Max Welling

63.6k total citations · 13 hit papers
204 papers, 20.6k citations indexed

About

Max Welling is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and Signal Processing. According to data from OpenAlex, Max Welling has authored 204 papers receiving a total of 20.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 128 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 63 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and 27 papers in Signal Processing. Recurrent topics in Max Welling's work include Gaussian Processes and Bayesian Inference (37 papers), Bayesian Methods and Mixture Models (36 papers) and Neural Networks and Applications (34 papers). Max Welling is often cited by papers focused on Gaussian Processes and Bayesian Inference (37 papers), Bayesian Methods and Mixture Models (36 papers) and Neural Networks and Applications (34 papers). Max Welling collaborates with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and United Kingdom. Max Welling's co-authors include Diederik P. Kingma, Yee Whye Teh, Zoubin Ghahramani, Kilian Q. Weinberger, Nicu Sebe, Arthur Asuncion, Padhraic Smyth, Danilo Jimenez Rezende, Shakir Mohamed and Léon Bottou and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Max Welling

197 papers receiving 19.7k citations

Hit Papers

Auto-Encoding Variational Bayes 2004 2026 2011 2018 2013 2019 2013 2014 2014 2.5k 5.0k 7.5k

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Max Welling United States 52 10.4k 8.1k 2.2k 1.1k 1.1k 204 20.6k
Ian Goodfellow United States 25 10.7k 1.0× 6.3k 0.8× 2.0k 0.9× 972 0.9× 1.1k 1.0× 37 21.3k
Peter Flach United Kingdom 45 9.5k 0.9× 6.1k 0.8× 1.4k 0.6× 1.9k 1.7× 856 0.8× 218 20.9k
Sam T. Roweis Canada 35 8.7k 0.8× 11.1k 1.4× 2.7k 1.2× 1.0k 0.9× 1.3k 1.2× 62 23.6k
Lawrence K. Saul United States 36 8.5k 0.8× 10.8k 1.3× 3.2k 1.5× 1.7k 1.5× 1.0k 0.9× 98 20.8k
Jieping Ye United States 87 7.9k 0.8× 8.7k 1.1× 2.3k 1.0× 765 0.7× 1.5k 1.4× 439 25.3k
Nitish Srivastava United States 15 10.4k 1.0× 7.6k 0.9× 2.2k 1.0× 1.3k 1.1× 1.2k 1.1× 21 25.0k
John Langford United States 37 7.2k 0.7× 6.0k 0.7× 1.8k 0.8× 1.3k 1.1× 884 0.8× 115 15.1k
Xiaofei He China 60 7.2k 0.7× 12.2k 1.5× 1.8k 0.8× 1.5k 1.4× 800 0.7× 256 19.1k
Zoubin Ghahramani United Kingdom 65 12.1k 1.2× 4.9k 0.6× 2.5k 1.1× 1.1k 1.0× 1.9k 1.7× 226 25.0k
Jie Zhou China 65 5.6k 0.5× 12.0k 1.5× 2.7k 1.2× 1.1k 1.0× 631 0.6× 632 20.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Max Welling

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Fields of papers citing papers by Max Welling

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Max Welling

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Max Welling. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Max Welling based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Max Welling. Max Welling is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Dijkstra, Marjolein, et al.. (2025). Learning Neural Free-Energy Functionals with Pair-Correlation Matching. Physical Review Letters. 134(5). 56103–56103. 7 indexed citations
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Louizos, Christos, Markus Nagel, Rana Ali Amjad, et al.. (2020). Bayesian Bits: Unifying Quantization and Pruning. arXiv (Cornell University). 33. 5741–5752. 1 indexed citations
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Louizos, Christos, et al.. (2019). The Functional Neural Process. TNO Repository. 32. 8746–8757. 5 indexed citations
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Bejnordi, Babak Ehteshami, Tijmen Blankevoort, & Max Welling. (2019). Batch-Shaped Channel Gated Networks.. arXiv (Cornell University). 4 indexed citations
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Kool, Wouter, Herke van Hoof, & Max Welling. (2019). Buy 4 REINFORCE Samples, Get a Baseline for Free!. International Conference on Learning Representations. 7 indexed citations
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Ahn, Sungjin, Anoop Korattikara, Nathan Liu, Suju Rajan, & Max Welling. (2015). Large-Scale Distributed Bayesian Matrix Factorization using Stochastic Gradient MCMC. UvA-DARE (University of Amsterdam). 9–18. 26 indexed citations
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Kingma, Diederik P. & Max Welling. (2014). Efficient Gradient-Based Inference through Transformations between Bayes Nets and Neural Nets. arXiv (Cornell University). 32. 1782–1790. 11 indexed citations
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Welling, Max, et al.. (2012). The Time-Marginalized Coalescent Prior for Hierarchical Clustering. UvA-DARE (University of Amsterdam). 25. 2969–2977. 2 indexed citations
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Welling, Max, et al.. (2012). A cluster-cumulant expansion at the fixed points of belief propagation. arXiv (Cornell University). 883–892. 3 indexed citations
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Newman, David, Arthur Asuncion, Padhraic Smyth, & Max Welling. (2009). Distributed Algorithms for Topic Models. Journal of Machine Learning Research. 10(62). 1801–1828. 251 indexed citations
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Porteous, Ian R., Evgeniy Bart, & Max Welling. (2008). Multi-HDP: a non parametric Bayesian model for tensor factorization. National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 1487–1490. 56 indexed citations
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Smyth, Padhraic, Max Welling, & Arthur Asuncion. (2008). Asynchronous Distributed Learning of Topic Models. Neural Information Processing Systems. 21. 81–88. 87 indexed citations
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Teh, Yee Whye, Kenichi Kurihara, & Max Welling. (2007). Collapsed Variational Inference for HDP. UCL Discovery (University College London). 20. 1481–1488. 86 indexed citations
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Newman, David, Padhraic Smyth, Max Welling, & Arthur Asuncion. (2007). Distributed Inference for Latent Dirichlet Allocation. Neural Information Processing Systems. 20. 1081–1088. 133 indexed citations
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Welling, Max. (2005). Robust Higher Order Statistics.. International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics. 21 indexed citations
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Welling, Max. (2004). On the choice of regions for generalized belief propagation. Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence. 585–592. 26 indexed citations
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Welling, Max, Michal Rosen‐Zvi, & Geoffrey E. Hinton. (2004). Exponential Family Harmoniums with an Application to Information Retrieval. Neural Information Processing Systems. 17. 1481–1488. 264 indexed citations breakdown →
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Teh, Yee Whye & Max Welling. (2003). On Improving the Efficiency of the Iterative Proportional Fitting Procedure. International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics. 262–269. 15 indexed citations
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Welling, Max, Richard S. Zemel, & Geoffrey E. Hinton. (2002). Self Supervised Boosting. Neural Information Processing Systems. 15. 681–688. 23 indexed citations
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Welling, Max & Geoffrey E. Hinton. (2001). Approximate Contrastive Free Energies for Learning in Undirected Graphical Models. Unfallchirurgie. 11(6). 275–7.

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