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Maximilian Seeliger

Direct Doctorate @ ETH Zurich

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I am a direct doctorate student at ETH Zurich, currently working with the Learning & Adaptive Systems Group on reinforcement learning. In particular, my focus is on zero-shot methods that generalize to unseen tasks at test time and analyzing latent world models to understand their relationship to reinforcement learning.

Prior to ETH, I completed a Bachelor with Honors in computer science at the Technical University of Vienna, working with Prof. Thomas Gärtner on graph representations for machine learning. I was also a research intern at the Chatterjee Group at IST Austria, where I worked on formal verification and automated reasoning.

news

Jul 20, 2026 Our paper “Uncertainty Quantification for Flow-Based Vision-Language-Action Models” has received the Best Paper Award at the Diffusion for Robot Learning Workshop at RSS 2026 🥳
Jun 24, 2026 Participated in the EUROPE EMBODIED hackathon with Paul and a great team, working on a precision insertion task with a Franka Emika robot arm.
Apr 30, 2026 Our paper Automated Approach for Solving Infinite-state Polynomial Reachability Games was accepted for publication at IJCAI 2026.
Mar 24, 2026 Participated in the Jane Street Guts++ math competition, solving partially observable problems and interesting puzzels.
Dec 04, 2025 Officially awarded the honors degree from Technical University of Vienna, recognizing my academic achievements and contributions to the honors program.

selected publications

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    Uncertainty Quantification for Flow-Based Vision-Language-Action Models
    Ralf Römer, Maximilian Seeliger, and 6 more authors
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2606.18043, 2026
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    Automated Approach for Solving Infinite-state Polynomial Reachability Games
    Krishnendu Chatterjee, Ehsan Kafshdar Goharshady, and 3 more authors
    In International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2026
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    Graph Product Representations
    Maximilian Seeliger, Fabian Jogl, and 1 more author
    In Mining and Learning with Graphs @ European Conference on Machine Learning (MLG @ ECML), 2025
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    Quantified Linear and Polynomial Arithmetic Satisfiability via Template-based Skolemization
    Krishnendu Chatterjee, Ehsan Kafshdar Goharshady, and 4 more authors
    In Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2025