I am currently a PhD student at LMU Munich. My research topics include combinatorial optimization, in particular Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization and Satisfiability, and its symbiosis with reinforcement learning and deep neural networks to learn representations for unstructured NP-complete problems. Here you can find my Curriculum Vitae.


Selected Publications

Algorithmic QUBO formulations for k-SAT and Hamiltonian Cycles [pdf] [code] [blog]
Jonas Nüßlein, Thomas Gabor, Claudia Linnhoff-Popien, Sebastian Feld
GECCO 2022

Mapping Quantum Circuits to modular architectures with QUBO [pdf] [code]
Medina Bandic, Luise Prielinger, Jonas Nüßlein, Anabel Ovide, Santiago Rodrigo, Sergi Abadal, Hans van Someren, Gayane Vardoyan, Eduard Alarcon, Carmen G Almudever, Sebastian Feld
2023 IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE)

Solving (max) 3-SAT via quadratic unconstrained binary optimization [pdf] [code]
Jonas Nüßlein, Sebastian Zielinski, Thomas Gabor, Claudia Linnhoff-Popien, Sebastian Feld
ICCS 2023

Black box optimization using QUBO and the cross entropy method [pdf] [code]
Jonas Nüßlein, Christoph Roch, Thomas Gabor, Jonas Stein, Claudia Linnhoff-Popien, Sebastian Feld
ICCS 2023

Evidence that PUBO outperforms QUBO when solving continuous optimization problems with the QAOA [pdf]
Jonas Stein, Farbod Chamanian, Maximilian Zorn, Jonas Nüßlein, Sebastian Zielinski, Michael Kölle, Claudia Linnhoff-Popien
GECCO 2023

Attention-based recurrence for multi-agent reinforcement learning under stochastic partial observability [pdf]
Thomy Phan, Fabian Ritz, Philipp Altmann, Maximilian Zorn, Jonas Nüßlein, Michael Kölle, Thomas Gabor, Claudia Linnhoff-Popien
ICML 2023

Case-Based Inverse Reinforcement Learning Using Temporal Coherence [pdf] [code]
Jonas Nüßlein, Steffen Illium, Robert Müller, Thomas Gabor, Claudia Linnhoff-Popien
ICCBR 2022

CROP: towards distributional-shift robust reinforcement learning using compact reshaped observation processing [pdf]
Philipp Altmann, Fabian Ritz, Leonard Feuchtinger, Jonas Nüßlein, Claudia Linnhoff-Popien, Thomy Phan
IJCAI 2023

Emergent Cooperation from Mutual Acknowledgment Exchange in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning [pdf]
Thomy Phan, Felix Sommer, Fabian Ritz, Philipp Altmann, Jonas Nüßlein, Michael Kölle, Lenz Belzner, Claudia Linnhoff-Popien
AAMAS 2022

The Effect of Penalty Factors of Constrained Hamiltonians on the Eigenspectrum in Quantum Annealing [pdf]
Christoph Roch, Daniel Ratke, Jonas Nüßlein, Thomas Gabor, Sebastian Feld
ACM Transactions on Quantum Computing 2023

NISQ-ready community detection based on separation-node identification [pdf]
Jonas Stein, Dominik Ott, Jonas Nüßlein, David Bucher, Mirco Schönfeld, Sebastian Feld
Journal on Mathematics 2023