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?
Group Leader
Administrative Support
Team
Current Projects
Trustworthy machine learning | Transfer and lifelong learning | Theory of deep learning
Publications
Zakerinia H, Behjati A, Lampert C. 2024. More flexible PAC-Bayesian meta-learning by learning learning algorithms. Proceedings of the 41st International Conference on Machine Learning. ICML: International Conference on Machine Learning, PMLR, vol. 235, 58122–58139. View
Scott JA, Cahill Á. 2024. Improved modelling of federated datasets using mixtures-of-Dirichlet-multinomials. Proceedings of the 41st International Conference on Machine Learning. ICML: International Conference on Machine Learning, PMLR, vol. 235, 44012–44037. View
Prach B, Brau F, Buttazzo G, Lampert C. 2024. 1-Lipschitz layers compared: Memory, speed, and certifiable robustness. Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. CVPR: Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 24574–24583. View
Zakerinia H, Talaei S, Nadiradze G, Alistarh D-A. 2024. Communication-efficient federated learning with data and client heterogeneity. Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics. AISTATS: Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, PMLR, vol. 238, 3448–3456. View
Scott JA, Zakerinia H, Lampert C. 2024. PEFLL: Personalized federated learning by learning to learn. 12th International Conference on Learning Representations. ICLR: International Conference on Learning Representations. View
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)
