Max Zimmer

Berlin, Germany

I am a second-year PhD candidate at the Institute of Mathematics, TU Berlin under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Sebastian Pokutta and work as a doctoral researcher in the Interactive Optimization and Learning (IOL) research lab at the Zuse Institute Berlin (ZIB). My research interests are centered around Machine Learning and Optimization in general. In particular, I am interested in Compression of Neural Networks, Explainability (XAI), Fairness in AI as well as first-order optimization. Since 2022, I am also a member of the BMS graduate school, which is part of the MATH+ Cluster of Excellence.

Before joining IOL in 2020 as a student research assistant, I worked on Nash Flows over Time together with Leon Sering at the Combinatorial Optimization and Graph Algorithms Group (COGA) at TU Berlin. During my BSc and MSc in Mathematics, which I both received from TU Berlin, I got the chance to intern in the research groups of Prof. Sergio de Rosa at Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II and Prof. Marco Mondelli at IST Austria.

You can email me at zimmer [at] zib.de.

Recent publications

  1. How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Retraining
    Max ZimmerChristoph Spiegel, and Sebastian Pokutta
    In International Conference on Learning Representations, 2023
  2. Preprint
    Compression-aware Training of Neural Networks using Frank-Wolfe
    Max ZimmerChristoph Spiegel, and Sebastian Pokutta
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2205.11921, 2022
  3. Preprint
    Merlin-Arthur Classifiers: Formal Interpretability with Interactive Black Boxes
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2206.00759, 2022
  4. Flows over time as continuous limits of packet-based network simulations
    Theresa Ziemke, Leon Sering, Laura Vargas KochMax Zimmer, Kai Nagel, and Martin Skutella
    Transportation Research Procedia, 2021
  5. Preprint
    Deep Neural Network training with Frank-Wolfe
    Sebastian PokuttaChristoph Spiegel, and Max Zimmer
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.07243, 2020