MLS Lab · University of Stuttgart

Publications

Publications by Mathias Niepert, group members, and collaborators. The archive also includes work preceding the MLS group.

2026

SymDrift: One-Shot Generative Modeling under Symmetries

Samir Darouich, Vinh Tong, Lluís Pastor-Pérez, Tanja Bien, Loay Mualem, Mathias Niepert

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2026.

Distillation of Foundation Models for Time-dependent PDEs

Daniel Musekamp, Boshra Ariguib, Andrei Manolache, Mathias Niepert

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2026.

Geometry Meets Physics: Data-Efficient Pre-Training for Unstructured Neural PDE Solvers

Luis Medrano-Navarro, Giacomo Baldan, Qiang Liu, Benjamin Holzschuh, Jan Hagnberger, Mathias Niepert, Nils Thuerey

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2026.

Robust generative transition-state models for unseen chemistry

Samir Darouich, Jacob Toney, Weiliang Luo, Johannes Kästner, Mathias Niepert, Heather Kulik

Nature Computational Science, 2026.

SMART: Scalable Mesh-free Aerodynamic Simulations from Raw Geometries using a Transformer-based Surrogate Model

Jan Hagnberger, Mathias Niepert

In Proceedings of the 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2026.

Learning the Neighborhood: Contrast-Free Multimodal Self-Supervised Molecular Graph Pretraining

Boshra Ariguib, Mathias Niepert, Andrei Manolache

In Proceedings of the 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2026.

Logical Guidance for the Exact Composition of Diffusion Models

Francesco Alesiani, Jonathan H Warrell, Tanja Bien, Henrik Christiansen, Matheus Ferraz, Mathias Niepert

In Proceedings of the 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2026.

FOCA: Future-Oriented Conditioning for Data-Efficient Vision-Language-Action Adaptation

Minh Duc Nguyen, Nghiem Tuong Diep, Nguyen Gia Binh, Trong-Bao Ho, Doanh Le Thien, Quang Tan Nguyen, Thien-Loc Ha, Tran Van Nhiem, Bao Thach, Tran Xuan Nhat, Tuan Anh Tran, Artur Habuda, Philip Lund Møller, Tran Nguyen Le, Daniel Sonntag, Mathias Niepert, Khoa D Doan, Vu N. Duong, Hung Ngo, Minh Nhat VU, Duy Minh Ho Nguyen, An Thai Le, Vien Anh Ngo

In Proceedings of the 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2026.

Protein Fold Classification at Scale: Benchmarking and Pretraining

Dexiong Chen, Andrei Manolache, Mathias Niepert, Karsten Borgwardt

In Proceedings of the 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2026. Oral presentation.

Preference-Based Gradient Estimation for ML-Guided Approximate Combinatorial Optimization

Arman Mielke, Uwe Bauknecht, Thilo Strauss, Mathias Niepert

Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR), 2026.

Adaptive Transition-State Refinement with Learned Equilibrium Flows

Samir Darouich, Vinh Tong, Tanja Bien, Johannes Kästner, Mathias Niepert

Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling (JCIM), 2026.

Performance of Universal Machine-Learned Potentials with Explicit Long-Range Interactions in Biomolecular Simulations

Viktor Zaverkin, Matheus Ferraz, Francesco Alesiani, Mathias Niepert

ACS Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation (JCTC), 2026.

Adaptive Width Neural Networks

Federico Errica, Henrik Christiansen, Viktor Zaverkin, Mathias Niepert, Francesco Alesiani

International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2026.

FACET: A Fragment-Aware Conformer Ensemble Transformer

Duy Nguyen, Trung Nguyen, Ha Le, Mai Truong, TrungTin Nguyen, Nhat Ho, Khoa D. Doan, Duy Duong-Tran, Li Shen, Daniel Sonntag, James Zou, Mathias Niepert, Hyojin Kim, Jonathan E. Allen

International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2026.

2025

Learning (Approximately) Equivariant Networks via Constrained Optimization

Andrei Manolache, Luiz Chamon, Mathias Niepert

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2025. oral presentation (top 0.3% of submissions)

Rao-Blackwell Gradient Estimators for Equivariant Denoising Diffusion

Vinh Tong, Trung-Dung Hoang, Anji Liu, Guy Van den Broeck, Mathias Niepert

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2025.

CALM-PDE: Continuous and Adaptive Convolutions for Latent Space Modeling of Time-dependent PDEs

Jan Hagnberger, Daniel Musekamp, Mathias Niepert

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2025. spotlight presentation (top 3% of submissions)

ExGra-Med: Extended Context Graph Alignment for Medical Vision-Language Models

Duy M. H. Nguyen, Nghiem Diep, Trung Nguyen, Hoang-Bao Le, Tai Nguyen, Anh-Tien Nguyen, TrungTin Nguyen, Nhat Ho, Pengtao Xie, Roger Wattenhofer, Daniel Sonntag, James Zou, Mathias Niepert

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2025.

