Max Zimmer

Preprints

1. Mundinger, K., Zimmer, M., and Pokutta, S. (2024). Neural Parameter Regression for Explicit Representations of PDE Solution Operators. [arXiv]
   [BibTeX]

   @misc{2024_MundingerZimmerPokutta_Neuralparameterregression,
     archiveprefix = {arXiv},
     eprint = {2403.12764},
     primaryclass = {cs.LG},
     year = {2024},
     author = {Mundinger, Konrad and Zimmer, Max and Pokutta, Sebastian},
     title = {Neural Parameter Regression for Explicit Representations of PDE Solution Operators},
     date = {2024-03-19}
   }

2. Zimmer, M., Andoni, M., Spiegel, C., and Pokutta, S. (2023). PERP: Rethinking the Prune-Retrain Paradigm in the Era of LLMs. [arXiv] [code]
   [BibTeX]

   @misc{2023_ZimmerAndoniSpiegelPokutta_PerpPruneRetrain,
     archiveprefix = {arXiv},
     eprint = {2312.15230},
     primaryclass = {cs.LG},
     year = {2023},
     author = {Zimmer, Max and Andoni, Megi and Spiegel, Christoph and Pokutta, Sebastian},
     title = {PERP: Rethinking the Prune-Retrain Paradigm in the Era of LLMs},
     code = {https://github.com/ZIB-IOL/PERP},
     date = {2023-12-23}
   }

3. Pokutta, S., Spiegel, C., and Zimmer, M. (2020). Deep Neural Network Training with Frank-Wolfe. [arXiv] [summary] [code]
   [BibTeX]

   @misc{2020_PokuttaSpiegelZimmer_Frankwolfeneuralnetworks,
     archiveprefix = {arXiv},
     eprint = {2010.07243},
     primaryclass = {cs.LG},
     year = {2020},
     author = {Pokutta, Sebastian and Spiegel, Christoph and Zimmer, Max},
     title = {Deep Neural Network Training with Frank-Wolfe},
     code = {https://github.com/ZIB-IOL/StochasticFrankWolfe},
     summary = {https://pokutta.com/blog/research/2020/11/11/NNFW.html},
     date = {2020-10-14}
   }

Conference proceedings

1. Roux, C., Zimmer, M., and Pokutta, S. (2025). On the Byzantine-resilience of Distillation-based Federated Learning. Proceedings of the International Conference on Learning Representations. [arXiv]
   [BibTeX]

   @inproceedings{2024_RouxZimmerPokutta_Byzantineresilience,
     year = {2025},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on Learning Representations},
     archiveprefix = {arXiv},
     eprint = {2402.12265},
     primaryclass = {cs.LG},
     author = {Roux, Christophe and Zimmer, Max and Pokutta, Sebastian},
     title = {On the Byzantine-resilience of Distillation-based Federated Learning}
   }

2. Fayad, I., Zimmer, M., Schwartz, M., Ciais, P., Gieseke, F., Belouze, G., Brood, S., De Truchis, A., and d’Aspremont, A. (2025, February 24). DUNIA: Pixel-Sized Embeddings Via Cross-Modal Alignment for Earth Observation Applications. Proceedings of the International Conference on Machine Learning. [arXiv]
   [BibTeX]

   @inproceedings{2025_IbrahimEtAl_DuniaCrossmodalalignment,
     year = {2025},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on Machine Learning},
     archiveprefix = {arXiv},
     eprint = {2502.17066},
     primaryclass = {cs.CV},
     author = {Fayad, Ibrahim and Zimmer, Max and Schwartz, Martin and Ciais, Philippe and Gieseke, Fabian and Belouze, Gabriel and Brood, Sarah and De Truchis, Aurelien and d'Aspremont, Alexandre},
     title = {DUNIA: Pixel-Sized Embeddings Via Cross-Modal Alignment for Earth Observation Applications},
     date = {2025-02-24}
   }

3. Pauls, J., Zimmer, M., Turan, B., Saatchi, S., Ciais, P., Pokutta, S., and Gieseke, F. (2025, January 31). Capturing Temporal Dynamics in Large-Scale Canopy Tree Height Estimation. Proceedings of the International Conference on Machine Learning. [arXiv]
   [BibTeX]

   @inproceedings{2025_JanEtAl_Temporalcanopyheight,
     year = {2025},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on Machine Learning},
     archiveprefix = {arXiv},
     eprint = {2501.19328},
     primaryclass = {cs.LG},
     author = {Pauls, Jan and Zimmer, Max and Turan, Berkant and Saatchi, Sassan and Ciais, Philippe and Pokutta, Sebastian and Gieseke, Fabian},
     title = {Capturing Temporal Dynamics in Large-Scale Canopy Tree Height Estimation},
     date = {2025-01-31}
   }

