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About me

Hi there 👋 My name is Adrián, and I am a PhD student at the Probabilistic Machine Learning group under the supervision of Isabel Valera at Saarland University. I am also an alumnus of the Empirical Inference department at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems. Before pursuing my PhD, I completed a Master in Computer Science and a double Bachelor Degree in Computer Science Engineering and Mathematics at the University of Murcia.

I am mostly interested in principled research that aims to improve machine learning methods, making them easier to use and more robust. Specifically, my current research focuses on improving models that optimize different tasks simultaneously. This includes apparently unrelated areas such as multitask learning (MTL) and deep probabilistic generative models (e.g. VAEs) under heterogeneous environments. 

However, I am a curiosity-driven, and I am always happy to discuss interesting ideas even if they lie outside my comfort zone. Feel free to reach me out via Twitter or email.

Publications

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2026

Koyuncu, Batuhan; Kwon, Byeungchun; Lombardi, Marco Jacopo; Perez-Cruz, Fernando; Shin, Hyun Song

BISTRO: a general purpose oracle for macroeconomic time series Journal Article

In: 2026.

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Koyuncu, Batuhan; Kwon, Byeungchun; Lombardi, Marco Jacopo; Perez-Cruz, Fernando; Shin, Hyun Song

Introducing BISTRO: a foundational model for unconditional and conditional forecasting of macroeconomic time series Journal Article

In: 2026.

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Koyuncu, Batuhan; Kwon, Byeungchun; Lombardi, Marco; Perez-Cruz, Fernando; Shin, Hyun Song

A foundational model for macroeconomic times series forecasting and nowcasting Journal Article

In: 2026.

BibTeX | Tags: batu

2025

Peis, Ignacio; Koyuncu, Batuhan; Valera, Isabel; Frellsen, Jes

Hyper-Transforming Latent Diffusion Models Journal Article

In: CoRR, vol. abs/2504.16580, 2025.

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Koyuncu, Batuhan; DeVries, Rachael; Winther, Ole; Valera, Isabel

Temporal Variational Implicit Neural Representations Journal Article

In: CoRR, vol. abs/2506.01544, 2025.

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2024

Koyuncu, Batuhan; Bauerschmidt, Tim Nico; Valera, Isabel

E-ProTran: Efficient Probabilistic Transformers for Forecasting Proceedings Article

In: ICML 2024 Workshop on Structured Probabilistic Inference & Generative Modeling, 2024.

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Koyuncu, Batuhan; Kıran, Aleyna Dilan; Heilmann, Katja; Hamid, Laith; Buder, Anja; Engert, Veronika; Walter, Martin; Valera, Isabel

From Laboratory to Everyday Life: Personalized Stress Prediction via Smartwatches Proceedings Article

In: ICML'24 Workshop ML for Life and Material Science: From Theory to Industry Applications, 2024.

Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: batu, isabel

2023

Koyuncu, Batuhan; Sánchez-Mart'ın, Pablo; Peis, Ignacio; Olmos, Pablo M.; Valera, Isabel

Variational Mixture of HyperGenerators for Learning Distributions Over Functions Journal Article

In: CoRR, vol. abs/2302.06223, 2023.

Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: batu, isabel, pablo

Parlatan, Ugur; Ozen, Mehmet Ozgun; Kecoglu, Ibrahim; Koyuncu, Batuhan; Torun, Hulya; Khalafkhany, Davod; Loc, Irem; Ogut, Mehmet Giray; Inci, Fatih; Akin, Demir; Solaroglu, Ihsan; Ozoren, Nesrin; Unlu, Mehmet Burcin; Demirci, Utkan

Label-Free Identification of Exosomes using Raman Spectroscopy and Machine Learning Journal Article

In: Small, vol. 19, no. 9, pp. 2205519, 2023.

Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: batu, exosome, extracellular vesicles, neural networks, Raman spectroscopy

2022

Koyuncu, Batuhan; Melek, Ahmet; Yilmaz, Defne; Tuzer, Mert; Unlu, Mehmet Burcin

Chemotherapy Response Prediction with Diffuser Elapser Network Journal Article

In: Scientific Reports, vol. 12, iss. 1, pp. 1-13, 2022.

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2021

Koyuncu, Batuhan

Analysis of ODE2VAE with Examples Journal Article

In: CoRR, vol. abs/2108.04899, 2021.

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