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Martin Jaggi

Martin Jaggi is an associate professor at EPFL, where he heads the Machine Learning and Optimization Laboratory. His work on optimization for machine learning includes Revisiting Frank-Wolfe and Sparsified SGD with Memory. He earned a PhD in machine learning and optimization at ETH Zurich in 2011. EPFL named him a tenure-track assistant professor in July 2016. When EPFL, ETH Zurich and CSCS released the open multilingual Apertus language model in September 2025, he sat on the steering committee of the Swiss AI Initiative.

Now at
EPFL
Works
247

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Timeline

  1. 2011

    A PhD at ETH Zurich

    He earns a PhD in machine learning and optimization at ETH Zurich in 2011.

  2. 2013

    Revisiting Frank-Wolfe

    He publishes Revisiting Frank-Wolfe at the 30th International Conference on Machine Learning in 2013. Before his visit to the Simons Institute, he works as a postdoctoral researcher at École Polytechnique in Paris.

  3. 2016–2017

    A tenure-track post at EPFL

    EPFL names him a tenure-track assistant professor of computer science in July 2016. He joins NCCR MARVEL as a group leader in May 2017.

  4. 2018

    Sparsified SGD with Memory

    He is one of the authors of Sparsified SGD with Memory, which is first submitted to arXiv in September 2018.

  5. 2021

    A teaching award at EPFL

    He wins the 2021 Credit Suisse Award for Best Teaching for introducing two novel, hands-on science challenges into his machine learning course.

  6. September 2025

    Apertus, an open language model

    He sits on the steering committee of the Swiss AI Initiative when EPFL, ETH Zurich and CSCS release Apertus in September 2025. The arXiv paper on Apertus, which lists him among its authors, describes models released at 8B and 70B scales.

  7. As of October 2026

    Associate professor at EPFL

    As an associate professor at EPFL, he heads the Machine Learning and Optimization Laboratory, and ELLIS lists him as a Fellow.

Sources and credits

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  1. EPFL - Martin Jaggi people.epfl.ch. Checked 15 October 2026.
  2. Revisiting Frank-Wolfe: Projection-Free Sparse Convex Optimization proceedings.mlr.press. Checked 15 October 2026.
  3. Martin Jaggi simons.berkeley.edu. Checked 15 October 2026.
  4. Martin Jaggi named Tenure Track Assistant Professor in IC - EPFL actu.epfl.ch. Checked 15 October 2026.
  5. Martin Jaggi - Profile - People - nccr-marvel.ch :: NCCR MARVEL nccr-marvel.ch. Checked 15 October 2026.
  6. Sparsified SGD with Memory proceedings.neurips.cc. Checked 15 October 2026.
  7. [1809.07599] Sparsified SGD with Memory arxiv.org. Checked 15 October 2026.
  8. Reward for learning with a twist of real-life research - EPFL actu.epfl.ch. Checked 15 October 2026.
  9. Apertus: a fully open, transparent, multilingual language model - EPFL AI Center ai.epfl.ch. Checked 15 October 2026.
  10. [2509.14233] Apertus: Democratizing Open and Compliant LLMs for Global Language Environments arxiv.org. Checked 15 October 2026.
  11. Martin Jaggi | European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems ellis.eu. Checked 15 October 2026.