About me
I am Marc Fischer, a PhD student at the Department of Computer Science, ETH Zürich. I am part of the Secure, Reliable, and Intelligent Systems Lab, supervised by Martin Vechev, since March 2019.
Education
ETH Zurich, September 2013 – February 2019: B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Computer Science
Awards
| 2019 | ETH Medal for Outstanding Master Thesis | Awarded | 
Publications
2025
        Gaussian Loss Smoothing Enables Certified Training with Tight Convex Relaxations
        
          
    
    
    
  Stefan Balauca, Mark Niklas Müller, Yuhao Mao, Maximilian Baader, Marc Fischer, Martin Vechev
        
        
          
      TMLR 
      2025 
      
      
      
    
        
      2024
        Prompt Sketching for Large Language Models
        
          
    
    
    
  Luca Beurer-Kellner, Mark Niklas Müller, Marc Fischer, Martin Vechev
        
        
          
      ICML 
      2024 
      
      
      
    
        
      
        Guiding LLMs The Right Way: Fast, Non-Invasive Constrained Generation
        
          
    
    
    
  Luca Beurer-Kellner, Marc Fischer, Martin Vechev
        
        
          
      ICML 
      2024 
      
      
      
    
        
      
        Understanding Certified Training with Interval Bound Propagation
        
          
    
    
    
  Yuhao Mao, Mark Niklas Müller, Marc Fischer, Martin Vechev
        
        
          
      ICLR 
      2024 
      
      
      
    
        
      
        Controlled Text Generation via Language Model Arithmetic
        
          
    
    
    
  Jasper Dekoninck, Marc Fischer, Luca Beurer-Kellner, Martin Vechev
        
        
          
      ICLR 
      2024 
      
      
        Spotlight
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       Spotlight
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        Evading Data Contamination Detection for Language Models is (too) Easy
        
          
    
    
    
  Jasper Dekoninck, Mark Niklas Müller, Maximilian Baader, Marc Fischer, Martin Vechev
        
        
          
      arXiv 
      2024 
      
      
      
    
        
      2023
        Automated Classification of Model Errors on ImageNet
        
          
    
    
    
  Momchil Peychev*, Mark Niklas Müller*, Marc Fischer, Martin Vechev
        
        
          
      NeurIPS 
      2023 
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        Connecting Certified and Adversarial Training
        
          
    
    
    
  Yuhao Mao, Mark Niklas Müller, Marc Fischer, Martin Vechev
        
        
          
      NeuIPS 
      2023 
      
      
      
    
        
      
        LMQL Chat: Scripted Chatbot Development
        
          
    
    
    
  Luca Beurer-Kellner*,  Marc Fischer*, Martin Vechev
        
        
          
      Neural Conversational AI Workshop, TEACH -- ICML 
      2023 
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        Large Language Models are Zero-Shot Multi-Tool Users
        
          
    
    
    
  Luca Beurer-Kellner*,  Marc Fischer*, Martin Vechev
        
        
          
      Knowlege and Logical Reasoning Workshop -- ICML 
      2023 
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        Abstract Interpretation of Fixpoint Iterators with Applications to Neural Networks
        
          
    
    
    
  Mark Niklas Müller, Marc Fischer, Robin Staab, Martin Vechev
        
        
          
      PLDI 
      2023 
      
      
      
    
        
      
        Prompting Is Programming: A Query Language for Large Language Models
        
          
    
    
    
  Luca Beurer-Kellner, Marc Fischer, Martin Vechev
        
        
          
      PLDI 
      2023 
      
      
      
    
        
      
        Efficient Certified Training and Robustness Verification of Neural ODEs
        
          
    
    
    
  Mustafa Zeqiri, Mark Niklas Müller, Marc Fischer, Martin Vechev
        
        
          
      ICLR 
      2023 
      
      
      
    
        
      
        Certified Training: Small Boxes are All You Need
        
          
    
    
    
  Mark Niklas Müller*, Franziska Eckert*, Marc Fischer, Martin Vechev
        
        
          
      ICLR 
      2023 
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        Spotlight
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       Spotlight
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    2022
        (De-)Randomized Smoothing for Decision Stump Ensembles
        
          
    
    
    
  Miklós Z. Horváth*, Mark Niklas Müller*, Marc Fischer, Martin Vechev
        
        
          
      NeurIPS 
      2022 
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        Private and Reliable Neural Network Inference
        
          
    
    
    
  Nikola Jovanović, Marc Fischer, Samuel Steffen, Martin Vechev
        
        
          
      ACM CCS 
      2022 
      
      
      
    
        
      
        Shared Certificates for Neural Network Verification
        
          
    
    
    
  Marc Fischer*, Christian Sprecher*, Dimitar I. Dimitrov, Gagandeep Singh, Martin Vechev
        
        
          
      CAV 
      2022 
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        Robust and Accurate - Compositional Architectures for Randomized Smoothing
        
          
    
    
    
  Miklós Z. Horváth, Mark Niklas Müller, Marc Fischer, Martin Vechev
        
        
          
      SRML@ICLR 
      2022 
      
      
      
    
        
      
        Boosting Randomized Smoothing with Variance Reduced Classifiers
        
          
    
    
    
  Miklós Z. Horváth, Mark Niklas Müller, Marc Fischer, Martin Vechev
        
        
          
      ICLR 
      2022 
      
      
        Spotlight
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       Spotlight
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    2021
        Scalable Certified Segmentation via Randomized Smoothing
        
          
    
    
    
  Marc Fischer, Maximilian Baader,  Martin Vechev
        
        
          
      ICML 
      2021 
      
      
      
    
        
      2020
        Learning Certified Individually Fair Representations
        
          
    
    
    
  Anian Ruoss, Mislav Balunović, Marc Fischer, Martin Vechev
        
        
          
      NeurIPS 
      2020 
      
      
      
    
        
      
        Certified Defense to Image Transformations via Randomized Smoothing
        
          
    
    
    
  Marc Fischer, Maximilian Baader,  Martin Vechev
        
        
          
      NeurIPS 
      2020 
      
      
      
    
        
      2019
        Online Robustness Training for Deep Reinforcement Learning
        
          
    
    
    
  Marc Fischer, Matthew Mirman, Steven Stalder, Martin Vechev
        
        
          
      arXiv 
      2019 
      
      
      
    
        
      
        DL2: Training and Querying Neural Networks with Logic
        
          
    
    
    
  Marc Fischer, Mislav Balunović, Dana Drachsler-Cohen, Timon Gehr, Ce Zhang, Martin Vechev
        
        
          
      ICML 
      2019 
      
      
      
    
        
      2018
        Robust Relational Layouts Synthesis from Examples for Android
        
          
    
    
    
  Pavol Bielik, Marc Fischer, Martin Vechev
        
        
          
      ACM OOPSLA 
      2018 
      
      
      
    
        
      