Postdoctoral researcher · University of Göttingen
Moritz Piening
I work on computational optimal transport, generative modeling, and geometric machine learning.
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About
I’m a postdoctoral researcher in the Optimal Transport Group at the University of Göttingen, working with Prof. Dr. Bernhard Schmitzer. I completed my PhD in Applied Mathematics at TU Berlin under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Gabriele Steidl.
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Publications
Titles link to the paper or official proceedings page.
- 2026Alignment Matters Inside and Out in Equivariant Graph Flow Matching
M. Piening, C. Wald · arXiv
- 2026SOL: Measuring Gaps between Text Distributions by Double Sliced Wasserstein Metrics
G. Kornhardt, M. Piening, J. Chemseddine, G. Steidl · arXiv
- 2026Generalized Wasserstein Flow Matching: Transport Plans, Everywhere, All at Once
M. Piening, R. Duong, G. Steidl · NeurIPS 2026
- 2026HOT-POT: Optimal Transport for Sparse Stereo Matching
A. Clerc, M. Quellmalz, M. Piening, P. Flotho, G. Kornhardt, G. Steidl · JMIV
- 2026Slicing Wasserstein Over Wasserstein Via Functional Optimal Transport
M. Piening, R. Beinert · ICLR 2026
- 2026A Novel Sliced Fused Gromov-Wasserstein Distance
M. Piening*, R. Beinert* · AAAI 2026 Oral
- 2026Paired Wasserstein Autoencoders for Conditional Sampling
M. Piening, M. Chung · DeLTa Workshop at ICLR 2026
- 2025Slicing the Gaussian Mixture Wasserstein Distance
M. Piening*, R. Beinert* · TMLR
- 2025Joint Metric Space Embedding by Unbalanced OT with Gromov-Wasserstein Marginal Penalization
F. Beier*, M. Piening*, R. Beinert, G. Steidl · ICML 2025
- 2025Conditional Generative Models for Contrast-Enhanced Synthesis of T1w and T1 Maps in Brain MRI
M. Piening, F. Altekrüger, G. Steidl, E. Hattingen, E. Steidl* · ISBI 2025 Oral
- 2025T-FAKE: Synthesizing Thermal Images for Facial Landmarking
P. Flotho*, M. Piening*, A. Kukleva, G. Steidl · CVPR 2025
- 2024Learning from Small Data Sets: Patch-Based Regularizers in Inverse Problems for Image Reconstruction
M. Piening, F. Altekrüger, J. Hertrich, P. Hagemann, A. Walther, G. Steidl · GAMM-Mitteilungen
- 2022KI-basierte Analyse des Einflusses von Wetter auf die Fahrgeschwindigkeiten von Fernbussen und Lastkraftwagen
D. Plavcan, E. Lukau, M. Klafft, M. Piening · UIS 2022
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