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Lampert Group

Machine Learning and Computer Vision

Today’s computer programs are “idiots savant”: software that is extremely good at a certain task, such as playing chess, is completely useless for most other tasks like searching a database, and vice versa. The Lampert group works on methods for computers to break out of this limitation by sharing information between different tasks.

Modern computer software adapts to its users, e.g. voice recognition software learns to understand its speaker better over time, and email programs learn which of all incoming emails are spam and should therefore be suppressed. However, this learning process happens independently for each task that the computer is meant to solve. The Lampert group develops and analyzes algorithms that allow computers to learn new tasks while making use of the knowledge acquired from previous tasks. A particular application area is automatic image understanding, whereby the goal of the software is to analyze the contents of a natural image and automatically answer questions such as: What objects are visible in the image? Where are they located? How do they interact?




Team


Current Projects

Trustworthy machine learning | Transfer and lifelong learning | Theory of deep learning


Publications

Súkeník P, Mondelli M, Lampert C. Deep neural collapse is provably optimal for the deep unconstrained features model. 37th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems. NeurIPS: Neural Information Processing Systems, NeurIPS, . View

Henderson PM, Ghazaryan A, Zibrov AA, Young AF, Serbyn M. 2023. Deep learning extraction of band structure parameters from density of states: A case study on trilayer graphene. Physical Review B. 108(12), 125411. View

Iofinova EB, Peste E-A, Alistarh D-A. 2023. Bias in pruned vision models: In-depth analysis and countermeasures. 2023 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. CVPR: Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 24364–24373. View

Tomaszewska P, Lampert C. 2023. On the implementation of baselines and lightweight conditional model extrapolation (LIMES) under class-prior shift. International Workshop on Reproducible Research in Pattern Recognition. RRPR: Reproducible Research in Pattern Recognition, LNCS, vol. 14068, 67–73. View

Jakubík J, Phuong M, Chvosteková M, Krakovská A. 2023. Against the flow of time with multi-output models. Measurement Science Review. 23(4), 175–183. View

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ReX-Link: Christoph Lampert


Career

Since 2015 Professor, Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA)
2010 – 2015 Assistant Professor, Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA)
2007 – 2010 Senior Research Scientist, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany
2004 – 2007 Senior Researcher, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Kaiserslautern, Germany
2003 PhD, University of Bonn, Germany


Selected Distinctions

Since 2015 Associate Editor in Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (T-PAMI)
2012 ERC Starting Grant (consolidator phase)
2008 Best Paper Award, IEEE Conference for Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
2008 Best Student Paper Award, European Conference for Computer Vision (ECCV)
2008 Main Prize, German Society for Pattern Recognition (DAGM)


Additional Information

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