Kolja Bauer

I'm an ELLIS PhD student at the CompVis group @ LMU Munich, advised by Björn Ommer (LMU) and Peter Kontschieder (Meta). My research focuses on large-scale generative models and their emergent representations.

Prior to my PhD, I spent six month as an ML research intern at Torc Robotics, working with Nick Schneider and Julian Ost.

I obtained my Bachelor's and Master's degree in Computer Science with a focus on Machine Learning from KIT.

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Updates

  • February 2026 First-author paper on motion reasoning (coming soon) accepted to CVPR
  • February 2025 First-author paper on noise-free diffusion features (CleanDIFT) accepted to CVPR (as an Oral)
  • October 2024 I started my PhD as an ELLIS student in the CompVis lab @ LMU Munich.

Research
CleanDIFT: Diffusion Features without Noise
Nick Stracke*, Stefan Andreas Baumann*, Kolja Bauer*, Frank Fundel, Björn Ommer
CVPR, 2025 (Oral)
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Better diffusion features by eliminating the need to add noise.


This website is based on Jon Barron's website, whose code is available on GitHub.