David Rügamer

Contact

Institut für Statistik

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Ludwigstraße 33

D-80539 München

David.Ruegamer [at] stat.uni-muenchen.de

Thesis Supervision

I offer various topics for Master theses mainly but not exclusively on the topics listed below. If you are interested, please send me your field of interest or your ideas, a CV and your current transcript of records.

Research Interests

My main research interest lies in the combination of structured additive models and deep neural networks, scalable statistical modeling and uncertainty quantification in machine learning. You can find my research statement here. Other topics I work on / find interesting:

• Selective Inference
• Gradient Boosting
• Distributional Regression
• Transformation Models / Normalizing Flows
• Functional Data Analysis
• Time Series Analysis
• Survival Analysis
• Recommender Systems, Matrix and Tensor Factorization
• Optimization

News

News on my personal homepage

You Can Find me on

• GitHub
• ResearchGate
• Google Scholar

Software

• deepregression Semi-Structured Deep Distributional Regression on Github and CRAN
• selfmade SELective inference For Mixed and ADditive model Estimators on Github and CRAN (Examples)
• FDboost Boosting Functional Regression Models on CRAN and github
• cAIC4 Conditional Akaike Information Criterion for ‘lme4’ on CRAN and github
• iboost Inference for Model-based Boosting on github (Examples)
• coinflibs Conditional Inference after Likelihood-based Selection on github (Examples)
• effortless efficient operations on row-wise tensor product linked evaluations with special structures on github