4. Lasby, M., Zimmer, M., Pokutta, S., and Schultheis, E. (2025). Compressed Sparse Tiles for Memory-efficient Unstructured and Semi-structured Sparsity. Proceedings of the ICLR Workshop on Sparsity in LLMs.
   [BibTeX]

   @inproceedings{2025_LasbyZimmerPokuttaSchultheis_SparseTiles,
     year = {2025},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the ICLR Workshop on Sparsity in LLMs},
     author = {Lasby, Mike and Zimmer, Max and Pokutta, Sebastian and Schultheis, Erik},
     title = {Compressed Sparse Tiles for Memory-efficient Unstructured and Semi-structured Sparsity}
   }

5. Mundinger, K., Zimmer, M., Kiem, A., Spiegel, C., and Pokutta, S. (2025, January 30). Neural Discovery in Mathematics: Do Machines Dream of Colored Planes? Proceedings of the International Conference on Machine Learning. [arXiv]
   [BibTeX]

   @inproceedings{2025_MundingerZimmerKiemSpiegelPokutta_NeuralDiscovery,
     year = {2025},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on Machine Learning},
     archiveprefix = {arXiv},
     eprint = {2501.18527},
     primaryclass = {cs.LG},
     author = {Mundinger, Konrad and Zimmer, Max and Kiem, Aldo and Spiegel, Christoph and Pokutta, Sebastian},
     title = {Neural Discovery in Mathematics: Do Machines Dream of Colored Planes?},
     date = {2025-01-30}
   }

6. Pelleriti, N., Zimmer, M., Wirth, E., and Pokutta, S. (2025, February 20). Approximating Latent Manifolds in Neural Networks Via Vanishing Ideals. Proceedings of the International Conference on Machine Learning. [arXiv]
   [BibTeX]

   @inproceedings{2025_PelleritiZimmerWirthPokutta_Latentmanifolds,
     year = {2025},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on Machine Learning},
     archiveprefix = {arXiv},
     eprint = {2502.15051},
     primaryclass = {cs.LG},
     author = {Pelleriti, Nico and Zimmer, Max and Wirth, Elias and Pokutta, Sebastian},
     title = {Approximating Latent Manifolds in Neural Networks Via Vanishing Ideals},
     date = {2025-02-20}
   }

7. Wäldchen, S., Sharma, K., Turan, B., Zimmer, M., and Pokutta, S. (2024). Interpretability Guarantees with Merlin-Arthur Classifiers. Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics. [arXiv]
   [BibTeX]

   @inproceedings{2022_WaeldchenEtAl_Interpretabilityguarantees,
     year = {2024},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics},
     archiveprefix = {arXiv},
     eprint = {2206.00759},
     primaryclass = {cs.LG},
     author = {Wäldchen, Stephan and Sharma, Kartikey and Turan, Berkant and Zimmer, Max and Pokutta, Sebastian},
     title = {Interpretability Guarantees with Merlin-Arthur Classifiers}
   }

8. Zimmer, M., Spiegel, C., and Pokutta, S. (2024). Sparse Model Soups: A Recipe for Improved Pruning Via Model Averaging. Proceedings of the International Conference on Learning Representations. [URL] [arXiv]
   [BibTeX]

   @inproceedings{2023_ZimmerSpiegelPokutta_Sparsemodelsoups,
     year = {2024},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on Learning Representations},
     url = {https://iclr.cc/virtual/2024/poster/17433},
     archiveprefix = {arXiv},
     eprint = {2306.16788},
     primaryclass = {cs.LG},
     author = {Zimmer, Max and Spiegel, Christoph and Pokutta, Sebastian},
     title = {Sparse Model Soups: A Recipe for Improved Pruning Via Model Averaging}
   }

9. Mundinger, K., Pokutta, S., Spiegel, C., and Zimmer, M. (2024, April 8). Extending the Continuum of Six-Colorings. Proceedings of the Discrete Mathematics Days. [URL] [arXiv]
   [BibTeX]

   @inproceedings{2024_MundingerPokuttaSpiegelZimmer_SixcoloringsExpansion:1,
     year = {2024},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the Discrete Mathematics Days},
     url = {https://dmd2024.web.uah.es/files/abstracts/paper_27.pdf},
     archiveprefix = {arXiv},
     eprint = {2404.05509},
     primaryclass = {math.CO},
     author = {Mundinger, Konrad and Pokutta, Sebastian and Spiegel, Christoph and Zimmer, Max},
     title = {Extending the Continuum of Six-Colorings},
     date = {2024-04-08}
   }

10. Pauls, J., Zimmer, M., Kelly, U. M., Schwartz, M., Saatchi, S., Ciais, P., Pokutta, S., Brandt, M., and Gieseke, F. (2024, June 3). Estimating Canopy Height at Scale. Proceedings of the International Conference on Machine Learning. [arXiv] [code]
    [BibTeX]

