SML group at ETH

Department of Computer Science, ETH Zurich.

Welcome to the website of the Statistical Machine Learning group at ETH Zurich!

We are a group of curious minds from different parts of the world who study exciting questions in the intersection of statistics and machine learning. On a high level, we like to develop theoretical understanding for methodological advancements and vice versa.

Most projects in our group revolve around trustworthy modern machine learning including robust inference against attacks during training and test time, generalization of overparameterized models, as well as questions arising around sample-efficient causal inference and privacy preservation of sensitive data. We are also exploring the fundamental limits, methodologies and trade-offs between different notions of trustworthiness such as (train and test-time) robustness, privacy and fairness. Please have a look at our recent papers to get a better sense for our research interests.

news

Dec 3, 2025 Fanny just gave talks on our recent paper sample complexity of multi-objective learning in Cambridge and MBZUAI Abu Dhabi. We are also presenting this work and our recent work on boosting randomized trials with external data/foundation models at EurIPS and NeurIPS!
Oct 27, 2025 Konstantin and Daniil have done a great job defending their PhD theses and are off to their new adventures at Isomorphic Labs and UPenn! We wish them the best of luck!
Jan 23, 2025 All of our three recent submissions got accepted at the 2025 editions of AISTATS and ICLR: towards better copyright protection, on doubly-robust treatment effect identification using multiple environments and multi-objective learning in high dimensions!
Dec 9, 2024 Many of us spent some time this semester at the Simons Institute Berkeley, participating in the Long-term program Modern Paradigms in Generalization, where Fanny gave a tutorial on benign overfitting and a talk on robust mixture learning with large outlier proportion. She was also the workshop chair of the final workshop Unknown Futures of Generalization with a panel on the future of scientific research in the age of AI and a debate on how scaling current LLMs could be enough to prove open math conjectures.
Jul 23, 2024 Andrii, Alex and Nicolo all successfully defended their PhD thesis in the last half year with flying colors. We wish them all the best for their future endeavors!