How Many Tokens Do 3D Point Cloud Transformer Architectures Really Need?

Tuan Tran, Duy M. H. Nguyen, Hoai-Chau Tran, Michael Barz, Khoa D Doan, Roger Wattenhofer, Vien Ngo, Mathias Niepert, Daniel Sonntag, Paul Swoboda

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2025.

From Fragments to Geometry: A Unified Graph Transformer for Molecular Representation from Conformer Ensembles

Duy Minh Ho Nguyen, Trung Quoc Nguyen, Ha Thi Hong Le, Mai Thanh Nhat Truong, TrungTin Nguyen, Nhat Ho, Khoa D Doan, Duy Duong-Tran, Li Shen, Daniel Sonntag, James Zou, Mathias Niepert, Hyojin Kim, Jonathan E Allen

Generative AI and Biology (GenBio) Workshop @ ICML 2025.

Enriched Instruction-Following Graph Alignment for Efficient Medical Vision-Language Models

Duy Minh Ho Nguyen, Nghiem Tuong Diep, Trung Quoc Nguyen, Hoang-Bao Le, Tai Nguyen, Anh-Tien Nguyen, TrungTin Nguyen, Nhat Ho, Pengtao Xie, Roger Wattenhofer, Daniel Sonntag, James Zou, Mathias Niepert

Workshop on Multi-modal Foundation Models and Large Language Models for Life Sciences @ ICML 2025.

Prompt Engineering Techniques for Language Model Reasoning Lack Replicability

Laurène Vaugrante, Mathias Niepert, Thilo Hagendorff

Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR), 2025.

How Many Tokens Do 3D Point Cloud Transformer Architectures Really Need?

Tuan Anh Tran, Duy Minh Ho Nguyen, Hoai-Chau Tran, Michael Barz, Khoa D Doan, Roger Wattenhofer, Vien Anh Ngo, Mathias Niepert, Daniel Sonntag, Paul Swoboda

Workshop on Efficient Systems for Foundation Models @ ICML 2025.

Physics-Informed Weakly-Supervised Learning for Interatomic Potentials

Makoto Takamoto, Viktor Zaverkin, Mathias Niepert

In Proceedings of the 42nd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2025).

Adaptive Message Passing: A General Framework to Mitigate Oversmoothing, Oversquashing, and Underreaching

Federico Errica, Henrik Christiansen, Viktor Zaverkin, Takashi Maruyama, Mathias Niepert, and Francesco Alesiani

In Proceedings of the 42nd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2025).

On Zero-Initialized Attention: Optimal Prompt and Gating Factor Estimation

Nghiem Tuong Diep, Huy Nguyen, Chau Nguyen, Minh Le, Duy Minh Ho Nguyen, Daniel Sonntag, Mathias Niepert, and Nhat Ho

In Proceedings of the 42nd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2025).

Tractable Transformers for Flexible Conditional Generation

Anji Liu, Xuejie Liu, Dayuan Zhao, Mathias Niepert, Yitao Liang, and Guy Van den Broeck

In Proceedings of the 42nd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2025).

Position: Graph Learning Will Lose Relevance Due To Poor Benchmarks

Maya Bechler-Speicher, Ben Finkelshtein, Fabrizio Frasca, Luis Müller, Jan Tönshoff, Antoine Siraudin, Viktor Zaverkin, Michael M. Bronstein, Mathias Niepert, Bryan Perozzi, Mikhail Galkin, and Christopher Morris

In Proceedings of the 42nd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2025).

Symmetry-Preserving Diffusion Models via Target Symmetrization

Vinh Tong, Yun Ye, Dung Trung Hoang, Anji Liu, Guy Van den Broeck, Mathias Niepert

Workshop on Deep Generative Models in Machine Learning: Theory, Principle and Efficacy @ ICLR 2025.

LOGLO-FNO: Efficient Learning of Local and Global Features in Fourier Neural Operators

Marimuthu Kalimuthu, David Holzmüller, Mathias Niepert

Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR), 2025. Workshop on Machine Learning Multiscale Processes @ ICLR 2025. (oral presentation)

Adaptive Physics-informed Neural Networks: A Survey

Edgar Torres, Jonathan Schiefer, Mathias Niepert

Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR 2025).

Learning to Discretize Denoising Diffusion ODEs

Vinh Tong, Trung-Dung Hoang, Anji Liu, Guy Van den Broeck, Mathias Niepert

In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2025). selected for an oral presentation (top 1.8% of submissions)

Active Learning for Neural PDE Solvers

Daniel Musekamp, Marimuthu Kalimuthu, David Holzmüller, Makoto Takamoto, Mathias Niepert

In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2025).

Discrete Copula Diffusion

Anji Liu, Oliver Broadrick, Mathias Niepert, Guy Van den Broeck

In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2025).

