Shpresim Sadiku

I am interested in the theory and applications of 2D Computer Vision and Optimization. Currently, I am using first-order optimization methods to generate sparse adversarial attacks of high visual quality.

๐Ÿ“ฌ Contact

office
Room 3027 at ZIB
e-mail
homepage
shpresimsadiku.com
languages
Albanian, English, German, and Serbian

๐ŸŽ“ Curriculum vitae

since 2020
Researcher at ZIB
since 2020
Member of BMS
May 2020
M.Sc. in Mathematics in Data Science at Technical University of Munich
Jul 2017
B.Sc. in Mathematics at University of Tirana

๐Ÿ“ Publications and preprints

Preprints

  1. Sadiku, S., Wagner, M., Nagarajan, S. G., and Pokutta, S. (2024). S-CFE: Simple Counterfactual Explanations. [arXiv]
    [BibTeX]
    @misc{2024_SadikuEtAl_Counterfactualexplanations,
      archiveprefix = {arXiv},
      eprint = {2410.15723},
      primaryclass = {cs.LG},
      year = {2024},
      author = {Sadiku, Shpresim and Wagner, Moritz and Nagarajan, Sai Ganesh and Pokutta, Sebastian},
      title = {S-CFE: Simple Counterfactual Explanations}
    }
  2. Sadiku, S., Wagner, M., and Pokutta, S. (2023). Group-wise Sparse and Explainable Adversarial Attacks. [arXiv]
    [BibTeX]
    @misc{2023_SadikuWagnerPokutta_Groupwisesparseattacks,
      archiveprefix = {arXiv},
      eprint = {2311.17434},
      primaryclass = {cs.CV},
      year = {2023},
      author = {Sadiku, Shpresim and Wagner, Moritz and Pokutta, Sebastian},
      title = {Group-wise Sparse and Explainable Adversarial Attacks}
    }

๐Ÿ’ฌ Talks and posters

Conference and workshop talks

Sep 2022
Wavelet-based Low Frequency Adversarial Attacks
3rd BMS-BGSMath Junior Meeting, Barcelona [PDF]
Mar 2021
Neural Network Approximation Theory
BMS Conference [PDF]

Research seminar talks

Aug 2023
Minimally Distorted Explainable Adversarial Attacks
AIP Seminar, RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project, Tokyo
Feb 2023
What Is Backpropagation?
"What is ...?" seminar [PDF]

Poster presentations

Mar 2024
Group-wise Sparse and Explainable Adversarial Attacks
Deep Learning: Theory, Applications, and Implications, RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project, Tokyo
Mar 2023
Wavelet-based Low Frequency Adversarial Attacks
Workshop on Optimization and Machine Learning, Waischenfeld

๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿซ Teaching

summer 2019
Tutor for Computational Statistics at Technical University of Munich

๐Ÿ“ Organization and outreach

2022
Assisted in the organization of the IOL-DISCOGA Seminar in Berlin