Max Argus PhD Student Computer Vision Lab Department of Computer Science University of Freiburg Germany Office location: Georges-Köhler-Allee, Building 052, Room 1-19 D-79110, Freiburg im Breisgau Phone: +49 761 203 97630 E-Mail:

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Brief Bio

I received my Bachelor's and Master's degree in Physics degree at the University of Heidelberg. My master's thesis was completed with Bjoer Ommer.
In October 2017 I joined the Computer Vision Group in Freiburg under Prof. Thomas Brox where I worked together with Wolfram Burgard on computer vision for robot manipulation. I completed my PhD in February 2022, and have worked as a postdoc in the group since then.

Scientific Interests

Publications

2025

Journal

Selective Concept Bottleneck Models Without Predefined Concepts   Paper doi> Code/data

Simon Schrodi, J. Schur, Max Argus, Thomas Brox

Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR), May 2025

Conference

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When and How Does CLIP Enable Domain and Compositional Generalization?   Paper doi> Code/data

Elias Kempf, Simon Schrodi, Max Argus, Thomas Brox

International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2025

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Two Effects, One Trigger: On the Modality Gap, Object Bias, and Information Imbalance in Contrastive Vision-Language Models   Paper doi> Code/data

Simon Schrodi, David T. Hoffmann, Max Argus, V. Fischer, Thomas Brox

International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2025

 

2024

Conference

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CrossQ: Batch Normalization in Deep Reinforcement Learning for Greater Sample Efficiency and Simplicity   Paper

A. Bhatt, D. Palenicek, B. Belousov, Max Argus, Artemij Amiranashvili, Thomas Brox, J. Peters

International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2024

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Compositional Servoing by Recombining Demonstrations  

Max Argus, A. Nayak, M. Büchner, Silvio Galesso, A. Valada, Thomas Brox

IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2024

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Latent Diffusion Counterfactual Explanations   Paper doi> Code/data

Simon Schrodi, Karim Farid, Max Argus, Thomas Brox

German Conference on Pattern Recognition (GCPR), 2024

 

2023

Conference

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Far Away in the Deep Space: Dense Nearest-Neighbor-Based Out-of-Distribution Detection   Paper

Silvio Galesso, Max Argus, Thomas Brox

IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Workshops, 2023

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Climate-sensitive Urban Planning through Optimization of Tree Placements   Paper Code/data

Simon Schrodi, F. Briegel, Max Argus, A. Christen, Thomas Brox

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) Workshop, 2023

 

2022

Conference

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Conditional Visual Servoing for Multi-Step Tasks   Paper

S. Izquierdo, Max Argus, Thomas Brox

IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2022

 

2021

Conference

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Temporal shift GAN for large scale video generation   Paper

A. Munoz, Mohammadreza Zolfaghari, Max Argus, Thomas Brox

IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2021

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Miscellaneous

• One of our robots was featured in this university project video.