    @inproceedings{2024_PaulsEtAl_Canopyheightestimation,
      year = {2024},
      booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on Machine Learning},
      archiveprefix = {arXiv},
      eprint = {2406.01076},
      primaryclass = {cs.CV},
      author = {Pauls, Jan and Zimmer, Max and Kelly, Una M and Schwartz, Martin and Saatchi, Sassan and Ciais, Philippe and Pokutta, Sebastian and Brandt, Martin and Gieseke, Fabian},
      title = {Estimating Canopy Height at Scale},
      code = {https://github.com/AI4Forest/Global-Canopy-Height-Map},
      date = {2024-06-03}
    }

11. Zimmer, M., Spiegel, C., and Pokutta, S. (2023). How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Retraining. Proceedings of the International Conference on Learning Representations. [URL] [arXiv] [code]
    [BibTeX]

    @inproceedings{2021_ZimmerSpiegelPokutta_Retrainingpruning,
      year = {2023},
      booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on Learning Representations},
      url = {https://iclr.cc/virtual/2023/poster/10914},
      archiveprefix = {arXiv},
      eprint = {2111.00843},
      primaryclass = {cs.LG},
      author = {Zimmer, Max and Spiegel, Christoph and Pokutta, Sebastian},
      title = {How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Retraining},
      code = {https://github.com/ZIB-IOL/BIMP}
    }

12. Ziemke, T., Sering, L., Vargas Koch, L., Zimmer, M., Nagel, K., and Skutella, M. (2020). Flows Over Time As Continuous Limits of Packet-based Network Simulations. Proceedings of the EURO Working Group on Transportation Meeting.
    [BibTeX]

    @inproceedings{2021_ZiemkeEtAl_Flowscontinuouslimits:1,
      year = {2020},
      booktitle = {Proceedings of the EURO Working Group on Transportation Meeting},
      author = {Ziemke, Theresa and Sering, Leon and Vargas Koch, Laura and Zimmer, Max and Nagel, Kai and Skutella, Martin},
      title = {Flows Over Time As Continuous Limits of Packet-based Network Simulations}
    }

Full articles

1. Zimmer, M., Spiegel, C., and Pokutta, S. (2025). Compression-aware Training of Neural Networks Using Frank-Wolfe. Mathematical Optimization for Machine Learning, 137–168. DOI: 10.1515/9783111376776-010 [arXiv]
   [BibTeX]

   @article{2022_ZimmerSpiegelPokutta_Compressionawaretraining,
     year = {2025},
     journal = {Mathematical Optimization for Machine Learning},
     date = {2025-04-22},
     month = apr,
     pages = {137-168},
     doi = {10.1515/9783111376776-010},
     archiveprefix = {arXiv},
     eprint = {2205.11921},
     primaryclass = {cs.LG},
     author = {Zimmer, Max and Spiegel, Christoph and Pokutta, Sebastian},
     title = {Compression-aware Training of Neural Networks Using Frank-Wolfe}
   }

2. Mundinger, K., Pokutta, S., Spiegel, C., and Zimmer, M. (2024). Extending the Continuum of Six-Colorings. Geombinatorics Quarterly, XXXIV. [URL] [arXiv]
   [BibTeX]

   @article{2024_MundingerPokuttaSpiegelZimmer_SixcoloringsExpansion,
     year = {2024},
     journal = {Geombinatorics Quarterly},
     date = {2024-07-01},
     volume = {XXXIV},
     url = {https://geombina.uccs.edu/past-issues/volume-xxxiv},
     archiveprefix = {arXiv},
     eprint = {2404.05509},
     primaryclass = {math.CO},
     author = {Mundinger, Konrad and Pokutta, Sebastian and Spiegel, Christoph and Zimmer, Max},
     title = {Extending the Continuum of Six-Colorings}
   }

3. Ziemke, T., Sering, L., Vargas Koch, L., Zimmer, M., Nagel, K., and Skutella, M. (2021). Flows Over Time As Continuous Limits of Packet-based Network Simulations. Transportation Research Procedia, 52, 123–130. DOI: 10.1016/j.trpro.2021.01.014 [URL]
   [BibTeX]

   @article{2021_ZiemkeEtAl_Flowscontinuouslimits,
     year = {2021},
     journal = {Transportation Research Procedia},
     volume = {52},
     pages = {123-130},
     doi = {10.1016/j.trpro.2021.01.014},
     url = {https://sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352146521000284},
     author = {Ziemke, Theresa and Sering, Leon and Vargas Koch, Laura and Zimmer, Max and Nagel, Kai and Skutella, Martin},
     title = {Flows Over Time As Continuous Limits of Packet-based Network Simulations}
   }