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Michal B. Bednarczyk
dblp:401/7748
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2025
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Artificial intelligence
1 paper |
Deep learning architectures and training · 100% | |
| Theoretical computer science
1 paper |
Mathematical optimization · 100% |
Topics — the 2 heaviest of 2, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Machine learning › Deep learning architectures and training › differentiable programming
differentiable sorting and ranking |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | LapSum - One Method to Differentiate Them All: Ranking, Sorting and Top-k Selection · ICML 2025 |
Mathematical optimization › optimization for machine learning
differentiable optimization |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | LapSum - One Method to Differentiate Them All: Ranking, Sorting and Top-k Selection · ICML 2025 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
laplace distribution · 1.7CUDA · 1.7
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | LapSum - One Method to Differentiate Them All: Ranking, Sorting and Top-k SelectionabstractWe present a novel technique for constructing differentiable order-type operations, including soft ranking, soft top-k selection, and soft permutations. Our approach leverages an efficient closed-form formula for the inverse of the function LapSum, defined as the sum of Laplace distributions. This formulation ensures low computational and memory complexity in selecting the highest activations, enabling losses and gradients to be computed in $O(n \log n)$ time. Through extensive experiments, we demonstrate that our method outperforms state-of-the-art techniques for high-dimensional vectors and large $k$ values. Furthermore, we provide efficient implementations for both CPU and CUDA environments, underscoring the practicality and scalability of our method for large-scale ranking and differentiable ordering problems. Lukasz Struski, Michal B. Bednarczyk, Igor T. Podolak, Jacek Tabor |
ICML | 2 |