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  1. Wirth, E., Peña, J., and Pokutta, S. (2024). Accelerated Affine-Invariant Convergence Rates of the Frank-Wolfe Algorithm with Open-Loop Step-Sizes. To Appear in Mathematical Programming A. [arXiv]
  2. Vu-Han, T.-L., Sunkara, V., Bermudez-Schettino, R., Schwechten, J., Runge, R., Perka, C., Winkler, T., Pokutta, S., Weiß, C., and Pumberger, M. (2024). Feature Engineering for the Prediction of Scoliosis in 5q-Spinal Muscular Atrophy. Journal of Cachexia, Sarcopenia and Muscle. [PDF]
  3. Haase, J., and Pokutta, S. (2024). Human-AI Co-Creativity: Exploring Synergies Across Levels of Creative Collaboration. Preprint. [arXiv]
  4. Sadiku, S., Wagner, M., Nagarajan, S. G., and Pokutta, S. (2024). S-CFE: Simple Counterfactual Explanations. Preprint. [arXiv]
  5. Głuch, G., Turan, B., Nagarajan, S. G., and Pokutta, S. (2024). The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Watermarks, Transferable Attacks and Adversarial Defenses. Preprint. [arXiv] [summary] [poster]
  6. Designolle, S., Vértesi, T., and Pokutta, S. (2024). Better bounds on Grothendieck constants of finite orders. Preprint. [arXiv]
  7. Braun, G., Pokutta, S., and Woodstock, Z. (2024). Flexible block-iterative analysis for the Frank-Wolfe algorithm. Preprint. [arXiv]
  8. Abbas, A., Ambainis, A., Augustino, B., Bärtschi, A., Buhrman, H., Coffrin, C., Cortiana, G., Dunjko, V., Egger, D. J., Elmegreen, B. G., Franco, N., Fratini, F., Fuller, B., Gacon, J., Gonciulea, C., Gribling, S., Gupta, S., Hadfield, S., Heese, R., … Zoufal, C. (2024). Quantum Optimization: Potential, Challenges, and the Path Forward. Nature Reviews Physics. [PDF] [arXiv]
  9. Stengl, M., Gelß, P., Klus, S., and Pokutta, S. (2024). Existence and Uniqueness of Solutions of the Koopman–von Neumann Equation on Bounded Domains. To Appear in Journal of Physics A. [arXiv]
  10. Wirth, E., Besançon, M., and Pokutta, S. (2024). The Pivoting Framework: Frank-Wolfe Algorithms with Active Set Size Control. Preprint. [arXiv]
  11. Deza, A., Onn, S., Pokutta, S., and Pournin, L. (2024). Kissing polytopes. To Appear in SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics. [PDF] [arXiv]
  12. Wirth, E., Peña, J., and Pokutta, S. (2024). Fast Convergence of Frank-Wolfe algorithms on polytopes. Preprint. [arXiv]
  13. Martinez-Rubio, D., Roux, C., and Pokutta, S. (2024). Convergence and Trade-Offs in Riemannian Gradient Descent and Riemannian Proximal Point. Proceedings of ICML. [arXiv]
  14. Pauls, J., Zimmer, M., Kelly, U. M., Schwartz, M., Saatchi, S., Ciais, P., Pokutta, S., Brandt, M., and Gieseke, F. (2024). Estimating Canopy Height at Scale. Proceedings of ICML. [arXiv] [code]
  15. Kiem, A., Pokutta, S., and Spiegel, C. (2024). Categorification of Flag Algebras. Proceedings of Discrete Mathematics Days. [arXiv]
  16. Mundinger, K., Pokutta, S., Spiegel, C., and Zimmer, M. (2024). Extending the Continuum of Six-Colorings. Geombinatorics Quarterly. [arXiv] [summary] [slides]
  17. Mundinger, K., Zimmer, M., and Pokutta, S. (2024). Neural Parameter Regression for Explicit Representations of PDE Solution Operators. ICLR 2024 Workshop on AI4DifferentialEquations In Science. [PDF] [arXiv] [slides] [poster]
  18. Designolle, S., Vértesi, T., and Pokutta, S. (2024). Symmetric multipartite Bell inequalities via Frank-Wolfe algorithms. Physical Review A, 109(2). [PDF] [arXiv]
  19. Roux, C., Zimmer, M., and Pokutta, S. (2024). On the Byzantine-Resilience of Distillation-Based Federated Learning. Preprint. [arXiv] [summary] [code]
  20. Pokutta, S. (2024). The Frank-Wolfe algorithm: a short introduction. Jahresbericht Der Deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinigung, 126, 3–35. [PDF] [arXiv]
  21. Zimmer, M., Spiegel, C., and Pokutta, S. (2024). Sparse Model Soups: A Recipe for Improved Pruning via Model Averaging. Proceedings of ICLR. [arXiv]
  22. Braun, G., Carderera, A., Combettes, C. W., Hassani, H., Karbasi, A., Mokthari, A., and Pokutta, S. (2022). Conditional Gradient Methods. Preprint. [arXiv]

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