Distributed Computing
ETH Zurich

Theses

Our group has several open research projects that are suitable for a master (M), bachelor (B) or semester (S) theses. In addition, we have group projects, and labs for distributed systems majors; projects marked as B or S are usually also suitable for labs or group projects.

If you have an idea for a project that is not on our list but falls into our research area, we would be excited to hear about it.

Available Theses & Labs

TitleTypeContact/SupervisorAssigned
Homo Moralis Plays a GameM/SDamien Berriaud,
Andrei Constantinescu
available
AlphaZero Meets ARCMAndreas Plesner,
Benjamin Estermann
available
Audio WatermarkingM/SLuca Lanzendörferavailable
Bring Your Own AlgorithmM/SAndrei Constantinescuavailable
Data AttributionM/SLuca Lanzendörfer,
Frédéric Berdoz
available
Designing the Next ARC ChallengeM/SSaku Peltonen,
Andreas Plesner
available
Emergent Architectures: Neuro-symbolic AIMGiacomo Camposampieroavailable
Evaluating Deepfake Detection Across Image Resolution and ComplexityBTill Aczel,
Andreas Plesner
available
Evaluating and Controlling the Political Bias of LLMsM/SFrédéric Berdozavailable
Excellent Students for ML in Robust CV/LLMB/M/SAndreas Plesneravailable
Exceptional Students for ML in Audio/MusicB/M/SLuca Lanzendörfer,
Florian Grötschla
available
Karma EconomicsM/SDamien Berriaudavailable
More Efficient Transformers with high-level multi-token predictionM/SFrédéric Berdoz,
Benjamin Estermann
available
Optimizing Inventory ManagementM/SAndreas Plesner,
Benjamin Estermann
available
Reasoning Benchmark for LLMsM/SBenjamin Estermann,
Luca Lanzendörfer
available
SAT Solving with Graph Neural NetworksM/SSaku Peltonen,
Joël Mathys
available
Scalar Quantization for Audio CompressionM/STill Aczel,
Luca Lanzendörfer
available
The Impact of Training Data on Adversarial ExamplesB/SAndreas Plesner,
Till Aczel
available
Topics in Computational Voting and Game TheoryM/SAndrei Constantinescuavailable
Topics in Graph Neural NetworksB/M/SFlorian Grötschlaavailable

Current Theses & Labs

TitleTypeContact/SupervisorAssignedStudent(s)
RecopmressionBTill AczelFS 25
Abstract Reasoning Corpus (ARC) ChallengeMFrédéric BerdozHS 24
Adversarial examples and robust classifiersMAndreas PlesnerHS 24
Anomaly Detection for Visual InspectionMIoana GiurgiuHS 24
Audio EditingMLuca Lanzendörfer,
Florian Grötschla
HS 24
Automated Foosball TrackingBJoël Mathys,
Till Aczel
HS 24
Breaking Image CAPTCHAs and designing a new CAPTCHA MAndreas PlesnerHS 24
Chaos Testing Blockchain Networks: Simulating Real-World FailuresMYann VonlanthenHS 24
DAO Governance AggregationBArthur GervaisHS 24
DeepEye: Benchmarking & GeneralizationBArd KastratiHS 24
DeepEye: Benchmarking PlatformBArd KastratiHS 24
Egocentric Action RecognitionMArd KastratiHS 24
Empirical Analysis of Blockchain Payment SystemsBSaku Peltonen,
Lioba Heimbach
HS 24
Empirical Analysis of Prediction MarketsBLioba Heimbach,
Quentin Kniep
HS 24
Evaluating Fast FeedForward NetworksSAndreas PlesnerHS 24
Foundation Models for Decoding Brain Activity - BenchmarkingBArd KastratiHS 24
Foundation Models for Decoding Brain Activity - ModelsMArd KastratiHS 24
Giving ChatGPT a Virtual BodySArd KastratiHS 24
Human-aligned Compression for Robust ModelsSAndreas Plesner,
Till Aczel
HS 24
Kantian Moralists and AltruistsMDamien Berriaud,
Andrei Constantinescu
HS 24
LLMs for contract negotiationMAndreas PlesnerHS 24
Morality in Sequential GamesBDamien Berriaud,
Andrei Constantinescu
HS 24
Multi-modal Contrastive Learning for Emotion RecognitionMArd KastratiHS 24
Neural Fluid Simulation with GNNsSJoël Mathys,
Florian Grötschla
HS 24
Neural Networks for EEG Data: Compression and Reconstruction ValidationSArd Kastrati,
Luca Lanzendörfer
HS 24
Neural Node Overlap Removal with GNNsBFlorian GrötschlaHS 24
Optimizing Encoding Speed for Image CompressionMTill AczelHS 24
Order Book Reconstruction, Analysis, and VisualizationMLuca LanzendörferHS 24
Recommender Systems for PoliticsSFrédéric Berdoz,
Yann Vonlanthen
HS 24
Stability of Adversarial ExamplesBAndreas PlesnerHS 24
Stock Market PredictionMJoël Mathys,
Ruedi Delacour
HS 24
Text-to-MelBLuca Lanzendörfer,
Florian Grötschla
HS 24
Transfer Learning for Graph Recommendation SystemsBFlorian Grötschla,
Luca Lanzendörfer
HS 24
Unified Model for EEG-based Eye TrackingBArd KastratiHS 24
View-Specific Video CompressionBTill AczelHS 24
Volatility Forecasting and Regime Detection for Options TradingMFrédéric Berdoz,
Ruedi Delacour
HS 24
Voting for CoalitionsBAndrei ConstantinescuHS 24
Wave Function Collapse for Graph GenerationSTill Aczel,
Joël Mathys
HS 24
AI-generated Yield CurvesMDaniela Brauckhoff,
Andreas Plesner
FS 24
EEG CodecsSArd Kastrati,
Luca Lanzendörfer
FS 24
Game Theory for Games: Algorithms and AxiomsGAndrei ConstantinescuFS 24
Graphs in Medicine: Working with Blood Vessel NetworksMJoël Mathys,
Andreas Plesner
FS 24
Hierarchical Representations for TransformersMBenjamin EstermannFS 24
Learning from DemonstrationsGBenjamin EstermannFS 24
Lightning Network + GNNsMFlorian Grötschla,
Lioba Heimbach
FS 24
Optimal Routing for 2D Mesh-based Analog Compute-In-Memory Accelerator ArchitectureMWilliam SimonFS 24
Puzzle solving with Graph Neural NetworksSJoël Mathys,
Benjamin Estermann
FS 24
Stock Market GraphsSFlorian Grötschla,
Joël Mathys
FS 24,
Structured Sparsity for Efficient Model InferenceSPeter BelcákFS 24
The Emergence of Two-Party SystemsGAndrei ConstantinescuFS 24

