Mona Schirmer

About Me

Intro  Hi! I’m an ELLIS PhD student at the Amsterdam Machine Learning Lab, supervised by Eric Nalisnick and co-supervised by Dan Zhang.

Research Interests  I’m broadly interested in probabilistic modelling, sequential settings and generalization. Current work focuses on modelling non-stationary data, including deep sequence models for continuous time and unsupervised test-time adaptation. I also enjoy applying ML to social-science problems.

Bio  I earned a joint M.Sc. in statistics from TU Berlin and Humboldt University Berlin. I wrote my Master's thesis on continuous-time modeling under the supervision of Maja Rudolph at the Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence. I spent some time in France, where I obtained an engineering degree in applied mathematics and economics from ENSAE. Earlier, I studied economics and political science at Humboldt University Berlin and the University of Munich.

Publications

monitor
Monitoring Risks in Test-time Adaptation
Mona Schirmer*, Metod Jazbec*, Christian Naesseth, Eric Nalisnick
Preprint
STAD
Temporal Test-Time Adaptation with State-Space Models
Mona Schirmer, Dan Zhang, Eric Nalisnick
Preprint
DivDis
Beyond Top-Class Agreement: Using Divergences to Forecast Performance under Distribution Shift
Mona Schirmer, Dan Zhang, Eric Nalisnick
DistShift Workshop @ NeurIPS 2023
EconBERTa
EconBERTa: Towards Robust Extraction of Named Entities in Economics
Karim Lasri, Pedro Vitor Quinta de Castro, Mona Schirmer, Luis Eduardo San Martin, Linxi Wang, Tomáš Dulka, Haaya Naushan, John Pougué-Biyong, Arianna Legovini, Samuel Fraiberger
EMNLP Findings 2023
CRU
Modeling Irregular Time Series with Continuous Recurrent Units
Mona Schirmer, Mazin Eltayeb, Stefan Lessmann, Maja Rudolph
ICML 2022