Prof. Dr. Sebastian Pokutta

Vice President
Zuse Institute Berlin (ZIB)

Professor for
Optimization and Machine Learning
Mathematics and EECS (courtesy)
Technische Universität Berlin
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Recent Papers.

  1. Thuerck, D., Sofranac, B., Pfetsch, M., and Pokutta, S. (2023). Learning Cuts via Enumeration Oracles. Preprint. [arXiv]
  2. Martinez-Rubio, D., Wirth, E., and Pokutta, S. (2023). Accelerated and Sparse Algorithms for Approximate Personalized PageRank and Beyond. To Appear in Proceedings of COLT. [arXiv]
  3. Martinez-Rubio, D., and Pokutta, S. (2023). Accelerated Riemannian Optimization: Handling Constraints to Bound Geometric Penalties. To Appear in Proceedings of COLT. [arXiv] [poster]
  4. Aigner, K., Bärmann, A., Braun, K., Liers, F., Pokutta, S., Schneider, O., Sharma, K., and Tschuppik, S. (2023). Data-driven Distributionally Robust Optimization over Time. To Appear in INFORMS Journal on Optimization. [arXiv]
  5. Kreimeier, T., Pokutta, S., Walther, A., and Woodstock, Z. (2023). On a Frank-Wolfe Approach for Abs-smooth Functions. Preprint. [arXiv]
  6. Designolle, S., Iommazzo, G., Besançon, M., Knebel, S., Gelß, P., and Pokutta, S. (2023). Improved local models and new Bell inequalities via Frank-Wolfe algorithms. Preprint. [arXiv]
  7. Zimmer, M., Spiegel, C., and Pokutta, S. (2023). How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Retraining. To Appear in Proceedings of ICLR. [arXiv] [code]
  8. Chmiela, A., Gleixner, A., Lichocki, P., and Pokutta, S. (2023). Online Learning for Scheduling MIP Heuristics. To Appear in Proceedings of CPAIOR.
  9. Wirth, E., Kera, H., and Pokutta, S. (2023). Approximate Vanishing Ideal Computations at Scale. To Appear in Proceedings of ICLR. [arXiv] [slides]
  10. Wirth, E., Kerdreux, T., and Pokutta, S. (2023). Acceleration of Frank-Wolfe algorithms with open loop step-sizes. To Appear in Proceedings of AISTATS. [arXiv]
  11. Braun, G., Pokutta, S., and Weismantel, R. (2022). Alternating Linear Minimization: Revisiting von Neumann’s alternating projections. Preprint. [arXiv] [slides] [video]
  12. Parczyk, O., Pokutta, S., Spiegel, C., and Szabó, T. (2022). Fully Computer-Assisted Proofs in Extremal Combinatorics. To Appear in Proceedings of AAAI. [arXiv] [slides]
  13. Braun, G., Carderera, A., Combettes, C. W., Hassani, H., Karbasi, A., Mokthari, A., and Pokutta, S. (2022). Conditional Gradient Methods. Preprint. [arXiv]

Select Recent Talks and Teaching.

Recent Blog Posts.

News.

  • 05/2023: Received Gödel Prize together with Samuel Fiorini, Serge Massar, Hans Raj Tiwary, Ronald de Wolf, and Thomas Rothvoss
  • 02/2023: We are organizing a Thematic Einstein Semester on “Mathematical Optimization for Machine Learning” within the Math+ Cluster of Excellence. The semester consists of various activities throughout the semester with three workshops, a conference, and a summer school as some of the highlights. We are looking forward to seeing you in Berlin!
  • 11/2022: We finished our monograph on Frank-Wolfe methods a.k.a. Conditional Gradients. [arxiv] [webpage] [blog]
  • 06/2022: Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC) Test of Time award (10 years) for “Linear vs. Semidefinite Extended Formulations: Exponential Separation and Strong Lower Bounds”, S. Fiorini, S. Massar, S. Pokutta, H.R. Tiwary, R. de Wolf from 2012.
  • 06/2022: 6th RIKEN-IMI-ISM-ZIB-MODAL-NHR Workshop on Advances in Classical and Quantum Algorithms for Optimization and Machine Learning in Japan. [link]