Past Theses & Labs

TitleTypeContact/SupervisorAssignedStudent(s)
Computing with Asynchronous Cellular Automata [confidential]MFlorian Grötschla,
Andreas Plesner
HS 24
Leveraging Pre-Trained LMs for Rapid and Accurate Structure Elucidation from 2D NMR Data [confidential]SLuca Lanzendörfer,
Florian Grötschla
HS 24
Symbolic Music Generation with Autoregressive Graph Autoencoder [confidential]SFlorian Grötschla,
Luca Lanzendörfer
HS 24
Exploit Detection in the Evolution of DAppsMBenjamin Estermann,
Ye Wang
FS 24
Breaking Google’s reCAPTCHAv3 [confidential]SAndreas PlesnerFS 24
Breaking Google’s reCAPTCHAv3 - Getting good cookies [confidential]SAndreas PlesnerFS 24
Breaking Google’s reCAPTCHAv3 - How are humans classified [confidential]SAndreas PlesnerFS 24
Building a Multi-Cryptocurrency Node ExplorerSLucianna KifferFS 24
CLLAP: Contrastive Language-Lyrics-Audio Pretraining [confidential]MLuca Lanzendörfer,
Florian Grötschla
FS 24
Compute-Efficient Pretraining of Large EEG Models [confidential]BArd KastratiFS 24
Conditional Generation of WavetablesBLuca Lanzendörfer,
Florian Grötschla
FS 24
Improving the Data Quality of ConfSearch using LLMsSAndreas PlesnerFS 24
Data Driven Anomaly Detection for Rails using In-service Railway VehiclesBAndreas PlesnerFS 24
Data Driven Anomaly Detection of Springs in In-service Railway Vehicles [confidential]BAndreas PlesnerFS 24
Hidden State Aggregation Models with GNN Convolutions Applied to Multivariate Time-Series Forecasting in Energy Markets [confidential]MBenjamin EstermannFS 24
Uncovering Discovery: A Deep Dive Into Ethereum’s Discovery Protocols [confidential]MLucianna Kiffer,
Yann Vonlanthen
FS 24
Byzantine Distributed Stable Matching [confidential]MDiana Ghinea,
Andrei Constantinescu
FS 24
Benchmarking Music Generation Models and Metrics via Human Preference Studies [confidential]SLuca Lanzendörfer,
Florian Grötschla
FS 24
Benchmarking Positional Encodings for GNNs [confidential]SFlorian GrötschlaFS 24
Sybil Detection using Graph Neural Networks [confidential]MAndreas PlesnerFS 24
Improving Investment Strategies with GNNs [confidential]SFlorian Grötschla,
Joël Mathys
FS 24
Graph Algorithms for Dynamic Directories [confidential]MAndrei Constantinescu,
Pankaj Khanchandani
FS 24
CLAP Embeddings for Artist Similarity with Graph Neural Networks [confidential]GFlorian Grötschla,
Luca Lanzendörfer
FS 24
Next Level Message-Passing with Hierarchical Support Graphs [confidential]SFlorian GrötschlaFS 24
FuzzNet: Imitating Byzantine Behavior in Distributed Systems [confidential]MYann VonlanthenFS 24
Incentivizing Simple Transactions [confidential]BLioba Heimbach,
Andrei Constantinescu
FS 24
Infrastructure Impact on Cryptocurrency NetworksSLucianna KifferFS 24
Jigsaw Puzzle Solver using Machine Learning [confidential]SAndreas Plesner,
Till Aczel
FS 24
Reinforcement Learning for State-Based Algorithms on Graphs [confidential]MFlorian Grötschla,
Joël Mathys
FS 24
Leverage Staking using Liquid Staking Tokens [confidential]BLioba Heimbach,
Robin Fritsch
FS 24
Contrastive Lyrics Alignment with a Timestamp-Informed Loss [confidential]SLuca Lanzendörfer,
Florian Grötschla
