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Sebastian U Stich
Faculty, CISPA Helmholtz Center
Joined
September 2018
Names
Sebastian U Stich
(Preferred)
,
Sebastian U. Stich
,
Sebastian Urban Stich
Emails
****@epfl.ch
(Confirmed)
,
****@stichmail.ch
(Confirmed)
,
****@gmail.com
(Confirmed)
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****@cispa.de
(Confirmed)
Personal Links
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Career & Education History
Faculty
CISPA Helmholtz Center
(cispa.de)
2025
–
Present
Tenure Track Faculty
CISPA Helmholtz Center
(cispa.de)
2021
–
2025
Postdoc
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne
(epfl.ch)
2016
–
2021
Postdoc
UCL
(uclouvain.be)
2014
–
2016
PhD student
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
(ethz.ch)
2010
–
2014
Advisors, Relations & Conflicts
PhD Advisee
Xiaowen Jiang
2023
–
Present
PhD Advisee
Yuan Gao
2023
–
Present
PhD Advisee
Anastasia Koloskova
2018
–
2024
Postdoc Advisor
Martin Jaggi
2016
–
2021
Postdoc Advisor
Yurii Nesterov
2014
–
2016
PhD Advisor
Bernd Gärtner
2010
–
2014
Expertise
optimization
Present
federated learning
Present
distributed training
Present
collaborative learning
Present
Publications
Accelerated Distributed Optimization with Compression and Error Feedback
Yuan Gao
,
Anton Rodomanov
,
Jeremy Rack
,
Sebastian U Stich
AISTATS 2026 Poster
Readers:
Everyone
DADA: Dual Averaging with Distance Adaptation
Mohammad Moshtaghifar
,
Anton Rodomanov
,
Daniil Vankov
,
Sebastian U Stich
ICLR 2026 Poster
Readers:
Everyone
Composite Optimization with Error Feedback: the Dual Averaging Approach
Yuan Gao
,
Anton Rodomanov
,
Jeremy Rack
,
Sebastian U Stich
ICLR 2026 Poster
Readers:
Everyone
Sequential Subspace Noise Injection Prevents Accuracy Collapse in Certified Unlearning
Dolgova Polina
,
Sebastian U Stich
Submitted to ICLR 2026
Readers:
Everyone
Collaborative Unpaired Multimodal Learning for Image Classification
Akansh Maurya
,
Rotem Mulayoff
,
Sebastian U Stich
Submitted to ICLR 2026
Readers:
Everyone
Revisiting the Effect of Topologies on Decentralized SGD
Yuki Takezawa
,
Anastasia Koloskova
,
Sebastian U Stich
Submitted to ICLR 2026
Readers:
Everyone
On the Stability of Nonlinear Dynamics in GD and SGD: Beyond Quadratic Potentials
Rotem Mulayoff
,
Sebastian U Stich
Submitted to ICLR 2026
Readers:
Everyone
Non-Convex Federated Optimization under Cost-Aware Client Selection
Xiaowen Jiang
,
Anton Rodomanov
,
Sebastian U Stich
ICLR 2026 Oral
Readers:
Everyone
Monotone Near-Zero-Sum Games: A Generalization of Convex-Concave Minimax
Ruichen Luo
,
Sebastian U Stich
,
Krishnendu Chatterjee
ICLR 2026 Poster
Readers:
Everyone
FedMuon: Federated Learning with Bias-corrected LMO-based Optimization
Yuki Takezawa
,
Anastasia Koloskova
,
Xiaowen Jiang
,
Sebastian U Stich
ICLR 2026 Poster
Readers:
Everyone
View all 191 publications
Co-Authors
Adrià Gascón
Advait Gadhikar
Ahmad Ajalloeian
Akansh Maurya
Akshay Dodwadmath
Aleksandr Beznosikov
Aleksandra Korolova
Alex Ingerman
Alexander Gasnikov
Alexander V. Gasnikov
Ali Dadras
Ali Zindari
Alp Yurtsever
Ameet Talwalkar
Amirkeivan Mohtashami
Ananda Theertha Suresh
Anant Raj
Anastasia Koloskova
Andrea Dittadi
Andrew Hard
Angelia Nedich
Anton Rodomanov
Antonious M. Girgis
Arjun Nitin Bhagoji
Aurélien Bellet
View all 195 co-authors