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Estimating ecosystem-atmosphere fluxes such as evapotranspiration (ET) in a robust manner and at a global scale remains a challenge. Methods based on machine learning (ML) have shown promising results in achieving such upscaling, providing a complementary ...

2025

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Ramin Mohammadi, Nikolaos Stergiopoulos, Georgios Rovas, Lydia Aslanidou, Sokratis Anagnostopoulos

Monitoring of cardiac output (CO) is a mainstay of hemodynamic management in the acutely or critically ill patient. Invasive determination of CO using thermodilution, albeit regarded as the gold standard, is cumbersome and bears risks inherent to catheteri ...

2025

Quantifying the Unknown: Data-Driven Approaches and Applications in Energy Systems

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In light of the challenges posed by climate change and the goals of the Paris Agreement, electricity generation is shifting to a more renewable and decentralized pattern, while the operation of systems like buildings is increasingly electrified. This calls ...

EPFL2024

Integer Linear Programming for Unsupervised Training Set Selection in Molecular Machine Learning

Anne-Clémence Corminboeuf, Friedrich Eisenbrand, Rubén Laplaza Solanas, Puck Elisabeth van Gerwen, Ksenia Briling, Jan Weinreich, Matthieu Nicolas Haeberle

Integer linear programming (ILP) is an elegant approach to solve linear optimization problems, naturally described using integer decision variables. Within the context of physics-inspired machine learning (ML) applied to chemistry, we demonstrate the relev ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2025

Topics in statistical physics of high-dimensional machine learning

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In the past few years, Machine Learning (ML) techniques have ushered in a paradigm shift, allowing the harnessing of ever more abundant sources of data to automate complex tasks. The technical workhorse behind these important breakthroughs arguably lies in ...

EPFL2024

Enhancing skin lesion classification: a CNN approach with human baseline comparison

Zaffar Ahmed Shaikh

This study presents an augmented hybrid approach for improving the diagnosis of malignant skin lesions by combining convolutional neural network (CNN) predictions with selective human interventions based on prediction confidence. The algorithm retains high ...

PeerJ2025

In-Sensor Passive Speech Classification with Phononic Metamaterials

Luis Guillermo Villanueva Torrijo, Daniel Moreno Garcia

Mitigating the energy requirements of artificial intelligence requires novel physical substrates for computation. Phononic metamaterials have vanishingly low power dissipation and hence are a prime candidate for green, always-on computers. However, their u ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2024

A Stochastic Approach to Contact-rich Manipulation

Julius Maximilian Jankowski

For robots to operate in unstructured environments, they are required to interact with objects through contact. Those contacts may be used to push objects to the side, deform objects, or manipulate objects in-hand. This thesis addresses the problem of cont ...

EPFL2025

Understanding generalization and robustness in modern deep learning

Maksym Andriushchenko

In this thesis, we study two closely related directions: robustness and generalization in modern deep learning. Deep learning models based on empirical risk minimization are known to be often non-robust to small, worst-case perturbations known as adversari ...

EPFL2024

A Study on Quantum Graph Neural Networks Applied to Molecular Physics

Su Yeon Chang

This paper introduces a novel architecture for Quantum Graph Neural Networks, which is significantly different from previous approaches found in the literature. The proposed approach produces similar outcomes with respect to previous models but with fewer ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2025

Reliable data-driven decision-making through optimal transport

Bahar Taskesen

Decision-making permeates every aspect of human and societal development, from individuals' daily choices to the complex decisions made by communities and institutions. Central to effective decision-making is the discipline of optimization, which seeks th ...

EPFL2024

Adapting Fine-Grained Cross-View Localization to Areas Without Fine Ground Truth

Zimin Xia

Given a ground-level query image and a geo-referenced aerial image that covers the query’s local surroundings, fine-grained cross-view localization aims to estimate the location of the ground camera inside the aerial image. Recent works have focused on dev ...

Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH2025

Few-shot Learning for Efficient and Effective Machine Learning Model Adaptation

Arnout Jan J Devos

Machine learning (ML) enables artificial intelligent (AI) agents to learn autonomously from data obtained from their environment to perform tasks. Modern ML systems have proven to be extremely effective, reaching or even exceeding human intelligence. Altho ...

EPFL2024

Machine Learning in Decision-Making Systems: Fairness, Robustness, and Data Bias

Yves Rychener

Machine learning is increasingly integrated with decision making by powering automated systems and informing human decision makers in applications such as CV screening, portfolio allocation, loan risk assessment, and insurance approval. In this thesis, I e ...

EPFL2025

Fusing Pre-existing Knowledge and Machine Learning for Enhanced Building Thermal Modeling and Control

Loris Di Natale

Buildings play a pivotal role in the ongoing worldwide energy transition, accounting for 30% of the global energy consumption. With traditional engineering solutions reaching their limits to tackle such large-scale problems, data-driven methods and Machine ...

EPFL2024

Retrieval of Surface Solar Radiation through Implicit Albedo Recovery from Temporal Context

Michael Lehning, Devis Tuia, Yael Frischholz

To retrieve Surface Solar Radiation (SSR) from satellite images, a baseline reflectance of the observed ground in clear-sky conditions, also called background reflectance, is necessary to distinguish atmospheric absorption and scattering effects from surfa ...

2025

Neural Garment Modeling

Ren Li

The digitization of 3D deformable objects remains a significant challenge in computer graphics and vision, particularly in the accurate modeling of garments. Garments exhibit complex shape variability, non-rigid deformations, and frequent self-occlusion, m ...

EPFL2025

Machine learning-aided generative molecular design

Philippe Schwaller, Jeff Guo

Machine learning has provided a means to accelerate early-stage drug discovery by combining molecule generation and filtering steps in a single architecture that leverages the experience and design preferences of medicinal chemists. However, designing mach ...

Nature Portfolio2024

Edge-Cloud Collaborated Object Detection via Bandwidth Adaptive Difficult-Case Discriminator

Yung-Cheng Chiang

Object detection, a fundamental task in computer vision, is crucial for various intelligent edge computing applications. However, object detection algorithms are usually heavy in computation, hindering their deployments on resource-constrained edge devices ...

2025

Boosting likelihood learning with event reweighting

Andrea Wulzer, Alfredo Glioti, Siyu Chen

Extracting maximal information from experimental data requires access to the likelihood function, which however is never directly available for complex experiments like those performed at high energy colliders. Theoretical predictions are obtained in this ...

Springer Nature2024