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Jörg K.H. Franke

7 accepted papers

2025

Beyond Random Augmentations: Pretraining with Hard Views

ICLR 2025poster

Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) methods typically rely on random image augmentations, or views, to make models invariant to different transformations. We hypothesize that the efficacy of pretraining pipelines based on conventional random view sampling can be enhanced by explicitly selecting views tha…

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2025

KinPFN: Bayesian Approximation of RNA Folding Kinetics using Prior-Data Fitted Networks

ICLR 2025poster

RNA is a dynamic biomolecule crucial for cellular regulation, with its function largely determined by its folding into complex structures, while misfolding can lead to multifaceted biological sequelae. During the folding process, RNA traverses through a series of intermediate structural states, with…

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2025

Learning in Compact Spaces with Approximately Normalized Transformer

NeurIPS 2025poster

The successful training of deep neural networks requires addressing challenges such as overfitting, numerical instabilities leading to divergence, and increasing variance in the residual stream. A common solution is to apply regularization and normalization techniques that usually require tuning add…

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2025

Unlocking State-Tracking in Linear RNNs Through Negative Eigenvalues

ICLR 2025oral

Linear Recurrent Neural Networks (LRNNs) such as Mamba, RWKV, GLA, mLSTM, and DeltaNet have emerged as efficient alternatives to Transformers for long sequences. However, both Transformers and LRNNs struggle to perform state-tracking, which may impair performance in tasks such as code evaluation. In…

2024

HW-GPT-Bench: Hardware-Aware Architecture Benchmark for Language Models

NeurIPS 2024poster

The increasing size of language models necessitates a thorough analysis across multiple dimensions to assess trade-offs among crucial hardware metrics such as latency, energy consumption, GPU memory usage, and performance. Identifying optimal model configurations under specific hardware constraints…

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2024

Improving Deep Learning Optimization through Constrained Parameter Regularization

NeurIPS 2024poster

Regularization is a critical component in deep learning. The most commonly used approach, weight decay, applies a constant penalty coefficient uniformly across all parameters. This may be overly restrictive for some parameters, while insufficient for others. To address this, we present Constrained P…

2021

Sample-Efficient Automated Deep Reinforcement Learning

ICLR 2021poster

Despite significant progress in challenging problems across various domains, applying state-of-the-art deep reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms remains challenging due to their sensitivity to the choice of hyperparameters. This sensitivity can partly be attributed to the non-stationarity of the R…