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Michael Spranger

10 accepted papers

2025

Argus: A Compact and Versatile Foundation Model for Vision

CVPR 2025poster

While existing vision and multi-modal foundation models can handle multiple computer vision tasks, they often suffer from significant limitations, including huge demand for data and computational resources during training and inconsistent performance across vision tasks at deployment time. To addres…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

Stretching Each Dollar: Diffusion Training from Scratch on a Micro-Budget

CVPR 2025poster

As scaling laws in generative AI push performance, they simultaneously concentrate the development of these models among actors with large computational resources. With a focus on text-to-image (T2I) generative models, we aim to unlock this bottleneck by demonstrating very low-cost training of large…

2023

MECTA: Memory-Economic Continual Test-Time Model Adaptation

ICLR 2023poster

Continual Test-time Adaptation (CTA) is a promising art to secure accuracy gains in continually-changing environments. The state-of-the-art adaptations improve out-of-distribution model accuracy via computation-efficient online test-time gradient descents but meanwhile cost about times of memory ver…

2023

MocoSFL: enabling cross-client collaborative self-supervised learning

ICLR 2023top-5%

Existing collaborative self-supervised learning (SSL) schemes are not suitable for cross-client applications because of their expensive computation and large local data requirements. To address these issues, we propose MocoSFL, a collaborative SSL framework based on Split Federated Learning (SFL) an…

2022

Outsourcing Training without Uploading Data via Efficient Collaborative Open-Source Sampling

NeurIPS 2022accept

As deep learning blooms with growing demand for computation and data resources, outsourcing model training to a powerful cloud server becomes an attractive alternative to training at a low-power and cost-effective end device. Traditional outsourcing requires uploading device data to the cloud server…

Cited by 9SourcePDFScholar
2020

Assessing SATNet's Ability to Solve the Symbol Grounding Problem

NeurIPS 2020poster

SATNet is an award-winning MAXSAT solver that can be used to infer logical rules and integrated as a differentiable layer in a deep neural network. It had been shown to solve Sudoku puzzles visually from examples of puzzle digit images, and was heralded as an impressive achievement towards the longs…

Cited by 24SourcePDFScholar
2020

Temporal Positive-unlabeled Learning for Biomedical Hypothesis Generation via Risk Estimation

NeurIPS 2020poster

Understanding the relationships between biomedical terms like viruses, drugs, and symptoms is essential in the fight against diseases. Many attempts have been made to introduce the use of machine learning to the scientific process of hypothesis generation (HG), which refers to the discovery of meani…

Cited by 15SourcePDFScholar
2019

Continuous Value Iteration (CVI) Reinforcement Learning and Imaginary Experience Replay (IER) For Learning Multi-Goal, Continuous Action and State Space Controllers

ICRA 2019poster

This paper presents a novel model-free Reinforcement Learning algorithm for learning behavior in continuous action, state, and goal spaces. The algorithm approximates optimal value functions using non-parametric estimators. It is able to efficiently learn to reach multiple arbitrary goals in determi…

Cited by 9SourceScholar
2018

Online Learning of Body Orientation Control on a Humanoid Robot Using Finite Element Goal Babbling

IROS 2018poster

How can high dimensional robots learn general sets of skills from experience in the real world? Many previous approaches focus on maximizing a single utility function and require large datasets of experience to do this, something that is not possible to collect outside of simulation as every data po…

Cited by 5SourceScholar