Gerrit Großmann
Dr. rer. nat., M. Sc., Postdoc at DFKI. Saarbrücken and Kaiserslautern. Germany.
Hello World! My name is Gerrit Großmann, welcome to my personal academic webpage! I work at the research department on Data Science and its Applications (DSA) (formerly Neuro-mechanistic Modeling) at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI).
Research Interests:
🤖💡 My research revolves around the question: How can we integrate the distinct realms of discrete structures such as graphs and networks with the continuous nature of dynamic evolution, diffusion, and learning?
🎲🕸️ I am developing numerical methods to analyze stochastic dynamical processes on complex networks. This research aims to understand how networks shape collective phenomena like epidemics and rumors.
🧪🧠 Additionally, in collaboration with the NextAid project, my focus is on geometric deep learning for molecules. In this area, probabilistic flow models offer an innovative approach to integrating geometric deep learning with stochastic processes. My current projects include advancing neuro-symbolic guidance of diffusion models, implementing semi-supervised learning on metabolic networks, exploring the expressiveness of message-passing architectures, and the development of non-parametric methods for network reconstruction.
Overview:
Short CV
Teaching
- Bridging the Gap - Language Models and Structured Knowledge in AI (SoSe 24)
- Advanced Topics in Diffusion Modeling: From Theory to Implementation (WS 23/23)
- AI for the Social Good (SoSe 23)
- Deep Generative Diffusion Models (WS 22/23)
- Deep Learning for Drug Discovery (SoSe 22)
- Concurrent Programming (SoSe 21)
- Exploring Graph Neural Networks (SoSe 21)
- Statistics Lab (SoSe 20)
- Exploring Complex Network Dynamics (WS 19/20)
- Probabilistic Models and Data Analysis (SoSe 19)
- Ringvorlesung: Perspektiven der Informatik (WS 18/19)
- Probabilistic Models of Concurrency (WS 18/19)
- Pattern and Speech Recognition
Opinion Pieces and Tutorials
- I contributed to the deep learning for computer-aided drug design tutorial (T033 - T038) series.
- 7 Reasons Not to Use ODEs for Epidemic Modeling
- Der Nutzen von Corona-Modellen bleibt ungeklärt (The usefulness of corona models remains uncertain), Saarbrücker Zeitung; Feb., 4th, 2022
(Co-)Supervised Students
2024
Magnus Cunow
Bachelor's thesis
2024
Nesara Belakere Lingarajaiah
Master's thesis
2023
Janine Lohse
Research Immersion Lab
2023
Joshgun Guliyev
Master's thesis
2022
Yan Yan Lau
Bachelor's thesis
2021
Julian Zimmerlin
Bachelor's thesis
2020
Lisa Heidmann
Bachelor's thesis
2020
Jonas Klesen
Research Immersion Lab
Theses
Lumping the Approximate Master Equation for Stochastic Processes on Complex Networks
Master’s Thesis
Avaliable upon request or at Campus-Bibliothek.
Efficient Computation of Likelihoods in Large Markov Models
Bachelor’s Thesis
Avaliable upon request or at Campus-Bibliothek.
Publications
Elucidating the Relationship Between Transformers and GNNs
J. Groß, G. Großmann, V. Wolf
Preprint, 2023
Birth-Death Processes Reproduce the Epidemic Footprint
G. Großmann, M. Backenköhler
Extended Abstract at Complex Networks Conference, 2022
Abstraction-Guided Truncations for Stationary Distributions of Markov Population Models
M. Backenköhler, L. Bortolussi, G. Großmann, V. Wolf
Quantitative Evaluation of Systems Conference (QEST), 2021
Epidemic Overdispersion Strengthens the Effectiveness of Mobility Restrictions
G. Großmann, M. Backenköhler, V. Wolf
Poster Abstract, 24th International Conference on Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control (HSCC), 2021
Analysis of Markov Jump Processes under Terminal Constraints
M. Backenköhler, L. Bortolussi, G. Großmann, V. Wolf
Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems Conference (TACAS), 2021
Learning Vaccine Allocation from Simulations
G. Großmann, M. Backenköhler, J. Klesen, V. Wolf
The 9th International Conference on Complex Networks and their Applications, 2020
Importance of Interaction Structure and Stochasticity for Epidemic Spreading: A COVID-19 Case Study
G. Großmann, M. Backenköhler, V. Wolf
Quantitative Evaluation of Systems Conference (QEST), 2020
Rejection-Based Simulation of Non-Markovian Agents on Complex Networks
G. Großmann, L. Bortolussi, V. Wolf
The 8th International Conference on Complex Networks and their Applications, 2019
Rejection-Based Simulation of Non-Markovian Agents on Complex Networks
G. Großmann, V. Wolf
6th International Workshop on Hybrid Systems Biology (HSB), 2019
Lumping of Degree-Based Mean Field and Pair Approximation Equations for Multi-State Contact Processes
C. Kyriakopoulos, G. Großmann, V. Wolf, L. Bortolussi
PHYSICAL REVIEW E, 2019
