Max Zimmer

researcher at ZIB since August 2021
doctoral candidate at TUB

📬 Contact

office Room 3024 at ZIB
e-mail zimmer (at) zib.de
homepage maxzimmer.org
languages German, English, and Italian

🎓 Academic Background

Aug 2017 B.Sc. in Mathematics at TUB
M.Sc. at TUB

🔬 Research

I am interested in Deep Learning and (Combinatorial) Optimization. In particular, my recent work is centered around Neural Network pruning, explainability (XAI) and first-order optimization.

Preprints

  1. Mundinger, K., Zimmer, M., and Pokutta, S. (2024). Neural Parameter Regression for Explicit Representations of PDE Solution Operators. [arXiv]
    [BibTeX]
    @misc{NeuralRegressionPDE2024,
      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}
    }
  2. Roux, C., Zimmer, M., and Pokutta, S. (2024). On the Byzantine-resilience of Distillation-based Federated Learning. [arXiv]
    [BibTeX]
    @misc{byzantinefederated2024,
      archiveprefix = {arXiv},
      eprint = {2402.12265},
      primaryclass = {cs.LG},
      year = {2024},
      author = {Roux, Christophe and Zimmer, Max and Pokutta, Sebastian},
      title = {On the Byzantine-resilience of Distillation-based Federated Learning}
    }
  3. Mundinger, K., Pokutta, S., Spiegel, C., and Zimmer, M. (2024). Extending the Continuum of Six-Colorings. [arXiv]
    [BibTeX]
    @misc{mpsz_hadwigernelsonspectrum_24,
      archiveprefix = {arXiv},
      eprint = {2404.05509},
      year = {2024},
      author = {Mundinger, Konrad and Pokutta, Sebastian and Spiegel, Christoph and Zimmer, Max},
      title = {Extending the Continuum of Six-Colorings}
    }
  4. 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{zasp_perp_23,
      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}
    }
  5. Zimmer, M., Spiegel, C., and Pokutta, S. (2022). Compression-aware Training of Neural Networks Using Frank-Wolfe. [arXiv]
    [BibTeX]
    @misc{zsp_deepsparsefw_22,
      archiveprefix = {arXiv},
      eprint = {2205.11921},
      primaryclass = {cs.LG},
      year = {2022},
      author = {Zimmer, Max and Spiegel, Christoph and Pokutta, Sebastian},
      title = {Compression-aware Training of Neural Networks Using Frank-Wolfe}
    }
  6. Pokutta, S., Spiegel, C., and Zimmer, M. (2020). Deep Neural Network Training with Frank-Wolfe. [arXiv] [summary] [code]
    [BibTeX]
    @misc{zsp_deepfw_20,
      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}
    }

Conference proceedings

  1. Wäldchen, S., Sharma, K., Zimmer, M., Turan, B., and Pokutta, S. (2024). Merlin-Arthur Classifiers: Formal Interpretability with Interactive Black Boxes. Proceedings of International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics. [arXiv]
    [BibTeX]
    @inproceedings{wszp_merlinarthur_22,
      year = {2024},
      booktitle = {Proceedings of International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics},
      archiveprefix = {arXiv},
      eprint = {2206.00759},
      primaryclass = {cs.LG},
      author = {Wäldchen, Stephan and Sharma, Kartikey and Zimmer, Max and Turan, Berkant and Pokutta, Sebastian},
      title = {Merlin-Arthur Classifiers: Formal Interpretability with Interactive Black Boxes}
    }
  2. Zimmer, M., Spiegel, C., and Pokutta, S. (2024). Sparse Model Soups: A Recipe for Improved Pruning Via Model Averaging. Proceedings of International Conference on Learning Representations. [arXiv]
    [BibTeX]
    @inproceedings{zsp_modelsoup_23,
      year = {2024},
      booktitle = {Proceedings of International Conference on Learning Representations},
      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}
    }
  3. Zimmer, M., Spiegel, C., and Pokutta, S. (2023). How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Retraining. Proceedings of International Conference on Learning Representations. [arXiv] [code]
    [BibTeX]
    @inproceedings{zsp_retrain_21,
      year = {2023},
      booktitle = {Proceedings of International Conference on Learning Representations},
      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}
    }
  4. 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 EURO Working Group on Transportation Meeting.
    [BibTeX]
    @inproceedings{zskzns_flows_21:1,
      year = {2020},
      booktitle = {Proceedings of 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. 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{zskzns_flows_21,
      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}
    }

💬 Talks and posters

Poster presentations

May 2023
11th ICLR Conference, Kigali