Klas Wijk

PhD Student at KTH Royal Institute of Technology

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Lindstedtsvägen 24

Stockholm, Sweden

About

I am a PhD student in Computer Science at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, supervised by Hossein Azizpour, and co-supervised by Ricardo Vinuesa at the University of Michigan. My expected graduation date is in late 2027. Before starting my PhD, I received a BSc in Computer Science and an MSc in Applied and Computational Mathematics at KTH.

My research is focused on different aspects of top-k: relaxations, sampling, and gradient estimation. I have also worked on generative models and inverse problems in fluid mechanics as part of a collaborative project. More generally, I am interested in all things machine learning, statistics, and applied mathematics.

My PhD is funded by the Swedish e-Science Research Centre (SeRC). I am also part of the Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program (WASP), the largest research program in Sweden.

News

Jan 14, 2026 Attended the yearly WASP Winter Conference and presented a poster.
Oct 31, 2025 Poster accepted to the EurIPS’25 DiffSys Workshop in Copenhagen! 🇩🇰
Oct 14, 2025 Poster accepted to the ELLIS UnConference in Copenhagen! 🇩🇰
Apr 28, 2025 Attended ICLR 2025 in Singapore and presented a poster! 🇸🇬
Jan 22, 2025 Paper accepted to ICLR 2025.

Latest posts

Selected publications

  1. Differentiable Top-k: From One-Hot to k-Hot
    Klas Wijk, Ricardo Vinuesa, and Hossein Azizpour
    EurIPS 2025 Workshop on Differentiable Systems and Scientific Machine Learning, 2025
  2. SFESS: Score Function Estimators for k-Subset Sampling
    Klas Wijk, Ricardo Vinuesa, and Hossein Azizpour
    International Conference on Learning Representations, 2025
  3. Indirectly Parameterized Concrete Autoencoders
    Alfred Nilsson, Klas Wijk, Sai Gutha, and 7 more authors
    International Conference on Machine Learning, 2024