Murat Onur Yildirim

Murat Onur Yildirim

Doctoral researcher · AMOR/e Lab · TU Eindhoven

I work on continual adaptation across the machine learning lifecycle, under the supervision of Joaquin Vanschoren. I develop neuroscience-inspired methods that let models acquire, retain, and update knowledge in non-stationary environments; spanning continual pre-training, parameter-efficient post-training, and large-scale foundation model adaptation.

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News

Recent milestones. The full archive is a click away.

"Coresets are more than replay: a data-centric view of continual learning" published in Neural Computing and Applications.

"Automated Machine Learning for Unsupervised Tabular Tasks" accepted to MLJ.

"Unlocking [CLS] Features for Continual Post-Training" accepted to TMLR.

"Pruned Adaptation Modules" accepted to CPAL.

"Self-Regulated Neurogenesis for Online Data-Incremental Learning" accepted for an oral presentation at CoLLAs.

Joined the General Assembly of the EU project SYNERGIES in Paris, France.

Participated in the "Learning Over Time" spring school at Certosa di Pontignano, Italy.

Attended the GeMMS summer school on generative modelling at TU Eindhoven.

"Continual Learning with Dynamic Sparse Training" accepted for an oral presentation at CPAL.

"AdaCL: Adaptive Continual Learning" accepted for an oral presentation at CLAI.

"Condition Monitoring and Predictive Maintenance in Railways" granted an international patent.

AutoML for hole-selective layers in perovskite solar cells published in Energy Technology.

"Predicting Perovskite Bandgap and Solar Cell Performance with ML" published in Solar RRL.

ML for metal-oxide polymer composites in perovskite solar cells published in ChemPlusChem.

Comparison of ML models on electrochromic devices published in ACS Omega.

Publications

Selected work on continual learning, and earlier work on ML for materials science.

NCAA 2026

Coresets are more than replay: a data-centric view of continual learning

Elif Ceren Gok Yildirim, Murat Onur Yildirim, Joaquin Vanschoren

TMLR 2026NeurIPS 2025 CCFM

Unlocking [CLS] features for continual post-training

Murat Onur Yildirim, Elif Ceren Gok Yildirim, Joaquin Vanschoren

CPAL 2026NeurIPS 2025 CCFM

Pruned adaptation modules: a simple yet strong baseline for continual foundation models

Elif Ceren Gok Yildirim, Murat Onur Yildirim, Joaquin Vanschoren

CoLLAs 2025oral

Self-regulated neurogenesis for online data-incremental learning

Murat Onur Yildirim, Elif Ceren Gok Yildirim, Decebal Constantin Mocanu, Joaquin Vanschoren

ContinualAI 2024oral

AdaCL: adaptive continual learning

Elif Ceren Gok Yildirim, Murat Onur Yildirim, Mert Kilickaya, Joaquin Vanschoren

CPAL 2024oral

Continual learning with dynamic sparse training: exploring algorithms for effective model updates

Murat Onur Yildirim, Elif Ceren Gok Yildirim, Ghada Sokar, Decebal Constantin Mocanu, Joaquin Vanschoren

Energy Technology 2023

Automated machine learning in material discovery of hole selective layers for perovskite solar cells

Murat Onur Yildirim, Elif Ceren Gok Yildirim, Esin Eren, Peng Huang, Muhammed Haris, Samrana Kazim, Joaquin Vanschoren, Aysegul Uygun Oksuz, Shahzada Ahmad

Solar RRL 2022

Predicting perovskite bandgap and solar cell performance with machine learning

Elif Ceren Gok, Murat Onur Yildirim, Muhammed Haris, Esin Eren, Meenakshi Pegu, Naveen Harindu Hemasiri, Peng Huang, Samrana Kazim, Aysegul Uygun Oksuz, Shahzada Ahmad

ChemPlusChem 2021

A machine learning approach for metal oxide based polymer composites as charge selective layers in perovskite solar cells

Murat Onur Yildirim, Elif Ceren Gok, Naveen Harindu Hemasiri, Esin Eren, Samrana Kazim, Aysegul Uygun Oksuz, Shahzada Ahmad

ACS Omega 2020

Comparison of machine learning models on performance of single- and dual-type electrochromic devices

Elif Ceren Gok, Murat Onur Yildirim, Esin Eren, Aysegul Uygun Oksuz

Supervision

If you are excited about efficient adaptation and post-training strategies, I would love to brainstorm ideas and support your journey in a collaborative, low-pressure environment. I have been lucky to work with these talented and curious people:

Danushkumar Venkadesh Danushkumar Venkadesh Clover: revisit-aware benchmark suite for continual post-training of foundation models · 2026, ongoing
Shreya Sajid Shreya Sajid Muting tokens: exploring token sparsification for efficient audio transformers · co-supervised by NXP, 2025
Athira Kulampurath Athira Kulampurath Reliability and uncertainty in foundation model-based class-incremental learning · 2025
Coen Schouten Coen Schouten On-the-fly curriculum design for online class-incremental learning · cum laude, 2024thesis