Throwback ICLR IN Singapore
From 24.04 to 28.04, our Chair presented three works at the international conference for representation learning (ICLR) in Singapore. Our PhD student, Simon Heilig presented his work in collaboration with researchers from University of Pisa (IT) at the main conference! Our PostDoc Denis Lukovnikov and PhD Student Jonas Thietke contributed two posters in joint work with Andreas Müller and Erwin Quiring to the first workshop for GenAI Watermarking. Notably, Jonas had the privilege to present his findings as an oral talk during the workshop!
Simon’s work was all about designing a novel message passing dynamic from a port-Hamiltonian perspective to tackle long-range interactions with graph neural networks. This perfectly aligns with our efforts in the TRR 391 research project on spatio-temporal deep learning.
On the other side, Jonas argued for a principled and correct usage of cryptography in semantic watermarks for diffusion models. This highlights a pressing research direction for trustworthy applications of watermarks in today’s state-of-the-art image generation models. In this line, Denis demonstrated how two watermarking strategies perform when generating images using layout control techniques. Both works show promising directions in the intersection of IT Security and AI .