Publications

2026

1. groger2026compass[NeurIPS 2026]

   To Align or Not To Align: Check Your COMPASS Before You Train

   Fabian Gröger, Petar Damjanović, and Maria Brbić .

   Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS),  2026.

2. groger2026projector[NeurIPS 2026]

   Rethinking Projector Training in Multimodal LLMs

   Fabian Gröger, Naël Ouerghemi, Shuo Wen, and Maria Brbić .

   Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS),  2026.

3. arXiv:2602.14486[ICML 2026]

   Revisiting the Platonic Representation Hypothesis: An Aristotelian View

   Fabian Gröger, Shuo Wen, and Maria Brbić .

   International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML),  2026.

   arXiv code website

4. arXiv:2509.26291[ICASSP 2026]

   Representation-Based Data Quality Audits for Audio

   Alvaro Gonzalez-Jimenez^*, Fabian Gröger^*, Linda Wermelinger, Andrin Bürli, Iason Kastanis , and 2 more authors .

   IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP),  2026.

   arXiv website

5. arXiv:2505.11034[DMLR 2026]

   CleanPatrick: A Benchmark for Image Data Cleaning

   Fabian Gröger, Simone Lionetti, Philippe Gottfrois, Alvaro Gonzalez-Jimenez, Ludovic Amruthalingam , and 10 more authors .

   Journal of Data-centric Machine Learning Research (DMLR),  2026.

   arXiv website

6. wermelinger_concepts_2026[MICCAIW 2026]Note: Spotlight

   Multi-Dataset Diagnostic Utility of Clinical Visual Concepts in AI Systems for Dermatology

   Linda Wermelinger, Simone Lionetti, Fabian Gröger, Nipun Ranasekara, Philippe Gottfrois , and 4 more authors .

   ISIC Workshop @ Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI),  2026.

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7. arXiv:2608.16198[ArXiv 2026]

   Picking the Right Image to Classify: Reliable-Input Selection in Teledermatology

   Fabian Gröger, Marco Weishaupt, Philippe Gottfrois, Simone Lionetti, Linda Wermelinger , and 4 more authors .

   2026.

   arXiv

8. simon2026steering[Patent 2026]

   Training Machine Learning Algorithms for Steering a Hearing Device

   Laurent Simon, H. Wuethrich, F. Uhlemayer, Ruksana Giurda, Fabian Gröger , and 2 more authors .

   US Patent Application 19/323,231,  2026.

2025

1. arXiv:2601.00840[ArXiv 2025]

   A Global Atlas of Digital Dermatology to Map Innovation and Disparities

   Fabian Gröger, Simone Lionetti, Philippe Gottfrois, Alvaro Gonzalez-Jimenez, Lea Habermacher , and 5 more authors .

   2025.

   arXiv website

2. han2025planet[NPJ 2025]

   Planet-wide performance of a skin disease AI algorithm validated in Korea

   Seung Seog Han, Soo Ick Cho, Fabian Gröger, Alexander A Navarini, Myoung Shin Kim , and 6 more authors .

   npj Digital Medicine,  2025.

3. arXiv:2509.22242[ML4H 2025]

   Clinical Uncertainty Impacts Machine Learning Evaluations

   Simone Lionetti^*, Fabian Gröger^*, Philippe Gottfrois, Alvaro Gonzalez-Jimenez, Ludovic Amruthalingam , and 2 more authors .

   Machine Learning for Health (ML4H),  2025.

   arXiv

4. groger_2025_review[CMPBU 2025]

   A review and systematic guide to counteracting medical data scarcity for AI applications

   Fabian Gröger, Ludovic Amruthalingam, Simone Lionetti, Alexander A Navarini, Fabian Ille , and 1 more author .

   Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine Update,  2025.

5. arXiv:2506.16895[NeurIPS 2025]

   With Limited Data for Multimodal Alignment, Let the STRUCTURE Guide You

   Fabian Gröger, Shuo Wen, Huyen Le, and Maria Brbić .

   Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS),  2025.

   arXiv website

6. arXiv:2505.21228[MICCAI 2025]Note: Early Accept (top 9%)

   Is Hyperbolic Space All You Need for Medical Anomaly Detection?

   Alvaro Gonzalez-Jimenez, Simone Lionetti, Philippe Gottfrois, Fabian Gröger, Alexander Navarini , and 1 more author .

   Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI),  2025.

   arXiv

7. arXiv:2502.06664[ICASSP 2025]

   Evaluation of Deep Audio Representations for Hearables

   Fabian Gröger, Pascal Baumann, Ludovic Amruthalingam, Laurent Simon, Ruksana Giurda , and 1 more author .

   IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP),  Apr 2025.

   arXiv website

8. baumann_listening_2025[WASPAA 2025]Note: Oral

   Listening Intention Estimation for Hearables with Natural Behavior Cues

   Pascal Baumann, Seraina Glaus, Ludovic Amruthalingam, Fabian Gröger, Ruksana Giurda , and 1 more author .

   IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA),  2025.

9. arXiv:2406.09984[AERO 2025]

   Self-Supervised and Few-Shot Learning for Robust Bioaerosol Monitoring

   Adrian Willi, Pascal Baumann, Sophie Erb, Fabian Gröger, Yanick Zeder , and 1 more author .

   Aerobiologia,  2025.

   arXiv

2024

1. arXiv:2411.05514[ML4H 2024]

   Towards Scalable Foundation Models for Digital Dermatology

   Fabian Gröger, Philippe Gottfrois, Ludovic Amruthalingam, Alvaro Gonzalez-Jimenez, Simone Lionetti , and 3 more authors .

   Machine Learning for Health (ML4H),  Dec 2024.

   arXiv

2. arXiv:2305.17048[NeurIPS 2024]

   Intrinsic Self-Supervision for Data Quality Audits

   Fabian Gröger, Simone Lionetti, Philippe Gottfrois, Alvaro Gonzalez-Jimenez, Ludovic Amruthalingam , and 4 more authors .

   Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS),  Dec 2024.

   arXiv code website

3. arXiv:2411.04584[MICCAI 2024]Note: Early Accept (top 11%), Oral

   PASSION for Dermatology: Bridging the Diversity Gap with Pigmented Skin Images from Sub-Saharan Africa

   Philippe Gottfrois, Fabian Gröger, Herizo Andriambololoniaina, Ludovic Amruthalingam, Mendrika Rakotoarisaona , and 11 more authors .

   Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI),  Oct 2024.

   arXiv website

4. arXiv:2403.15260[ECCVW 2024]

   Hyperbolic Metric Learning for Visual Outlier Detection

   Alvaro Gonzalez-Jimenez, Simone Lionetti, Dena Bazazian, Philippe Gottfrois, Fabian Gröger , and 2 more authors .

   In Beyond Euclidean Workshop @ ECCV 2024,  Sep 2024.

   arXiv

5. arXiv:2309.06961[CVPRW 2024]

   Towards Reliable Dermatology Evaluation Benchmarks

   Fabian Gröger, Simone Lionetti, Philippe Gottfrois, Alvaro Gonzalez-Jimenez, Matthew Groh , and 4 more authors .

   In DCA in MI Workshop @ CVPR 2024,  Jun 2024.

   arXiv code

6. gottfrois_psoriasis_2024[BJD 2024]

   An AI-Assisted Similarity Search Engine for Enhanced Psoriasis Case Identification and Patient Engagement

   Philippe Gottfrois, Elisabeth Goessinger, Alvaro Gonzalez-Jimenez, Fabian Gröger, Simone Lionetti , and 2 more authors .

   British Journal of Dermatology,  2024.

2023

1. arXiv:2309.06961[ML4H 2023]

   Towards Reliable Dermatology Evaluation Benchmarks

   Fabian Gröger, Simone Lionetti, Philippe Gottfrois, Alvaro Gonzalez-Jimenez, Matthew Groh , and 4 more authors .

   In Proceedings of the 3rd Machine Learning for Health (ML4H) Symposium,  Dec 2023.

   arXiv code

2. arXiv:2306.00753[MICCAI 2023]Note: Early Accept (top 14%), Best Paper Award

   Robust T-Loss for Medical Image Segmentation

   Alvaro Gonzalez-Jimenez, Simone Lionetti, Philippe Gottfrois, Fabian Gröger, Marc Pouly , and 1 more author .

   Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI),  Oct 2023.

   Best Paper Award arXiv code website

   Best Paper at MICCAI 2023.

2022

1. sdaih23[IJCAIW 2022]

   Towards Reducing the Need for Annotations in Digital Dermatology with Self-supervised Learning

   Fabian Gröger, Philippe Gottfrois, Ludovic Amruthalingam, Alvaro Gonzalez-Jimenez, Simone Lionetti , and 2 more authors .

   In Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Scarce Data in Artificial Intelligence for Healthcare - SDAIH,  2022.

2. arXiv:2308.06175[SDS 2022]

   Assessing Guest Nationality Composition from Hotel Reviews

   Fabian Gröger, Marc Pouly, Flavia Tinner, and Leif Brandes .

   In 2022 9th Swiss Conference on Data Science (SDS),  2022.

   arXiv