2024

Survey: Adaptive Physics-informed Neural Networks

Edgar Torres and Mathias Niepert

Workshop on Foundation Models for Science @ NeurIPS 2024.

MolMix: A Simple Yet Effective Baseline for Multimodal Molecular Representation Learning

Andrei Manolache, Dragos-Constantin Tantaru, Mathias Niepert

Workshop on Machine Learning for Structural Biology @ NeurIPS 2024.

Active Learning for Neural PDE Solvers

Daniel Musekamp, Marimuthu Kalimuthu, David Holzmüller, Makoto Takamoto, Mathias Niepert

Workshop on Data-driven and Differentiable Simulations, Surrogates, and Solvers @ NeurIPS 2024.

Higher-Rank Irreducible Cartesian Tensors for Equivariant Message Passing

Viktor Zaverkin, Francesco Alesiani, Takashi Maruyama, Federico Errica, Henrik Christiansen, Makoto Takamoto, Nicolas Weber, Mathias Niepert

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2024).

Accelerating Transformers with Spectrum-Preserving Token Merging

Hoai-Chau Tran, Duy Minh Ho Nguyen, Manh-Duy Nguyen, TrungTin Nguyen, Ngan Hoang Le, Pengtao Xie, Daniel Sonntag, James Zou, Binh T. Nguyen, Mathias Niepert

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2024).

Probabilistic Graph Rewiring via Virtual Nodes

Chendi Qian, Andrei Manolache, Christopher Morris, Mathias Niepert

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2024).

Dude: Dual Distribution-Aware Context Prompt Learning For Large Vision-Language Model

Duy Minh Ho Nguyen, An Thai Le, Trung Quoc Nguyen, Nghiem Tuong Diep, Tai Nguyen, Duy Duong-Tran, Jan Peters, Li Shen, Mathias Niepert, Daniel Sonntag

In Proceedings of the 16th Asian Conference on Machine Learning (ACML 2024).

Physics-Informed Weakly Supervised Learning for Interatomic Potentials

Makoto Takamoto, Viktor Zaverkin, Mathias Niepert

AI for Science Workshop @ ICML 2024.

L2XGNN: Learning to Explain Graph Neural Networks

Giuseppe Serra and Mathias Niepert

Machine Learning Journal and ECML 2024.

Vectorized Conditional Neural Fields: A Framework for Solving Time-dependent Parametric Partial Differential Equations

Jan Hagnberger, Marimuthu Kalimuthu, Daniel Musekamp, Mathias Niepert

In Proceedings of the 41st International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2024).

Structure-Aware E(3)-Invariant Molecular Conformer Aggregation Networks

Duy Nguyen, Nina Lukashina, Tai Nguyen, An Le, TrungTin Nguyen, Nhat Ho, Jan Peters, Daniel Sonntag, Viktor Zaverkin, Mathias Niepert

In Proceedings of the 41st International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2024).

Uncertainty-biased molecular dynamics for learning uniformly accurate interatomic potentials

Viktor Zaverkin, David Holzmüller, Henrik Christiansen, Federico Errica, Francesco Alesiani, Makoto Takamoto, Mathias Niepert, Johannes Kästner

NPJ Computational Materials.

Vectorized Conditional Neural Fields: A Framework for Solving Time-dependent PDEs

Jan Hagnberger, Marimuthu Kalimuthu, Daniel Musekamp, Mathias Niepert

AI for Differential Equations in Science Workshop @ ICLR 2024.

Vectorized Conditional Neural Fields for Computational Fluid Dynamics

Jan Hagnberger, Marimuthu Kalimuthu, Mathias Niepert

1st Workshop on Machine Learning for Fluid Dynamics (ERCOFTAC), Paris, 8 March 2024.

Tractable Probabilistic Graph Representation Learning with Graph-Induced Sum-Product Networks

Federico Errica and Mathias Niepert

In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2024).

Image Inpainting via Tractable Steering of Diffusion Models

Anji Liu, Mathias Niepert, and Guy Van den Broeck

In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2024).

Probabilistically Rewired Message-Passing Neural Networks

Chendi Qian, Andrei Manolache, Kareem Ahmed, Zhe Zeng, Guy Van den Broeck, Mathias Niepert, and Christopher Morris

In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2024).

2023

On the Out of Distribution Robustness of Foundation Models in Medical Image Segmentation

Duy Nguyen, Tan Pham, Nghiem Diep, Nghi Phan, Quang Pham, Vinh Tong, Binh Nguyen, Ngan Le, Nhat Ho, Pengtao Xie, Daniel Sonntag, and Mathias Niepert

Workshop on Robustness of Few-shot and Zero-shot Learning in Large Foundation Models @ NeurIPS 2023.

