mher Safaryan, Alexandra Peste, Dan Alistarh.  "Knowledge Distillation Performs Partial Variance Reduction"
11/2023 TMLR.  Jonathan Scott, Michelle Yeo, Christoph H. Lampert.   "Cross-client Label Propagation for Transductive Federated Learning "
06/2023 CVPR 2023.  Eugenia Iofinova, Alexandra Peste, Dan Alistarh.   "Bias in Pruned Vision Models: In-Depth Analysis and Countermeasures"
05/2023 ICLR 2023.  Alexandra Peste, Adrian Vladu, Christoph H. Lampert, Dan Alistarh.   "CrAM: A Compression-Aware Minimizer"
10/2022 ECCV 2022.  Bernd Prach, Christoph H. Lampert.   "Almost-Orthogonal Layers for Efficient General-Purpose Lipschitz Networks"
09/2022 TMLR.  Eugenia Iofinova*, Nikola Konstantinov*, Christoph H. Lampert.  "FLEA: Provably Robust Fair Multisource Learning from Unreliable Training Data"
08/2022 ICPR 2022.  Paulina Tomaszewska, Christoph H. Lampert.   "Lightweight Conditional Model Extrapolation for Streaming Data under Class-Prior Shift"
07/2022 JMLR.  Nikola Konstantinov, Christoph H. Lampert.   "Fairness-Aware PAC Learning from Corrupted Data"
Team News 09/2023 Hossein passed his Qualifying Exam. Congratulations!
07/2023 Egor Zverev and Nikita Kalinin joined our group. Welcome!
04/2023 Alex Peste defended her PhD thesis "Robustness and Fairness in Machine Learning Learning". Congratulations, Dr Peste!
03/2023 Peter passed his Qualifying Exam. Congratulations!
02/2022 Niko Konstantinov defended his PhD thesis "Robustness and Fairness in Machine Learning Learning". Congratulations, Dr Konstantinov!
01/2022 Jonny passed his Qualifying Exam. Congratulations!
05/2021 Mary Phuong defended her PhD thesis "Underspecification in Deep Learning". Congratulations, Dr Phuong!
05/2021 Jonny Scott affiliated with our group. Welcome, Jonny!
03/2021 Bernd passed his Qualifying Exam. Congratulations!
08/2020 Amelie Royer defended her PhD thesis "Leveraging structure in Computer Vision tasks for flexible Deep Learning models". Congratulations, Dr Royer!
07/2020 Bernd Prach affiliated with our group. Welcome, Bernd!
01/2020 Alex Peste passed her Qualifying Exam. Congratulations!
09/2018 Alex Zimin defended his PhD thesis "Learning from dependent data". Congratulations, Dr Zimin!
02/2018 Alex Kolesnikov defended his PhD thesis "Weakly-Supervised Segmentation and Unsupervised Modeling of Natural Images". Congratulations, Dr Kolesnikov!
Recent and Upcoming Activities (see CV for a more complete list)
Workshops, Books and Edited Volumes Edited Book: Wie Maschinen Lernen, Springer 2019 (with Kristian Kersting and Constantin Rothkopf)
Workshop: Continuous and Open-Set Learning at CVPR 2017 (with E. Rodner, A. Freytag, T. Boult, J. Denzler)
Edited Volume: Visual Attributes, Springer 2017 (with Rogerio S. Feris and Devi Parikh)
Edited Volume: Advanced Structured Prediction, MIT Press 2015 (with S. Nowozin, P. V. Gehler and J. Jancsary)
Chair Positions and Memberships ELLIS Fellow and Unit Director
Action Editor for Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR)
(until 2023) Editor for International Journal for Computer Vision (IJCV)
(until 2022) Associate Editor in Chief for IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI)
External Talks 21 Sep 2020: Federated Learning -- All for One and One for All, Invited talk at GCPR 2023, Heidelberg, Germany
12 Jun 2023: Robust Learning from Multiple Sources, ISOR Seminar, University of Viena
05 Jun 2023: Trustworthy Machine Learning: The Quest for Robustness, Austrian Computer Science Day, TU Graz, Austria
27 Oct 2022: Robust and Fair Multi-Source Learning, The Mathematics of Machine Learning Workshop, BCAM Bilbao
17 August 2022: "Behind the Scenes: How Does One Become a (Machine Learning) Researcher and What Does It Mean To Be One?"    Estonian Summer School on Computer and Systems Science, Tartu, EE.    
14 Apr 2022: Robust Learning from Multiple Sources, Mathematical Machine Learning Seminar MPI Mis + UCLA
External Teaching 16/17 August 2022: Estonian Summer School on Computer and Systems Science, Tartu, EE. "Robust and Fair Machine Learning"    part 1 (PDF)     part 2 (PDF)    
Teaching and other presentations
at ISTA
10/2022 "Modern Machine Learning" (coming up)
09/2021 Intro to the "Machine Learning and Computer Vision" research group
09/2021 "Intro to DSSC Track for Graduate Students"
07/2021 "Intro to DSSC Track for ISTerns"
Q4(moved!) 2020/21: "Concentration of Measure" (advanced course, with Jan Maas)
Q3(moved!) 2020/21: "Probabilistic Graphical Models" (advanced course, with Paul Henderson)
Q1 2020/21: "Statistical Machine Learning" (advanced course)
Q3 2019/20: "Formal Methods for Learned Systems" (seminar)

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