Faculty
Since December 1st 2021 Dr. Sebastian Stich is a tenure track faculty at CISPA. Since June 2020 he is a member of the European Lab for Learning and Intelligent Systems. From December 1st 2016 to November 30th 2021, he worked as a research scientist at EPFL, hosted by Prof. Martin Jaggi, Machine Learning and Optimization Laboratory (MLO). From November 1st 2014 to October 31st 2016, he worked with Prof. Yurii Nesterov and Prof. François Glineur at the Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE) and the ICTEAM. From September 15th 2010 to September 30th 2014, he was a PHD student in Prof. Emo Welzl's research group, supervised by Prof. Bernd Gärtner and Christian Lorenz Müller. And from September 2005 to March 2010 he did his Bachelor and Master in Mathematics at ETH Zurich.
Transactions on Machine Learning Research Personalized Federated Learning via Low-Rank Matrix Optimization
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
Decoupled SGDA for Games with Intermittent Strategy Communication
International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS)
Revisiting LocalSGD and SCAFFOLD: Improved Rates and Missing Analysis
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)
Towards Faster Decentralized Stochastic Optimization with Communication Compression
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)
Scalable Decentralized Learning with Teleportation
Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
Stabilized Proximal Point Methods for Federated Optimization
Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
Universality of AdaGrad Stepsizes for Stochastic Optimization: Inexact Oracle, Acceleration and Variance Reduction
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)
Transactions on Machine Learning Research Locally Adaptive Federated Learning