LVM-Med: Learning Large-Scale Self-Supervised Vision Models for Medical Imaging via Second-order Graph Matching

Duy Nguyen, Hoang Nguyen, Nghiem Diep, Tan Pham, Tri Cao, Binh Nguyen, Paul Swoboda, Nhat Ho, Shadi Albarqouni, Pengtao Xie, Daniel Sonntag, and Mathias Niepert

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2023).

Learning Disentangled Discrete Representations

David Friede, Christian Reimers, Heiner Stuckenschmidt, and Mathias Niepert

In Proceedings of the 34th European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML 2023).

Learning Neural PDE Solvers with Parameter-Guided Channel Attention

Makoto Takamoto, Francesco Alesiani, and Mathias Niepert

In Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2023).

Adaptive Perturbation-Based Gradient Estimation for Discrete Latent Variable Models

Pasquale Minervini, Luca Franceschi, and Mathias Niepert

In Proceedings of the 37th Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2023).

SIMPLE: A Gradient Estimator for k-Subset Sampling

Kareem Ahmed, Zhe Zeng, Mathias Niepert, and Guy Van den Broeck

In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2023).

State-Regularized Recurrent Neural Networks to Extract Automata and Explain Predictions

Cheng Wang, Carolin Lawrence, and Mathias Niepert

Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), vol. 45, no. 06, 2023.

Probabilistic Task-Adaptive Graph Rewiring

Chendi Qian, Andrei Manolache, Kareem Ahmed, Zhe Zeng, Guy Van den Broeck, Mathias Niepert, and Christopher Morris

Workshop on Differentiable Almost Everything: Differentiable Relaxations, Algorithms, Operators, and Simulators @ ICML 2023.

Approximate Answering of Graph Queries

Michael Cochez, Dimitrios Alivanistos, Erik Arakelyan, Max Berrendorf, Daniel Daza, Mikhail Galkin, Pasquale Minervini, Mathias Niepert, and Hongyu Ren

Compendium of Neurosymbolic Artificial Intelligence.

2022

SIMPLE: A Gradient Estimator for k-Subset Sampling

Kareem Ahmed, Zhe Zeng, Mathias Niepert, and Guy Van den Broeck

SoCal ML and NLP Symposium, 2022.

Channel-Attention-Based PDE Parameter Embeddings for SciML

Makoto Takamoto, Francesco Alesiani, and Mathias Niepert

Machine Learning and the Physical Sciences Workshop (ML4PS) @ NeurIPS.

HyperFNO: Improving the Generalization Behavior of Fourier Neural Operators

Francesco Alesiani, Makoto Takamoto, and Mathias Niepert

Machine Learning and the Physical Sciences Workshop (ML4PS) @ NeurIPS.

Joint Multilingual Knowledge Graph Completion and Alignment

Vinh Tong, Dat Quoc Nguyen, Trung Thanh Huynh, Tam Thanh Nguyen, Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen, Mathias Niepert

In Findings of Empirical Natural Language Processing (Findings EMNLP 2022).

Ordered Subgraph Aggregation Networks

Chendi Qian, Gaurav Rattan, Floris Geerts, Christopher Morris, Mathias Niepert

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2022).

Behavioral Testing of Knowledge Graph Embedding Models for Link Prediction

Wiem Ben Rim, Carolin Lawrence, Kiril Gashteovski, Mathias Niepert, Naoaki Okazaki

BlackboxNLP Workshop co-located with EMNLP 2022.

PDEBench: An Extensive Benchmark for Scientific Machine Learning

Makoto Takamoto, Timothy Praditia, Raphael Leiteritz, Dan MacKinlay, Francesco Alesiani, Dirk Pflüger, Mathias Niepert

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2022).

MILIE: Modular & Iterative Multilingual Open Information Extraction

Bhushan Kotnis, Kiril Gashteovski, Daniel Rubio, Ammar Shaker, Vanesa Rodriguez-Tembras, Makoto Takamoto, Mathias Niepert, Carolin Lawrence

Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2022.

BenchIE: A Framework for Multi-Faceted Fact-Based Open Information Extraction Evaluation

Kiril Gashteovski, Mingying Yu, Bhushan Kotnis, Carolin Lawrence, Mathias Niepert, Goran Glavaš

Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2022.

AnnIE: An Annotation Platform for Constructing Complete Open Information Extraction Benchmark

Niklas Friedrich, Kiril Gashteovski, Mingying Yu, Bhushan Kotnis, Carolin Lawrence, Mathias Niepert and Goran Glavaš

Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations, 2022.

2021

Implicit MLE: Backpropagating Through Discrete Exponential Family Distributions

Mathias Niepert, Pasquale Minervini, and Luca Franceschi

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2021).

Efficient Learning of Discrete-Continuous Computation Graphs

David Friede and Mathias Niepert

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2021).

User Profiling by Network Observers

Roberto González, Claudio Soriente, Juan Miguel Carrascosa, Alberto Garcia-Duran, Costas Iordanou, Mathias Niepert

International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (ACM CoNext 2021).

