Roger Wattenhofer
Full Professor
Leads the Distributed Computing group, currently focusing on graph neural networks and algorithm learning alongside distributed systems and blockchain research.
Roger Wattenhofer's lab at ETH Zurich works on graph learning and distributed, cloud & edge systems. 212 papers since 2023, 8 at top venues, mostly Interspeech and AAAI. 14 PhD students. 56 alumni.
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 55/ year
- at T1 venues
- 4%
- PhD students
- 14
- MS students
- 0
- alumni listed
- 56
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 40 papers2026 · T1 5 · collecting
- 65 papers2025 · T1 1
- 54 papers2024 · T1 1
- 53 papers2023 · T1 1
T1 venuesOtherVenues: Interspeech, AAAI, ICLR, KDD, Nature Machine Intelligence
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Graph learning43 papers
- Distributed, cloud & edge systems8 papers
- distributed6 papers
- currently0 papers
- distributed computing0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
202640 papers
- ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA), Vancouver, CanadaA Deterministic Polylogarithmic Competitive Algorithm for Matching with Delays (opens in a new tab)
- TMLR (T1)A Survey on the Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus (The paper was awarded the Survey Certificate by TMLR.) (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Barcelona, Catalonia, SpainAdapting Neural Audio Codecs to EEG (opens in a new tab)
- Forty-Third International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), Seoul, South KoreaAlignment-Aware Decoding (opens in a new tab)
- Emerging LLM/LMM Applications in Medical Imaging (ELAMI@MICCAI), Strasbourg, FranceAuthority-Preserving Evaluation of Medical Vision-Language Assistants (Oral) (opens in a new tab)
- Workshop on Geometry-grounded Representation Learning and Generative Modeling (GRaM@ICLR), Rio de Janeiro, BrazilAutoregressive Frontier Expansion: Growing Trees with Graph Machine Learning (opens in a new tab)
- Machine Learning for Audio Workshop @ ICML, Seoul, South KoreaAutoregressive Zero-Shot Voice Conversion (Oral) (opens in a new tab)
- Machine Learning for Audio Workshop @ ICML, Seoul, South KoreaBenchmarking Diarization Models (opens in a new tab)
- KDD (T1)Benchmarking Positional Encodings for GNNs and Graph Transformers (opens in a new tab)
- International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC), Rome, ItalyBrief Announcement: Optimal Adaptive Multi-Valued Byzantine Agreement (opens in a new tab)
- Machine Learning for Audio Workshop @ ICML, Seoul, South KoreaCinematic Source Separation with Dialogue-Driven Sidechain Ducking (opens in a new tab)
- Third International AI Governance Workshop (AIGOV@AAAI), SingaporeData Attribution in Large Language Models via Bidirectional Gradient Optimization (oral) (opens in a new tab)
202565 papers
- New Perspectives in Graph Machine Learning Workshop at NeurIPS, San Diego, USAA New Perspective for Graph Learning Architecture Design: Linearize Your Depth Away (opens in a new tab)
- The Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Vienna, AustriaACORD: An Expert-Annotated Retrieval Dataset for Legal Contract Drafting (opens in a new tab)
- Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS), Iasi, RomaniaAsynchronous Approximate Agreement with Quadratic Communication (Best theory paper award) (opens in a new tab)
- The International Winter Conference on Brain-Computer Interface, Gangwon, South KoreaAutomated Feature Engineering for Single-Trial EEG and Eye-Tracking Classification in Predictive Text Interfaces (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Hyderabad, indiaBenchmarking Music Generation Models and Metrics via Human Preference Studies (opens in a new tab)
- Workshop on Neural Reasoning and Mathematical Discovery (NEURMAD@AAAI25), Philadelphia, USABeyond Interpolation: Extrapolative Reasoning with Reinforcement Learning and Graph Neural Networks (opens in a new tab)
- AI for Music Workshop @ NeurIPS, San Diego, California, USABias beyond Borders: Global Inequalities in AI-Generated Music (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Hyderabad, IndiaBLAP: Bootstrapping Language-Audio Pre-training for Music Captioning (Oral at NeurIPS 2024 Audio Imagination workshop) (opens in a new tab)
- International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC), Berlin, GermanyBrief Announcement: Asynchronous Approximate Agreement with Quadratic Communication (opens in a new tab)
- ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC), Huatulco, MexicoBrief Announcement: Extending Asynchronous Byzantine Agreement with Crusader Agreement (opens in a new tab)
- International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC), Berlin, GermanyBrief Announcement: From Few to Many Faults: Adaptive Byzantine Agreement with Optimal Communication (opens in a new tab)
- ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC), Huatulco, MexicoBrief Announcement: Towards Round-Optimal Approximate Agreement on Trees (opens in a new tab)
202454 papers
- ACM International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS), Kyoto, JapanAccurate Computation of the Logarithm of Modified Bessel Functions on GPUs (opens in a new tab)
- International Joint Conference on Theoretical Computer Science - Frontier of Algorithmic Wisdom (IJTCS-FAW), Hong Kong SAR, ChinaActive Learning Supported Iterative Combinatorial Auctions (opens in a new tab)
- Visualization & Visual Analytics (IEEE VIS), St. Pete Beach, Florida, USAAEye: A Visualization Tool for Image Datasets (opens in a new tab)
- Blockchain: Research and ApplicationsAnalyzing Voting Power in Decentralized Governance: Who controls DAOs? (opens in a new tab)
- International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR), San Francisco, California, USAAudio Atlas: Visualizing and Exploring Audio Datasets (Extended Abstract) (opens in a new tab)
- ACM/IFIP International Middleware Conference, Hong Kong, ChinaBanyan: Fast Rotating Leader BFT (Best paper award) (opens in a new tab)
- The Fourth International Workshop on Smart Data for Blockchain and Distributed Ledger (SDBD@KDD), Barcelona, SpainBenchmarking GNNs Using Lightning Network Data (oral presentation) (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE International Conference on Computers, Software, and Applications (COMPSAC), Osaka, JapanBreaking reCAPTCHAv2 (opens in a new tab)
- Workshop on practical ML for limited/low resource settings (PML4LRS@ICLR), Vienna, AustriaBridging Diversity and Uncertainty in Active learning with Self-Supervised Pre-Training (opens in a new tab)
- ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC), Nantes, FranceBrief Announcement: Communication-Optimal Convex Agreement (opens in a new tab)
- International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC), Madrid, SpainBrief Announcement: Unifying Partial Synchrony (opens in a new tab)
- ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS), SingaporeByzantine Fault-Tolerant Aggregate Signatures (opens in a new tab)
202353 papers
- International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS), Tokyo, JapanA Fair and Resilient Decentralized Clock Network for Transaction Ordering (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) WorkshopsAbstract Visual Reasoning Enabled by Language (opens in a new tab)
- International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), Kigali, RwandaAgent-Based Graph Neural Networks (opens in a new tab)
- International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), Vancouver, CanadaAn Interpretable and Attention-based Method for Gaze Estimation Using Electroencephalography (opens in a new tab)
- International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), Macau, ChinaAutomating Rigid Origami Design (Best paper in AI&Arts track) (opens in a new tab)
- International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC), L’Aquila, ItalyBase Fee Manipulation In Ethereum’s EIP-1559 Transaction Fee Mechanism (opens in a new tab)
- Conference on Advances in Financial Technologies (AFT), Princeton, NJ, USABatching Trades on Automated Market Makers (opens in a new tab)
- Conversations at Art Basel, Basel, SwitzerlandCo-Creating with AI: The Artist View (Panel discussion) (opens in a new tab)
- International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), London, United KingdomComputing the Best Policy That Survives a Vote (opens in a new tab)
- International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), Kigali, RwandaDAVA: Disentangling Adversarial Variational Autoencoder (opens in a new tab)
- Workshop on Decentralized Finance (DeFi), Bol, Brač, CroatiaDecentralized Finance (DeFi) Auditing: Mechanisms, Effectiveness, and User Perceptions (opens in a new tab)
- International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), London, United KingdomDeep Learning-Powered Iterative Combinatorial Auctions with Active Learning (Extended Abstract) (opens in a new tab)
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