References

1. Weber T, Ingrisch M, Bischl B, Rügamer D (2023) Cascaded Latent Diffusion Models for High-Resolution Chest X-ray Synthesis Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining: 27th Pacific-Asia Conference, PAKDD 2023,
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2. Pielok T, Bischl B, Rügamer D (2023) Approximate Bayesian Inference with Stein Functional Variational Gradient Descent International Conference on Learning Representations,
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3. Dorigatti E, Bischl B, Rügamer D (2023) Frequentist Uncertainty Quantification in Semi-Structured Neural Networks International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, PMLR.
4. Rügamer D, Kolb C, Klein N (2022) Semi-Structured Distributional Regression. The American Statistician.
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5. Kook L, Baumann PFM, Dürr O, Sick B, Rügamer D (2022) Estimating Conditional Distributions with Neural Networks using R package deeptrafo. arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.13665.
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6. Rügamer D, Baumann PFM, Kneib T, Hothorn T (2022) Probabilistic Time Series Forecasts with Autoregressive Transformation Models. Statistics & Computing.
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7. Rügamer D, Pfisterer F, Bischl B, Grün B (2022) Mixture of Experts Distributional Regression: Implementation Using Robust Estimation with Adaptive First-order Methods. arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.09875.
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8. Ott F, Rügamer D, Heublein L, Bischl B, Mutschler C (2022) Representation Learning for Tablet and Paper Domain Adaptation in favor of Online Handwriting Recognition MPRSS 2022,
9. Ziegler I, Ma B, Nie E, Bischl B, Rügamer D, Schubert B, Dorigatti E (2022) What cleaves? Is proteasomal cleavage prediction reaching a ceiling? NeurIPS 2022 Workshop on Learning Meaningful Representations of Life (LMRL),
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10. Kaiser P, Rügamer D, Kern C (2022) Uncertainty as a key to fair data-driven decision making NeurIPS 2022 Workshop on Trustworthy and Socially Responsible Machine Learning (TSRML),
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11. Rezaei M, Dorigatti E, Rügamer D, Bischl B (2022) Learning Statistical Representation with Joint Deep Embedded Clustering arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.05232,
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12. Schalk D, Bischl B, Rügamer D (2022) Privacy-Preserving and Lossless Distributed Estimation of High-Dimensional Generalized Additive Mixed Models. arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.07723.
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13. Weber T, Ingrisch M, Bischl B, Rügamer D (2022) Implicit Embeddings via GAN Inversion for High Resolution Chest Radiographs. MICCAI 2022, Medical Applications with Disentanglement.
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14. Ott F, Rügamer D, Heublein L, Hamann T, Barth J, Bischl B, Mutschler C (2022) Benchmarking Online Sequence-to-Sequence and Character-based Handwriting Recognition from IMU-Enhanced Pens. International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition (IJDAR).
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15. Schiele P, Berninger C, Rügamer D (2022) ARMA Cell: A Modular and Effective Approach for Neural Autoregressive Modeling. arXiv preprint arXiv:2208.14919.
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16. Schalk D, Bischl B, Rügamer D (2022) Accelerated Componentwise Gradient Boosting using Efficient Data Representation and Momentum-based Optimization. Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics.
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17. Rath K, Rügamer D, Bischl B, Toussaint U von, Rea C, Maris A, Granetz R, Albert C (2022) Data augmentation for disruption prediction via robust surrogate models. Journal of Plasma Physics.
18. Bothmann L, Strickroth S, Casalicchio G, Rügamer D, Lindauer M, Scheipl F, Bischl B (2022) Developing Open Source Educational Resources for Machine Learning and Data Science ECML 2022, Teaching Machine Learning,
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19. Mittermeier M, Weigert M, Rügamer D, Küchenhoff H, Ludwig R (2022) A Deep Learning Version of Hess & Brezowskys Classification of Großwetterlagen over Europe: Projection of Future Changes in a CMIP6 Large Ensemble. Environmental Research Letters.
20. Ott F, Rügamer D, Heublein L, Bischl B, Mutschler C (2022) Domain Adaptation for Time-Series Classification to Mitigate Covariate Shift ACM Multimedia,
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21. Rügamer D, Bender A, Wiegrebe S, Racek D, Bischl B, Müller C, Stachl C (2022) Factorized Structured Regression for Large-Scale Varying Coefficient Models Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML-PKDD), Springer International Publishing.
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22. Klaß A, Lorenz S, Lauer-Schmaltz M, Rügamer D, Bischl B, Mutschler C, Ott F (2022) Uncertainty-aware Evaluation of Time-Series Classification for Online Handwriting Recognition with Domain Shift IJCAI-ECAI 2022, 1st International Workshop on Spatio-Temporal Reasoning and Learning,
23. Fritz C, Nicola GD, Günther F, Rügamer D, Rave M, Schneble M, Bender A, Weigert M, Brinks R, Hoyer A, Berger U, Küchenhoff H, Kauermann G (2022) Challenges in Interpreting Epidemiological Surveillance Data - Experiences from Germany. Journal of Computational & Graphical Statistics.
24. Rügamer D (2022) Additive Higher-Order Factorization Machines. arXiv preprint arXiv:2205.14515.
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25. Rügamer D, Kolb C, Fritz C, Pfisterer F, Kopper P, Bischl B, Shen R, Bukas C, Sousa LB de Andrade e, Thalmeier D, Baumann P, Kook L, Klein N, Müller CL (2022) deepregression: a Flexible Neural Network Framework for Semi-Structured Deep Distributional Regression. Journal of Statistical Software (provisionally accepted).
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26. Liew BXW, Kovacs FM, Rügamer D, Royuela A (2022) Machine learning for prognostic modelling in individuals with non-specific neck pain. European Spine Journal.
27. Fritz C, Dorigatti E, Rügamer D (2022) Combining Graph Neural Networks and Spatio-temporal Disease Models to Predict COVID-19 Cases in Germany. Scientific Reports 12, 2045–2322.
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28. Rügamer D, Baumann P, Greven S (2022) Selective Inference for Additive and Mixed Models. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis 167, 107350.
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29. Ott F, Rügamer D, Heublein L, Bischl B, Mutschler C (2022) Cross-Modal Common Representation Learning with Triplet Loss Functions. arXiv preprint arXiv:2202.07901.