Behavioral Testing of Knowledge Graph Embedding Models for Link Prediction

Wiem Ben Rim, Carolin Lawrence, Kiril Gashteovski, Mathias Niepert, Naoaki Okazaki

International Conference on Automated Knowledge Base Construction (AKBC 2021).

Wayfinder: towards automatically deriving optimal OS configurations

Alexander Jung, Hugo Lefeuvre, Charalampos Rotsos, Pierre Olivier, Daniel Oñoro-Rubio, Felipe Huici, Mathias Niepert

12th ACM SIGOPS Asia-Pacific Workshop on Systems (APSys 2021).

VEGN: Variant Effect Prediction with Graph Neural Networks

Jun Cheng, Carolin Lawrence, Mathias Niepert

ICML Workshop on Computational Biology (WCB).

Uncertainty Estimation and Calibration with Finite-State Probabilistic RNNs

Cheng Wang, Carolin Lawrence, Mathias Niepert

In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2021).

Explaining Neural Matrix Factorization with Gradient Rollback

Carolin Lawrence, Timo Sztyler, and Mathias Niepert

In Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2021).

Answering Complex Queries in Knowledge Graphs with Bidirectional Sequence Encoders

Bhushan Kotnis, Carolin Lawrence, and Mathias Niepert

In Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2021).

Learning Representations of Missing Data using Graph Neural Networks for Predicting Patient Outcomes

Brandon Malone, Alberto Garcia-Duran, and Mathias Niepert

AAAI'21 Workshop on Deep Learning on Graphs: Methods and Applications (DLG-AAAI'21)

Learning Sparsity of Representations with Discrete Latent Variables

Zhao Xu, Daniel Onoro Rubio, Giuseppe Serra, and Mathias Niepert

In Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2021).

Interpreting Node Embedding with Text-labeled Graphs

Giuseppe Serra, Zhao Xu, Mathias Niepert, Carolin Lawrence, Peter Tiňo, and Xin Yao

In Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2021).

2020

Tractability through Exchangeability: The Statistics of Lifting

Mathias Niepert, Guy Van den Broeck

In An Introduction to Probabilistic Lifted Inference, MIT Press.

Lifted Markov Chain Monte Carlo

Mathias Niepert, Guy Van den Broeck

In An Introduction to Probabilistic Lifted Inference, MIT Press.

Explaining Neural Matrix Factorization with Gradient Rollback

Carolin Lawrence, Timo Sztyler, and Mathias Niepert

Women in Machine Learning Workshop @ NeurIPS.

RecSys-DAN: Discriminative Adversarial Networks for Cross-Domain Recommender Systems

Cheng Wang, Mathias Niepert, Hui Li

IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems.

TransRev: Modeling Reviews as Translations from Users to Items

Alberto Garcia-Duran, Roberto Gonzalez, Daniel Onoro-Rubio, Mathias Niepert, Hui Li

preprint In Proceedings of the European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR).

Uncertainty Estimation and Calibration with Finite-State Probabilistic RNNs

Cheng Wang, Carolin Lawrence, Mathias Niepert

preprint

2019

Attending to Future Tokens For Bidirectional Sequence Generation

Carolin Lawrence, Bhushan Kotnis, and Mathias Niepert

In Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), Hong Kong.

Cross-Sentence N-ary Relation Extraction using Lower-Arity Universal Schemas

Kosuke Akimoto, Takuya Hiraoka, Kunihiko Sadamasa, and Mathias Niepert

In Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), Hong Kong.

State-Regularized Recurrent Neural Networks

Cheng Wang, Mathias Niepert

In Proceedings of the 36th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), Long Beach, USA.

State-Regularized Recurrent Neural Networks

Cheng Wang, Mathias Niepert

BlackboxNLP Workshop co-located with ACL 2019, Florence, Italy.

Learning Discrete Structures for Graph Neural Networks

Luca Franceschi, Mathias Niepert, Massimiliano Pontil, Xiao He

In Proceedings of the 36th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), Long Beach, USA.

A Comparative Study of Distributional and Symbolic Paradigms for Relational Learning

Sebastijan Dumancic, Alberto Garcia-Duran, Mathias Niepert

In Proceedings of the 28th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), Macao, China.

Answering Visual-Relational Queries in Web-Extracted Knowledge Graphs

Daniel Oñoro-Rubio, Mathias Niepert, Alberto García-Durán, Roberto González, Roberto J. López-Sastre

In Proceedings of the 1st Conference on Automated Knowledge Base Construction (AKBC), Amherst, Massachusetts.

Graph Structure Learning for GCNs

Luca Franceschi, Mathias Niepert, Massimiliano Pontil, Xiao He

ICLR Workshop on Representation Learning on Graphs and Manifolds, New Orleans, USA.

MMKG: Multi-Modal Knowledge Graphs

Ye Liu, Hui Li, Alberto García-Durán, Mathias Niepert, Daniel Oñoro-Rubio, David S. Rosenblum

In Proceedings of the 16th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC), Portoroz, Slovenia.