FS 24
Lyrics to Vocals Generation [confidential]MLuca Lanzendörfer,
Florian Grötschla
FS 24
High-Fidelity Music Vocoder Using Neural Audio Codecs [confidential]SLuca Lanzendörfer,
Florian Grötschla
FS 24
FunctaFormer: Domain Agnostic Super Resolution [confidential]MLuca Lanzendörfer,
Benjamin Estermann
FS 24
Solving Poisson Equations using Neural Walk-on-Spheres [confidential]MAnima AnandkumarFS 24
Open-LLark: Open-Sourcing And Extending LLark [confidential]BLuca Lanzendörfer,
Florian Grötschla
FS 24
Toward Robust Voting Advice Applications: Lessons from Smartvote [confidential]MYann Vonlanthen,
Frédéric Berdoz
FS 24
Reconstructing ODEs for Railway Vehicles Using Machine Learning [confidential]BAndreas PlesnerFS 24
Mangrove: Fast and Parallelizable Smart Contract Agreement [confidential]MYann Vonlanthen,
Quentin Kniep
FS 24
Text-to-Speech Arena [confidential]SLuca Lanzendörfer,
Florian Grötschla
FS 24
Using Physics-Informed Neural Networks to Predict Railway IrregularitiesMAndreas PlesnerFS 24
Exploring Typical and Uncertainty-Driven Active Learning on DINO Embeddings to Enhance Versatility [confidential]STill Aczel,
Benjamin Estermann
HS 23
AEye: A Visualization Tool for Image Datasets [confidential]GFlorian Grötschla,
Luca Lanzendörfer
HS 23
Airdrop Mechanisms and Their Sybil Resistance [confidential]BLioba Heimbach,
Yann Vonlanthen
HS 23
Tokenization of Ethereum Stake [confidential]SLucianna Kiffer,
Lioba Heimbach
HS 23
Object-Centric Reasoning with Language and Code [confidential]GBenjamin Estermann,
Joël Mathys
HS 23
Locating and Hiding Validators in the Ethereum Consensus Network [confidential]MLucianna Kiffer,
Yann Vonlanthen
HS 23
Attacks on DAOs [confidential]SLioba Heimbach,
Yann Vonlanthen
HS 23
Generative Musical Source Separation Based on Neural Audio Codecs [confidential]SLuca Lanzendörfer,
Florian Grötschla
HS 23
Best Pokémon TeamBAndreas PlesnerHS 23
I’m a Robot. Solving CAPTCHAs with Advanced Machine Learning Techniques [confidential]SAndreas PlesnerHS 23
Audio Data Visualization Using Text-Audio Embeddings [confidential]BLuca Lanzendörfer,
Florian Grötschla
HS 23
Building Practical Distributed AlgorithmsGYann VonlanthenHS 23,
Building Practical Longest Chain ProtocolsGYann VonlanthenHS 23
WikiGame: Graph-Exploration, Fun includedGLuca LanzendörferHS 23,
,
,
Dawn of an Era: How Layer 2 Solutions Change the Workload on Ethereum Blockchains [confidential]MLioba Heimbach,
Quentin Kniep
HS 23
Improving Non-Linear Redundancy Reduction in Self-Supervised Contrastive Learning [confidential]GBéni EgressyHS 23
Crawling the Bitcoin Client EcosystemSLucianna Kiffer,
Lioba Heimbach
HS 23
Cue and Mix-Point Estimation for Automated DJ Systems [confidential]MLuca LanzendörferHS 23
DataComp ChallengeGTill Aczel,
Benjamin Estermann
HS 23
Personalized Federated Learning with Pre-Trained GNNs [confidential]MBéni EgressyHS 23
Diverse Datasets for BCI [confidential]SArd KastratiHS 23
Pre-training a Deep Learning Model for Decoding Brain Activity [confidential]BArd KastratiHS 23
Leveraging Dense Text Representations for Efficient Language ModelingMPeter BelcákHS 23