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30. Kopper P, Wiegrebe S, Bischl B, Bender A, Rügamer D (2022) DeepPAMM: Deep Piecewise Exponential Additive Mixed Models for Complex Hazard Structures in Survival Analysis Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, pp. 249–261. Springer International Publishing.
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31. Liew BXW, Rügamer D, Duffy K, Taylor M, Jackson J (2021) The mechanical energetics of walking across the adult lifespan. PloS one 16, e0259817.
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32. Mittermeier M, Weigert M, Rügamer D (2021) Identifying the atmospheric drivers of drought and heat using a smoothed deep learning approach. NeurIPS 2021, Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning.
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33. Weber T, Ingrisch M, Fabritius M, Bischl B, Rügamer D (2021) Survival-oriented embeddings for improving accessibility to complex data structures. NeurIPS 2021, Bridging the Gap: From Machine Learning Research to Clinical Practice.
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34. Weber T, Ingrisch M, Bischl B, Rügamer D (2021) Towards modelling hazard factors in unstructured data spaces using gradient-based latent interpolation. NeurIPS 2021, Deep Generative Models and Downstream Applications.
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35. Rügamer D, Baumann PFM, Kneib T, Hothorn T (2021) Transforming Autoregression: Interpretable and Expressive Time Series Forecast. arXiv:2110.08248 [cs, stat].
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36. Liew BXW, Rügamer D, Zhai XJ, Morris S, Netto K (2021) Comparing machine, deep, and transfer learning in predicting joint moments in running. Journal of Biomechanics.
37. Ott F, Rügamer D, Heublein L, Bischl B, Mutschler C (2021) Joint Classification and Trajectory Regression of Online Handwriting using a Multi-Task Learning Approach Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV),
38. Goschenhofer J, Hvingelby R, Rügamer D, Thomas J, Wagner M, Bischl B (2021) Deep Semi-Supervised Learning for Time Series Classification 20th IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA), pp. 1–6.
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39. Falla D, Devecchi V, Jimenez-Grande D, Rügamer D, Liew B (2021) Modern Machine Learning Approaches Applied in Spinal Pain Research. Journal of Electromyography and Kinesiology.
40. *Coors S, *Schalk D, Bischl B, Rügamer D (2021) Automatic Componentwise Boosting: An Interpretable AutoML System. ECML-PKDD Workshop on Automating Data Science.
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41. Berninger C, Stöcker A, Rügamer D (2021) A Bayesian Time-Varying Autoregressive Model for Improved Short- and Long-Term Prediction. Journal of Forecasting.
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42. Baumann PFM, Hothorn T, Rügamer D (2021) Deep Conditional Transformation Models Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases. Research Track, pp. 3–18. Springer International Publishing.
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43. Kopper P, Pölsterl S, Wachinger C, Bischl B, Bender A, Rügamer D (2021) Semi-Structured Deep Piecewise Exponential Models. In: In: Greiner R , In: Kumar N , In: Gerds TA , In: Schaar M van der (eds) Proceedings of AAAI Spring Symposium on Survival Prediction - Algorithms, Challenges, and Applications 2021, pp. 40–53. PMLR.
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44. Liew B, Lee HY, Rügamer D, Nunzio AMD, Heneghan NR, Falla D, Evans DW (2021) A novel metric of reliability in pressure pain threshold measurement. Scientific Reports (Nature).
45. Bender A, Rügamer D, Scheipl F, Bischl B (2021) A General Machine Learning Framework for Survival Analysis. In: In: Hutter F , In: Kersting K , In: Lijffijt J , In: Valera I (eds) Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases, pp. 158–173. Springer International Publishing.
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46. Rügamer D, Pfisterer F, Bischl B (2020) Neural Mixture Distributional Regression. arXiv:2010.06889 [cs, stat].
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47. Rügamer D, Greven S (2020) Inference for L2-Boosting. Statistics and Computing 30, 279–289.
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48. Liew BXW, Rügamer D, Stöcker A, De Nunzio AM (2020) Classifying neck pain status using scalar and functional biomechanical variables – development of a method using functional data boosting. Gait & Posture 75, 146–150.
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49. Liew B, Rügamer D, De Nunzio A, Falla D (2020) Interpretable machine learning models for classifying low back pain status using functional physiological variables. European Spine Journal 29, 1845–1859.
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50. Liew BXW, Rügamer D, Abichandani D, De Nunzio AM (2020) Classifying individuals with and without patellofemoral pain syndrome using ground force profiles – Development of a method using functional data boosting. Gait & Posture 80, 90–95.
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51. Liew BXW, Peolsson A, Rügamer D, Wibault J, Löfgren H, Dedering A, Zsigmond P, Falla D (2020) Clinical predictive modelling of post-surgical recovery in individuals with cervical radiculopathy – a machine learning approach. Scientific Reports.
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52. Brockhaus S, Rügamer D, Greven S (2020) Boosting Functional Regression Models with FDboost. Journal of Statistical Software 94, 1–50.
53. Rügamer D, Brockhaus S, Gentsch K, Scherer K, Greven S (2018) Boosting factor-specific functional historical models for the detection of synchronization in bioelectrical signals. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series C (Applied Statistics) 67, 621–642.
54. Rügamer D, Greven S (2018) Selective inference after likelihood-or test-based model selection in linear models. Statistics & Probability Letters 140, 7–12.
55. Säfken B, Rügamer D, Kneib T, Greven S (2018) Conditional model selection in mixed-effects models with caic4. to appear in the Journal of Statistical Software.
56. Brockhaus S, Rügamer D, Greven S (2017) Boosting Functional Regression Models with FDboost. to appear in the Journal of Statistical Software.
57. Klüser L, Holler PJ, Simak J, Tater G, Smets P, Rügamer D, Küchenhoff H, Wess G (2016) Predictors of sudden cardiac death in Doberman Pinschers with dilated cardiomyopathy. Journal of veterinary internal medicine 30, 722–732.
58. Gillhuber J, Rügamer D, Pfister K, Scheuerle MC (2014) Giardiosis and other enteropathogenic infections: a study on diarrhoeic calves in Southern Germany. BMC research notes 7, 112.