2018

LRMM: Learning to Recommend with Missing Modalities

Cheng Wang, Mathias Niepert, and Hui Li

In Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing ( EMNLP ), Brussels, Belgium.

Learning Sequence Encoders for Temporal Knowledge Base Completion

Alberto Garcia-Duran, Sebastijan Dumancic, and Mathias Niepert

In Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing ( EMNLP ), Brussels, Belgium.

KBLRN: End-to-End Learning of Knowledge Base Representations with Latent, Relational, and Numerical Features

Alberto Garcia-Duran and Mathias Niepert

In Proceedings of the 34th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence ( UAI ), Monterey, California.

Towards A Spectrum of Graph Convolutional Networks

Mathias Niepert and Alberto Garcia-Duran

In Proceedings of the 1st IEEE Data Science Workshop, Lausanne, Switzerland.

Contextual Hourglass Networks for Segmentation and Density Estimation

Daniel Oñoro-Rubio and Mathias Niepert

Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Medical Imaging with Deep Learning ( MIDL ), Amsterdam, The Netherlands. (winner of NVIDIA best poster award)

Learning Short-Cut Connections for Object Counting

Daniel Oñoro-Rubio, Mathias Niepert, Roberto J. López-Sastre

Proceedings of the 29th British Machine Vision Conference ( BMVC ), Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.

On Embeddings as an Alternative Paradigm for Relational Learning

Sebastijan Dumancic, Alberto Garcia-Duran, and Mathias Niepert

Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Statistical Relational AI ( StaRAI ), Stockholm, Sweden, 2018.

Representation Learning for Resource Usage Prediction

Florian Schmidt, Mathias Niepert, and Felipe Huici

Proceedings of the 1st SysML Conference, Stanford, USA.

BrainSlug: Transparent Acceleration of Deep Learning Through Depth-First Parallelism

Nicolas Weber, Florian Schmidt, Mathias Niepert, and Felipe Huici

preprint

Representation Learning for Visual-Relational Knowledge Graphs

Daniel Oñoro-Rubio, Mathias Niepert, Alberto García-Durán, Roberto González, Roberto J. López-Sastre

KDD Deep Learning Day, London, UK. preprint

2017

Learning Graph Representations with Embedding Propagation

Alberto Garcia-Duran and Mathias Niepert

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems ( NIPS ), Long Beach, USA, 2017.

Net2vec: Deep Learning for the Network

Roberto Gonzalez, Filipe Manco, Alberto Garcia-Duran, Jose Mendes, Felipe Huici, Saverio Niccolini, and Mathias Niepert

Proceedings of the Workshop on Big Data Analytics and Machine Learning for Data Communication Networks, Big-DAMA, SIGCOMM 2017

Network Data Monetization Using Net2Vec

Roberto Gonzalez, Alberto García-Durán, Filipe Manco, Mathias Niepert, and Pelayo Vallina

Proceedings of the Conference of the ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication (SIGCOMM) 2017.

An Infrastructure for Probabilistic Reasoning with Web Ontologies

Jakob Huber, Mathias Niepert, Jan Noessner, Joerg Schoenfisch, Christian Meilicke, and Heiner Stuckenschmidt

Semantic Web Journal, 2017.

Scalable Regression Tree Learning in Data Streams

Konstantin Kutzkov, Mathias Niepert, and Mohamed Ahmed

2016

Discriminative Gaifman Models

Mathias Niepert

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems ( NIPS ), Barcelona, Spain, 2016.

Learning Convolutional Neural Networks for Graphs

Mathias Niepert, Mohamed Ahmed, and Konstantin Kutzkov

In Proceedings of the 33rd International Conference on Machine Learning ( ICML ), New York City, 2016.

2015

Learning and Inference in Tractable Probabilistic Knowledge Bases

Mathias Niepert and Pedro Domingos

Proceedings of the 31st Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence. ( UAI ), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2015

Lifted Probabilistic Inference for Asymmetric Graphical Models

Guy Van den Broeck and Mathias Niepert

Proceedings of the 29th Conference on Artificial Intelligence. (oral presentation) ( AAAI ), Austin, Texas, 2015.

2014

Generalized Conditional Independence and Decomposition Cognizant Curvature: Implications for Function Optimization

Mathias Niepert, Pedro Domingos, and Jeff Bilmes

NIPS Workshop on Discrete and Combinatorial Problems in Machine Learning ( DISCML ) 2014.

Out of Many, One: Unifying Web-Extracted Knowledge Bases

Mathias Niepert and Sameer Singh

NIPS Workshop on Automated Knowledge Base Construction ( AKBC ) 2014.

