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Chris Kolb

4 accepted papers

2025

Deep Weight Factorization: Sparse Learning Through the Lens of Artificial Symmetries

ICLR 2025poster

Sparse regularization techniques are well-established in machine learning, yet their application in neural networks remains challenging due to the non-differentiability of penalties like the $L_1$ norm, which is incompatible with stochastic gradient descent. A promising alternative is shallow weight…

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2025

Differentiable Sparsity via $D$-Gating: Simple and Versatile Structured Penalization

NeurIPS 2025spotlight

Structured sparsity regularization offers a principled way to compact neural networks, but its non-differentiability breaks compatibility with conventional stochastic gradient descent and requires either specialized optimizers or additional post-hoc pruning without formal guarantees. In this work, w…

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2024

Generalizing Orthogonalization for Models with Non-Linearities

ICML 2024poster

The complexity of black-box algorithms can lead to various challenges, including the introduction of biases. These biases present immediate risks in the algorithms’ application. It was, for instance, shown that neural networks can deduce racial information solely from a patient's X-ray scan, a task…

2024

How Inverse Conditional Flows Can Serve as a Substitute for Distributional Regression

UAI 2024poster

Neural network representations of simple models, such as linear regression, are being studied increasingly to better understand the underlying principles of deep learning algorithms. However, neural representations of distributional regression models, such as the Cox model, have received little atte…

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