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Maximilian Böther
Google Scholar ID: Z6qj7ygAAAAJ
PhD Student @ Systems Group, ETH Zurich
Machine Learning Systems
Data Management
Deep Learning
Modern Hardware
Machine Learning
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134
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4
Publications
15
Co-authors
14
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Publications
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The Finetuner's Fallacy: When to Pretrain with Your Finetuning Data
2026
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Mixtera: A Data Plane for Foundation Model Training
2025
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On Distributed Larger-Than-Memory Subset Selection With Pairwise Submodular Functions
arXiv.org · 2024
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Modyn: Data-Centric Machine Learning Pipeline Orchestration
2023
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
Publications at top venues including SIGMOD, VLDB, MLSys, ICLR, ALENEX, AI&Law, HotInfra, EuroMLSys
Recipient of the ML and Systems Rising Star Award 2025
Modyn paper accepted to SIGMOD’25
Distributed submodular subset selection paper accepted to MLSys’25
Mixtera vision paper accepted to HotInfra’24 (co-located with SOSP)
Vectorized hash table analysis paper accepted to VLDB’23
Deep learning for combinatorial optimization paper accepted to ICLR
Co-organized the 'Systems for Cost-Efficient AI' track at the AI+X Summit 2024 in Zurich
Research Experience
Developed Mixtera: a lightweight data plane for LLM/VLM training
Contributed to Modyn: a platform for training models on datasets that grow over time
Involved in Apertus: Switzerland’s national LLM
ML Intern at Apple (Seattle, starting May 2025), working on RL infrastructure for diffusion models
Summer research intern at Google (Sunnyvale, CA, 2023), working on scaling submodular data subset selection
Joined ETH Zurich Systems Group and EASL for Ph.D. in Machine Learning Systems (Nov 2022)
Co-authors
14 total
Co-author 1
Ana Klimovic
ETH Zurich
Tobias Friedrich
Chair for Algorithm Engineering, Hasso Plattner Institute, Potsdam, Germany
Tilmann Rabl
Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam
Lawrence Benson
PostDoc @ Technische Universität München
Corinna Coupette
Assistant Professor, Telos Lab, Aalto University
Co-author 7
Daniel Martin Katz
Professor of Law, Illinois Tech - Chicago Kent College of Law
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