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Damian Borth

12 accepted papers

2026

Aligning Datasets and Models for Weight Space Learning

ICML 2026poster

Weight space learning aims to learn representations of neural network (NN) weights, enabling different downstream tasks. Existing approaches show promising performance, but lacking a way to shape these weight-space representations using information about the datasets the models were trained on, thus…

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2026

GeoSANE: Learning Geospatial Representations from Models, Not Data

CVPR 2026

Recent advances in remote sensing have led to an increase in the number of available foundation models; each trained on different modalities, datasets, and objectives, yet capturing only part of the vast geospatial knowledge landscape. While these models show strong results within their respective d

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2025

Drag-and-Drop LLMs: Zero-Shot Prompt-to-Weights

NeurIPS 2025poster

Modern Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT) methods such as low-rank adaptation (LoRA) reduce the cost of customizing large language models (LLMs), yet still require a separate optimization run for every downstream dataset. We introduce \textbf{Drag-and-Drop LLMs (\textit{DnD})}, a prompt-conditio…

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2025

Know Your Attention Maps: Class-specific Token Masking for Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation

ICCV 2025poster

Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation (WSSS) is a challenging problem that has been extensively studied in recent years. Traditional approaches often rely on external modules like Class Activation Maps to highlight regions of interest and generate pseudo segmentation masks. In this work, we propos…

2024

Parameter Efficient Self-Supervised Geospatial Domain Adaptation

CVPR 2024poster

As large-scale foundation models become publicly available for different domains efficiently adapting them to individual downstream applications and additional data modalities has turned into a central challenge. For example foundation models for geospatial and satellite remote sensing applications…

2024

Towards Scalable and Versatile Weight Space Learning

ICML 2024poster

Learning representations of well-trained neural network models holds the promise to provide an understanding of the inner workings of those models. However, previous work has either faced limitations when processing larger networks or was task-specific to either discriminative or generative tasks. T…

2023

Fine-Grained Emotional Control of Text-to-Speech: Learning to Rank Inter- and Intra-Class Emotion Intensities

ICASSP 2023accepted

State-of-the-art Text-To-Speech (TTS) models are capable of producing high-quality speech. The generated speech, however, is usually neutral in emotional expression, whereas very often one would want fine-grained emotional control of words or phonemes. Although still challenging, the first TTS model…

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2022

Hyper-Representations as Generative Models: Sampling Unseen Neural Network Weights

NeurIPS 2022accept

Learning representations of neural network weights given a model zoo is an emerg- ing and challenging area with many potential applications from model inspection, to neural architecture search or knowledge distillation. Recently, an autoencoder trained on a model zoo was able to learn a hyper-repres…

2022

Model Zoos: A Dataset of Diverse Populations of Neural Network Models

NeurIPS 2022accept

In the last years, neural networks (NN) have evolved from laboratory environments to the state-of-the-art for many real-world problems. It was shown that NN models (i.e., their weights and biases) evolve on unique trajectories in weight space during training. Following, a population of such neural n…

2021

Learning Interpretable Concept Groups in CNNs

IJCAI 2021poster

We propose a novel training methodology---Concept Group Learning (CGL)---that encourages training of interpretable CNN filters by partitioning filters in each layer into \emph{concept groups}, each of which is trained to learn a single visual concept. We achieve this through a novel regularization s…

2021

Self-Supervised Representation Learning on Neural Network Weights for Model Characteristic Prediction

NeurIPS 2021poster

Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) has been shown to learn useful and information-preserving representations. Neural Networks (NNs) are widely applied, yet their weight space is still not fully understood. Therefore, we propose to use SSL to learn hyper-representations of the weights of populations of N…

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2018

What Do Deep Networks Like to See?

CVPR 2018poster

We propose a novel way to measure and understand convolutional neural networks by quantifying the amount of input signal they let in. To do this, an autoencoder (AE) was fine-tuned on gradients from a pre-trained classifier with fixed parameters. We compared the reconstructed samples from AEs that w…