Martin Lindström

PhD Student at KTH

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Biography

I am a PhD student at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. Currently, I work on artificial intelligence, machine learning, and computer vision. I am supervised by Ragnar Thobaben and Mikael Skoglund. I received both my MSc and BSc in electrical engineering from KTH, and spent a year as an exchange student at Imperial College London, where I wrote my MSc thesis at the Information Processing and Communications Lab under Deniz Gündüz.

I work on understanding machine learning systems. I use my background in information theory and error-correcting codes to design and analyse deep learning systems. The goal of my research is to develop more efficient learning algorithms which better capture features of the data, and whose performance generalise to unseen settings.

Feel free to reach out to me if you find these topics interesting!

Papers

Latest Paper Title

Martin Lindström, Coauthor 1, Coauthor 2

GRaM 2024

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First paper titles

Martin Lindström, Coauthor 1, Coauthor 2

GRaM 2024

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Teaching Experience

KTH Stochastic Signals and Systems: Autumns 2022-2024
3rd year BSc course on basic analysis of stochastic signals and systems. My TA duties included: hosting tutorial sessions, marking exams, and creating and marking project assignments.
KTH MSc Theses: Springs 2023-2024
Supervision for MSc theses (30 ECTS, equivalent to half an academic year of study). Typically one student per year for a project pitched by engineering companies.
KTH Optimal Filtering: Autumn 2022
Joint MSc and PhD course on designing (primarily linear) optimal filters, in the MMSE sense. My TA duties included marking homework assignments.
KTH Introduction to Computing Systems Engineering: Springs 2019 and 2020
1st year BSc course where students design a computer from scratch. My TA duties mainly included helping students with lab assignments.

Miscellaneous

Good Books
Gunnar Karlsson's list of good books is excellent. It contains world classics, with a bias towards European literature in general, and Swedish literature in particular. If you have any good book suggestions, please reach out!
Good Textbooks and Lecture Notes
Here are some of my favourite textbooks and lecture notes — and a short comment on why I think so.
  • BETA Mathematics Handbook by Råde and Westergren — a 500 page formula sheet which contains almost everything from linear algebra, geometry, and calculus
  • Elements of Information Theory by Cover & Thomas — maybe the most user-friendly introduction to information theory
  • Information Theory: From Coding to Learning by Polyanskiy & Wu — a more advanced treatment of information theory, which contains almost all you need to know about the topic
  • Convex Optimization by Boyd & Vandenberghe — motivation superfluous
  • Understanding Machine Learning: From Theory to Algorithms by Shalev-Shwartz and Ben-David — a good introduction to classical theoretical machine learning, such as PAC-learnability, SVMs, and much more
  • A Course in Real Analysis by McDonald and Weiss — I have found that a basic understanding of measure-theoretic probability is useful to know. Unfortunately, it is a dense subject to tackle. This is the most accessible book I have found.