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Stephan Eckstein

4 accepted papers

2026

Partial Fusion of Neural Networks: Efficient Tradeoffs Between Ensembles and Weight Aggregation

ICML 2026poster

Ensembles of neural networks typically outperform individual networks but incur large computational costs, whereas weight aggregation produces less costly, yet also less accurate, aggregate models. We introduce partial fusion of networks, which interpolates between ensembles and weight aggregation a…

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2026

The Expressive Power of Low Precision Softmax Transformers with (Summarized) Chain-of-Thought

ICML 2026poster

Existing expressivity results for transformers typically rely on hardmax attention, high precision, and other architectural modifications that disconnect them from the models used in practice. We bridge this gap by analyzing standard transformer decoders with softmax attention and rounding of activa…

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2023

Estimating the Rate-Distortion Function by Wasserstein Gradient Descent

NeurIPS 2023poster

In the theory of lossy compression, the rate-distortion (R-D) function $R(D)$ describes how much a data source can be compressed (in bit-rate) at any given level of fidelity (distortion). Obtaining $R(D)$ for a given data source establishes the fundamental performance limit for all compression algor…

2020

MinMax Methods for Optimal Transport and Beyond: Regularization, Approximation and Numerics

NeurIPS 2020poster

We study MinMax solution methods for a general class of optimization problems related to (and including) optimal transport. Theoretically, the focus is on fitting a large class of problems into a single MinMax framework and generalizing regularization techniques known from classical optimal transpor…