Exchangeable Variable Models

Mathias Niepert and Pedro Domingos

In Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Machine Learning ( ICML ), Beijing, China, 2014. (also accepted for presentation at the ICML Learning Tractable Probabilistic Models Workshop )

Tractability through Exchangeability: A New Perspective on Efficient Probabilistic Inference

Mathias Niepert and Guy Van den Broeck

In Proceedings of the 28th Conference on Artificial Intelligence ( AAAI ), Quebec City, Canada, 2014. (one of 5 papers nominated for the AAAI outstanding paper award) ; also accepted for presentation at the SIGMOD/PODS Big Uncertain Data Workshop )

Tractable Probabilistic Knowledge Bases: Wikipedia and Beyond

Mathias Niepert and Pedro Domingos

In Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Statistical Relational AI ( StaRAI ), Quebec City, Canada, 2014.

LODE: Linking Digital Humanities Content to the Web of Data

Jakob Huber, Timo Sztyler, Jan Noessner, Jaimie Murdock, Colin Allen, and Mathias Niepert

In Proceedings of the 14th ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries ( JCDL ), London, UK, 2014.

On the completeness of the semigraphoid axioms for deriving arbitrary from saturated conditional independence statements

Marc Gyssens, Mathias Niepert, and Dirk Van Gucht

Information Processing Letters, 2014.

Completeness and Optimality in Ontology Alignment Debugging

Jan Noessner, Heiner Stuckenschmidt, Christian Meilicke, and Mathias Niepert

Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Ontology Matching, Trento, Italy, 2014.

2013

Symmetry-Aware Marginal Density Estimation

Mathias Niepert

In Proceedings of the 27th Conference on Artificial Intelligence ( AAAI ), Bellevue, Washington, USA, 2013. (also accepted for presentation at the Statistical Relational AI workshop )

The Conditional Independence Implication Problem: A Lattice-Theoretic Approach

Mathias Niepert, Bassem Sayrafi, Marc Gyssens, and Dirk Van Gucht

Artificial Intelligence 202:29-51, 2013.

Statistical Relational Data Integration for Information Extraction

Mathias Niepert

Reasoning Web, Springer, Heidelberg, 2013.

Computing Incoherence Explanations for Learned Ontologies

Daniel Fleischhacker, Christian Meilicke, Johanna Voelker, and Mathias Niepert

In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems, Mannheim, Germany, 2013.

Integrating Open and Closed Information Extraction: Challenges and First Steps

Arnab Dutta, Mathias Niepert, Christian Meilicke, Simone Paolo Ponzetto

In Proceedings of the NLP & DBpedia workshop co-located with ISWC, Sydney, Australia, 2013.

RockIt: Exploiting Parallelism and Symmetry for MAP Inference in Statistical Relational Models

Jan Noessner, Mathias Niepert, and Heiner Stuckenschmidt

In Proceedings of the 27th Conference on Artificial Intelligence ( AAAI ), Bellevue, Washington, USA, 2013. (also accepted for presentation at the Statistical Relational AI workshop )

2012

Lifted Probabilistic Inference: An MCMC Perspective

Mathias Niepert

In Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Statistical Relational AI ( StaR AI ), Catalina Island, USA, 2012.

Markov Chains on Orbits of Permutation Groups

Mathias Niepert

In Proceedings of the 28th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence ( UAI ), Catalina Island, USA, 2012.

Towards Distributed MCMC Inference in Probabilistic Knowledge Bases

Mathias Niepert, Christian Meilicke, and Heiner Stuckenschmidt

NAACL-HLT Joint Workshop on Automatic Knowledge Base Construction and Web-scale Knowledge Extraction ( AKBC-WEKEX ), Montreal, Canada, 2012.

Probabilistic Optimization of Semantic Process Model Matching

Henrik Leopold, Mathias Niepert, Matthias Weidlich, Jan Mendling, Remco Dijkman, and Heiner Stuckenschmidt

In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Business Process Management ( BPM ), Tallinn, Estonia, 2012.

Towards Activity Recognition Using Probabilistic Description Logics

Rim Helaoui, Daniele Riboni, Mathias Niepert, Claudio Bettini and Heiner Stuckenschmidt

In Proceedings of the AAAI workshops, Toronto, Canada, 2012.

2011

Reasoning under Uncertainty with Log-Linear Description Logics

Mathias Niepert

In Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Uncertain Reasoning for the Semantic Web (URSW) at ISWC, Bonn, Germany, 2011.

Fine-Grained Sentiment Analysis with Structural Features

Caecilia Zirn, Mathias Niepert, Heiner Stuckenschmidt, and Michael Strube

In Proceedings of the 5th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP), Chiang Mai, Thailand, 2011. (best paper award)

Log-Linear Description Logics

Mathias Niepert, Jan Noessner, and Heiner Stuckenschmidt

In Proceedings of the 22nd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), Barcelona, Spain, 2011. (selected for oral presentation)

Coherent Top-k Ontology Alignment for OWL EL

Jan Noessner, Mathias Niepert and Heiner Stuckenschmidt

In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Scalable Uncertainty Management (SUM), Dayton, Ohio, Springer-Verlag, 2011.

