2026
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Berker Demirel*, Clémentine Dominé*, Valentino Maiorca, Marco Fumero, Marco Mondelli, Francesco Locatello
arXiv:2609.35288 · Preprint
Anti-collapse objectives applied after the projector can leave the backbone low-rank. SACReg, motivated by an analysis of λ-balance in linear networks, regularizes the backbone directly; λ-JEPA improves over LeJEPA and VISReg on ImageNet-1k and over V-JEPA 2 on video benchmarks.
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Berker Demirel, Valentino Maiorca, Marco Fumero, Theofanis Karaletsos, Francesco Locatello
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems · NeurIPS 2026
A post-hoc, per-sample trust score for conditional generations that needs only the training distribution: global realism plus attribute-wise faithfulness. It supports filtering, ranking, and abstention, even before full decoding.
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Berker Demirel, Marco Fumero, Theofanis Karaletsos, Francesco Locatello
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems · NeurIPS 2026
A diffusion model for fluorescent microscopy that generates all Cell Painting channels jointly, across cell types and perturbations, with an alignment loss to OpenPhenom embeddings that preserves organelle-level structure.
2025
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Berker Demirel, Marco Fumero, Francesco Locatello
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems · NeurIPS 2025
ORA scores a feature by the angle between it and its projection onto the decision boundaries, measured from the mean of in-distribution features. It is model-agnostic, hyperparameter-free, scale-invariant, and lets scores from several models be summed.
2024
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Berker Demirel, Lingjing Kong, Kun Zhang, Theofanis Karaletsos, Celestine Mendler-Dünner, Francesco Locatello
arXiv:2410.04499 · Preprint
A modular approach to performative label shift for pretrained backbones: it adapts a model before the shift and anticipates how different models would shift the distribution, enabling informed model selection and zero-shot transfer across backbone updates.
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Berker Demirel, Huseyin Ozkan
IEEE International Conference on Image Processing · ICIP 2024
Group activity recognition from a single RGB frame, with an attention-pooling visual branch and a coordinate branch over actor boxes, plus a systematic re-annotation of the Volleyball dataset.
2023
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Berker Demirel, Erchan Aptoula, Huseyin Ozkan
arXiv:2308.06624 · Preprint
Domain generalization that keeps domain-specific features alongside domain-invariant ones through an additive disentanglement, with a latent-space remix augmentation that mixes samples across domains.
2020
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Berker Demirel, Arda Asik, Bugra Demir, Kamer Kaya, Baris Batuhan Topal
IEEE Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference · SIU 2020
Node rankings from degree, closeness centrality, clustering coefficient, and PageRank guide greedy coloring to substantially better colorings; an RL extension with a parallel C++ backend.
Projects
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Berker Demirel
A re-implementation of Andrej Karpathy's nanoGPT, designed to be simpler and easier to update, evaluated on Tiny Shakespeare.
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Berker Demirel
Uniform Manifold Approximation and Projection implemented from scratch, with experiments on MNIST and Load Digits.
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Berker Demirel, Naci Ege Sarac
Course project
Parallel implementations of direction-optimized BFS on CPU (OpenMP) and GPU (CUDA).
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