Talks

2026

Optimization for Robust ML

Optimization for Robust ML

Dr. Anna Müller — January 20, 2026

CISPA Seminar Room 1

We present new robust optimization techniques for training models under worst-case distribution shifts. The talk covers theory and experiments.


2025

Satellite Vision: Multimodal Fusion

Akansh Maurya — November 5, 2025

MPI Saarbrücken, Room 210

A run-through of recent work on combining Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 modalities using different projection heads and a common classifier.


2024

Efficient Backprop for Large Models

Efficient Backprop for Large Models

Prof. Sanjay Rao — September 12, 2024

Main Auditorium

Techniques to reduce memory and compute during training of transformers while retaining accuracy.