Martin Sedlacek

ELLIS PhD in robotics and vision at CIIRC CTU in Prague

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CIIRC CTU, B-642

Jugoslávských partyzánů 1580/3, 160 00

Prague, Czech Republic

I'm a first year student in the ELLIS PhD programme co-advised by Josef Sivic (CIIRC) and Cordelia Schmid (INRIA Paris) working on robot learning and computer vision. I currently focus on generalization capabilities of VLAs - see our recent (not yet published) benchmarking work - REALM.

Previously, I completed the MSc in AI at the University of Amsterdam awarded with the "Cum Laude" distinction and received ELLIS Honours Research scholarship. I also worked as a Software Engineer at Palantir, Amazon, and Goldman Sachs for more than 4 years. While at Goldman Sachs, I was part of a degree apprenticeship, studying for a BSc in Computer Science at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) with full funding, and received the EECS Final Year Prize (top 5% in the EECS department).

News

01/09/2025 Started as an ELLIS PhD at CIIRC in Prague working with Josef, Vladimir, and Cordelia.
15/06/2025 Graduated Cum Laude with an MSc. in AI from UvA.
01/09/2024 Accepted to the ELLIS Honours Research Fellowship co-advised by Josef Sivic and Cees Snoek focusing on generalization in VLAs.
17/07/2024 Blogpost on consistency models for molecular structure prediction accepted to the GRaM Workshop at ICML 2024.
28/05/2024 Reproducibility study accepted to MLRC'23@NeurIPS and jointly published in TMLR.

Selected publications

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    Equivariant Diffusion for Molecule Generation in 3D using Consistency Models
    Martin Sedlacek*  Antonis Vozikis*,  Patrik Bartak,  Luke Cadigan, and  Mohan Guo
    ICML GRaM Workshop (Blogpost Track), 2024
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    Reproducibility study of "LICO: Explainable Models with Language-Image Consistency"
    Luan Fletcher*,   Robert van der Klis*,  Martin Sedlacek*,  Stefan Vasilev*, and  Christos Athanasiadis
    TMLR (+MLRC@NeurIPS), 2024