Recognizing Interleaved and Concurrent Activities Using Qualitative and Quantitative Temporal Relationships

Rim Helaoui, Mathias Niepert and Heiner Stuckenschmidt

Pervasive and Mobile Computing, Volume 7, Issue 6, Elsevier, 2011.

ELOG: A Probabilistic Reasoner for OWL EL

Jan Noessner and Mathias Niepert

In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (RR), Galway, Ireland, Springer-Verlag, 2011.

Probabilistic-Logical Web Data Integration

Mathias Niepert, Jan Noessner, Christian Meilicke, and Heiner Stuckenschmidt

In Reasoning Web: 7th International Summer School 2011, Galway, Ireland, Springer-Verlag, 2011.

Statistical Schema Induction

Johanna Voelker and Mathias Niepert

In Proceedings of the 8th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC), Heraklion, Greece, Springer-Verlag, 2011.

Recognizing Interleaved and Concurrent Activities: A Statistical Relational Approach

Rim Helaoui, Mathias Niepert, and Heiner Stuckenschmidt

In Proceedings of the 9th IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom), Seattle, Washington, 2011.

2010

A Delayed Column Generation Strategy for Exact k -Bounded MAP Inference in Markov Logic Networks

Mathias Niepert

In Proceedings of the 26th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI), Catalina Island, California, AUAI Press, 2010.

A Probabilistic-Logical Framework for Ontology Matching

Mathias Niepert, Christian Meilicke, and Heiner Stuckenschmidt

In Proceedings of the 24th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), Atlanta, Georgia, AAAI Press, 2010. (selected as exceptional top 4% paper)

CODI: Combinatorial Optimization for Data Integration

Jan Noessner and Mathias Niepert

In Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Ontology Matching (OM), Shanghai, China, 2010.

Crowdsourcing the Assembly of Concept Hierarchies

Kai Eckert, Mathias Niepert, Christof Niemann, Cameron Buckner, Colin Allen, and Heiner Stuckenschmidt

In Proceedings of the 10th ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), Gold Coast, Australia, ACM Press, 2010.

BRAMBLE: A Web-based Framework for Interactive RDF-Graph Visualisation

Nikolas Schmitt, Mathias Niepert, and Heiner Stuckenschmidt

International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) 2010. (demo paper)

Towards Collaboratively Learning and Populating Ontologies for the Social-Semantic Web

Mathias Niepert

SIGWEB Newsletter, Spring 2010, ACM Press.

Leveraging Terminological Structure for Object Reconciliation

Jan Noessner, Mathias Niepert, Christian Meilicke, and Heiner Stuckenschmidt

In Proceedings of the 7th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC), Heraklion, Greece, Springer-Verlag, 2010. (best paper award)

Logical and Algorithmic Properties of Stable Conditional Independence

Mathias Niepert, Dirk Van Gucht, and Marc Gyssens

International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, Volume 51, Issue 5, pages 531-543, 2010.

From Encyclopedia to Ontology: Toward A Dynamic Representation of the Discipline of Philosophy

Cameron Buckner, Mathias Niepert, and Colin Allen

Synthese , Springer-Verlag, 2010.

Thesaurus Extension Using Web Search Engines

Robert Meusel, Mathias Niepert, Kai Eckert, and Heiner Stuckenschmidt

In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries (ICADL), Gold Coast, Australia, Springer-Verlag, 2010.

2009

Logical Inference Algorithms and Matrix Representations for Probabilistic Conditional Independence

Mathias Niepert

In Proceedings of the 25th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI), Montreal, Canada, pages 428-435, AUAI Press, 2009.

Working the Crowd: Design Principles and Early Lessons from the Social-Semantic Web

Mathias Niepert, Cameron Buckner, and Colin Allen

In Proceedings of the Workshop on Web 3.0: Merging Semantic Web and Social Web - (SW)^2 at ACM Hypertext, Turin, Italy, 2009.

2008

On the Conditional Independence Implication Problem: A Lattice-Theoretic Approach

Mathias Niepert, Dirk Van Gucht, and Marc Gyssens

In Proceedings of the 24th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI), Helsinki, Finland, pages 435-443, AUAI Press, 2008. (best student paper runner-up award)

The World is Not Flat: Expertise and InPhO

Colin Allen, Cameron Buckner, and Mathias Niepert

Selected papers from the Ninth Annual WebWise Conference. First Monday , Volume 13, Number 8, 2008.

2007

A Dynamic Ontology for a Dynamic Reference Work

Mathias Niepert, Cameron Buckner, and Colin Allen

In Proceedings of the 7th ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), Vancouver, British Columbia, pages 288-297, ACM Press, 2007.

Information reviewed 26 September 2026 · Author bibliography