I am a Computer Science & Math PhD student at Heidelberg University.
My main interest are generative models, in particular methods that are flexible, efficient and high-quality.
Supervisors: Ullrich Köthe and Christoph Schnörr
E-Mail: felix.draxler at iwr.uni-heidelberg.de
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Publications
Current Preprints
- On the Universality of Coupling-based Normalizing Flows
(preprint 2024)
Felix Draxler, Stefan Wahl, Christoph Schnörr, Ullrich Köthe - Learning Distributions on Manifolds with Free-form Flows (preprint 2023)
Peter Sorrenson*, Felix Draxler*, Armand Rousselot*, Sander Hummerich, Ullrich Köthe
Selected Publications
- Free-form Flows: Make Any Architecture a Normalizing Flow (AISTATS 2024)
Felix Draxler*, Peter Sorrenson*, Lea Zimmermann, Armand Rousselot, Ullrich Köthe - Whitening Convergence Rate of Coupling-based Normalizing Flows (NeurIPS 2022) Oral (top 1.8%), Scholar Award
Felix Draxler, Christoph Schnörr, Ullrich Köthe - Characterizing The Role of A Single Coupling Layer in Affine Normalizing Flows (GCPR 2020) Best Paper Honorable Mention (top 3)
Felix Draxler, Jonathan Schwarz, Christoph Schnörr, Ullrich Köthe - Essentially No Barriers in Neural Network Energy Landscape (ICML 2018) Long Oral (top 8.6%)
Felix Draxler, Kambis Veschgini, Manfred Salmhofer, Fred Hamprecht - Software library FrEIA (2018-2023)
Package to easily build invertible neureal networks with PyTorch
Lynton Ardizzone, Till Bungert, Felix Draxler, Ullrich Köthe, Jakob Kruse, Robert Schmier, Peter Sorrenson
See Google Scholar for full list.
Education
- Ph.D. Computer Science & Mathematics, Heidelberg University, Germany.
- Estimated graduation: Summer 2024
- Supervisors: Ullrich Köthe, Christoph Schnörr
- M.Sc. Physics, Heidelberg University, Germany. 2018
- Loss Landscape of Neural Networks
- Supervisors: Fred Hamprecht, Manfred Salmhofer
- Scholarship Max Weber-Programm by the State of Bavaria
- B.Sc. Physics, LMU Munich. 2015
- Thesis: „Evolutionary Optimization of a Cooling Sequence for the Generation of Ultracold Atoms“
- Supervisors: Ulrich Schneider and Immanuel Bloch
- Semester abroad: winter 2015/16: INP Grenoble, France
- Scholarship Max Weber-Programm by the State of Bavaria
Funding
Thankfully acknowledge funding by vector Stiftung (TRINN) and STRUCTURES.