Marvin Koß

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Education

  • 2008-2016 High School, Gymnasium Oedeme, Lüneburg, Abiturnote 2.1
  • 2016-2017 Universität Siegen, Computer Science, towards B.S. transferred to Heidelberg University
  • since 2017 Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Computational Linguistics, towards B.A. curr. GPA 1.3
  • 2022-2024 Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Mathematics, B.Sc. GPA 2.1

Academic Employment

  • Webmaster at ICL, (04/19-04/20). Tasks: Website Maintenance, Development of HCH19 site
  • Research Assistant at CSG, ZITI, (11/20-10/22). Tasks: Development of a tool for Neural Network Quantization in the DeepChip Project; UQ using BNNs (slides)
  • Research Assistant at IWR, (01/23-09/23), 80h. Tasks: Analyzing a Novel Particle-Based Optimizer from a Mean-Field Perspective (Preprint)
  • Research Assistant at IWR, (04/24-09/24), 80h. Tasks: Developing a Novel Particle-Based Optimizer (code)
  • Research Assistant at IWR, (11/24-04/25). Tasks: Proofreading graduate level lecture notes.
  • Research Assistant at ICL, (11/24-?). Tasks: Developing a Membership-Inference-Attack-Proof Time Series Forecasting Algorithm.

Publications

  • On the mean field limit of consensus based methods. (Preprint)

Academic Teaching

  • (TA) Formal Mathematical Foundations for Computational Linguists, SS 2018. Tasks: Convey mathematical basics and proof techniques to students and grade exercises
  • (TA) Formal and Computational Semantics, WS 2018. Tasks: Give tutorials, create python assignments, give some lectures, grade exercises

Other Employment

  • Working Student at Sovanta, (01/23-04/23). Tasks: Extending an Image-to-Text Pipeline
  • Private Tutor at Lerncenter HD, (09/23-07/24). Tasks: Math Coaching

Volunteer Work

  • At the Heidelberg CoLi Fachschaft
  • Helper at ESSLLI 2018, Bulgaria

Languages

  • German (Native)
  • English (Fluent; C1)
  • Russian (Basics)

Programming Languages

  • Python: 7 years of Experience numpy, pytorch, pyro, sklearn, keras, spaCy, nltk, tensorflow, HF transformers
  • C++: Basic Knowledge (example project)
  • SQL: Basic Knowledge
  • Java: Basic Knowledge

Example Coursework Projects

  • B.Sc. Thesis: Mean-field Particle Swarm Optimization (PDF). Supervisor: JProf. Dr. Jakob Zech
  • B.A. Thesis: Extended Key-Value Retrieval Networks (code). Supervisor: Prof. Dr. A. Sokolov
  • Project: Pragmatic Modelling Of Utterances Using First Order Logic Semantic Representations (code). Supervisor: Dr. M. Herweg
  • Project: Hierarchical Dirichlet Processes for WSI. Supervisors: Dr. V. Nastase, Dr. M. Herweg

Side Projects

  • Modular LLM-powered Home Assistant (code 1, code 2)
  • Pragmatics Workshops Workshops based on problang.org using my pyro implementation; intro slides, politeness slides

Academic Interests

  • Narratives and how they connect reinforcement learning and linguistics (post)
  • AI Alignment How can we align AGI with our values?
  • Uncertainty Quantification e.g. in BNNs
  • Mean Field Analyses of Particle Systems