SUPClust: Active Learning at the BoundariesSBenjamin Estermann,
Till Aczel
HS 23
Exploring Activation Ensembles for Feed-Forward Neural NetworksBFlorian Grötschla,
Joël Mathys
HS 23
Fair Transaction Ordering WebsiteBLioba HeimbachHS 23
Logarithmic Approximation for Road Pricing on Grids [confidential]MAndrei ConstantinescuHS 23
GNN PretrainingMBéni EgressyHS 23
GNNs for TPU GraphsSJoël Mathys,
Florian Grötschla
HS 23
Bridging Image and Audio Compression: A Spectrogram-based Neural ApproachMLuca LanzendörferHS 23
Machine Unlearning ChallengeSLuca Lanzendörfer,
Benjamin Estermann
HS 23
Evaluating Generative Models on Musical Mel Spectrogram Inversion [confidential]GLuca LanzendörferHS 23
Adding Music Modality to LLMs by Leveraging Contrastive Pretraining [confidential]BLuca LanzendörferHS 23
Network-level Attacks Against Ethereum PoSBLioba HeimbachHS 23
In-Depth Analysis of Bidding Strategies in MEV Auctions [confidential]GBenjamin Estermann,
Ye Wang
HS 23
Train Small - Solve Big: Reinforcement Learning on Logic Puzzles using Graph Neural Networks [confidential]MBenjamin Estermann,
Joël Mathys
HS 23
Understanding the Effects of Improved Representations on Downstream Reinforcement Learning Tasks [confidential]SBenjamin EstermannHS 23
Automated Positioning for Smart Lighting [confidential]MJudith Beestermöller,
Andreas Plesner
HS 23
Peer-to-peer Networks under ChurnSLucianna KifferHS 23
Scaling MARL with Graph Neural NetworksMBenjamin Estermann,
Florian Grötschla
HS 23
Text Compression for Efficient Language GenerationMPeter BelcákHS 23
Coarse-to-Fine Unsupervised Text-to-Music Latent Diffusion [confidential]MLuca LanzendörferHS 23
The Peer Discovery Layer of the Ethereum NetworkSLucianna KifferHS 23
The Price of Weighted Majority Support [confidential]GAndrei ConstantinescuHS 23
Distributed Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Driving in TrackMania [confidential]GBenjamin Estermann,
Luca Lanzendörfer
HS 23
Validity Properties of Byzantine Agreement [confidential]GAndrei Constantinescu,
Diana Ghinea
HS 23
Enhancing GNNs: An Exploration of Iterative Solving and Augmentation TechniquesBJoël Mathys,
Florian Grötschla
FS 23
Enhancing the Building Blocks of Language-Based Visual Reasoning for ARCMJoël Mathys,
Benjamin Estermann
FS 23
Asynchronous GNNs [confidential]GJoël Mathys,
Florian Grötschla
FS 23
Audit for Digital Assets [confidential]BJakub SliwinskiFS 23
DISCO-10M Creation and Data Exploration [confidential]SLuca Lanzendörfer,
Florian Grötschla
FS 23
Finite State Algorithm Learning on Graphs [confidential]MJoël Mathys,
Florian Grötschla
FS 23
Comparison of Electoral Systems and Optimization of Voting Advice QuestionnairesBAndrei Constantinescu,
Judith Beestermöller
FS 23
Contrastive Pre-Training for Integer Sequence Understanding [confidential]SPeter BelcákFS 23
Post Merge CryptocurrenciesBLucianna Kiffer,
Yann Vonlanthen
FS 23
Large Language Model Augmented Contrastive Sentence Representation LearningBZhao MengFS 23
Federated Reinforcement Learning with Heterogeneous Environments [confidential]SXiaofeng Flint Fan,
Luca Lanzendörfer
FS 23

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