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20182026
most citedFaster Training of Mask R-CNN by Focusing on Instance Boundaries

85 citations · 206 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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15 papers

cs.LG2026

Complex KDA: Understanding and Enhancing the Expressivity of Kimi Delta Attention

Julien Siems, Riccardo Grazzi, Korbinian Pöppel +8

Linear RNNs based on the delta-rule enable efficient sequence modeling, but their linear updates with a low-rank correction constrain their expressivity. Prior work has shown that…

cs.LG2026

Learning State-Tracking from Code Using Linear RNNs

Julien Siems, Riccardo Grazzi, Korbinian Pöppel +3

Over the last years, state-tracking tasks, particularly permutation composition, have become a testbed to understand the limits of sequence models architectures like Transformers a…

cs.LG2025

TempoPFN: Synthetic Pre-training of Linear RNNs for Zero-shot Time Series Forecasting

Vladyslav Moroshan, Julien Siems, Arber Zela +2

Foundation models for zero-shot time series forecasting face challenges in efficient long-horizon prediction and reproducibility, with existing synthetic-only approaches underperfo…

cs.LG2025

DeltaProduct: Improving State-Tracking in Linear RNNs via Householder Products

Julien Siems, Timur Carstensen, Arber Zela +3

Linear Recurrent Neural Networks (linear RNNs) have emerged as competitive alternatives to Transformers for sequence modeling, offering efficient training and linear-time inference…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

Unlocking State-Tracking in Linear RNNs Through Negative Eigenvalues

Riccardo Grazzi, Julien Siems, Arber Zela +3

Linear Recurrent Neural Networks (LRNNs) such as Mamba, RWKV, GLA, mLSTM, and DeltaNet have emerged as efficient alternatives to Transformers for long sequences. However, both Tran…

cs.LG2024★ 2 cited

Mamba4Cast: Efficient Zero-Shot Time Series Forecasting with State Space Models

Sathya Kamesh Bhethanabhotla, Omar Swelam, Julien Siems +2

This paper introduces Mamba4Cast, a zero-shot foundation model for time series forecasting. Based on the Mamba architecture and inspired by Prior-data Fitted Networks (PFNs), Mamba…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

GAMformer: Bridging Tabular Foundation Models and Interpretable Machine Learning

Andreas Mueller, Julien Siems, Harsha Nori +4

While interpretability is crucial for machine learning applications in safety-critical domains and for regulatory compliance, existing tabular foundation models like TabPFN lack tr…

cs.LG2024★ 5 cited

Is Mamba Capable of In-Context Learning?

Riccardo Grazzi, Julien Siems, Simon Schrodi +2

State of the art foundation models such as GPT-4 perform surprisingly well at in-context learning (ICL), a variant of meta-learning concerning the learned ability to solve tasks du…

cs.LG2023

Curve Your Enthusiasm: Concurvity Regularization in Differentiable Generalized Additive Models

Julien Siems, Konstantin Ditschuneit, Winfried Ripken +4

Generalized Additive Models (GAMs) have recently experienced a resurgence in popularity due to their interpretability, which arises from expressing the target value as a sum of non…

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

Interpretable Reinforcement Learning via Neural Additive Models for Inventory Management

Julien Siems, Maximilian Schambach, Sebastian Schulze +1

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of supply chains and the role of digital management to react to dynamic changes in the environment. In this work, we focus on d…

cs.LG2022★ 2 cited

Bayesian Optimization-based Combinatorial Assignment

Jakob Weissteiner, Jakob Heiss, Julien Siems +1

We study the combinatorial assignment domain, which includes combinatorial auctions and course allocation. The main challenge in this domain is that the bundle space grows exponent…

cs.GT2021★ 7 cited

Monotone-Value Neural Networks: Exploiting Preference Monotonicity in Combinatorial Assignment

Jakob Weissteiner, Jakob Heiss, Julien Siems +1

Many important resource allocation problems involve the combinatorial assignment of items, e.g., auctions or course allocation. Because the bundle space grows exponentially in the…

cs.LG2020★ 21 cited

Surrogate NAS Benchmarks: Going Beyond the Limited Search Spaces of Tabular NAS Benchmarks

Arber Zela, Julien Siems, Lucas Zimmer +3

The most significant barrier to the advancement of Neural Architecture Search (NAS) is its demand for large computational resources, which hinders scientifically sound empirical ev…

cs.LG2020★ 81 cited

NAS-Bench-1Shot1: Benchmarking and Dissecting One-shot Neural Architecture Search

Arber Zela, Julien Siems, Frank Hutter

One-shot neural architecture search (NAS) has played a crucial role in making NAS methods computationally feasible in practice. Nevertheless, there is still a lack of understanding…

cs.CV2018★ 85 cited

Faster Training of Mask R-CNN by Focusing on Instance Boundaries

Roland S. Zimmermann, Julien N. Siems

We present an auxiliary task to Mask R-CNN, an instance segmentation network, which leads to faster training of the mask head. Our addition to Mask R-CNN is a new prediction head,…