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Collaborative AI Agents in the Era of Large Language Models

Developing agents that can reliably act on our behalf is central to artificial intelligence (AI). These agents must seamlessly interact with tools, like search engines and databases, and collaborate. In this thesis, we study the abstractions, methods, and ...

EPFL2025

On the conversational persuasiveness of GPT-4

Francesco Salvi, Robert West

Early work has found that large language models (LLMs) can generate persuasive content. However, evidence on whether they can also personalize arguments to individual attributes remains limited, despite being crucial for assessing misuse. This preregistere ...

Springer Science and Business Media LLC2025

MetaCap: Meta-learning Priors from Multi-view Imagery for Sparse-View Human Performance Capture and Rendering

Pascal Fua

Faithful human performance capture and free-view rendering from sparse RGB observations is a long-standing problem in Vision and Graphics. The main challenges are the lack of observations and the inherent ambiguities of the setting, e.g. occlusions and dep ...

Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH2025

GRADE: Generating Realistic and Dynamic Environments for robotics research with Isaac Sim

Chenghao Xu

Photorealistic synthetic data and novel rendering techniques significantly advanced computer vision research. However, datasets focused on computer vision applications cannot be easily applied to robotics because they typically lack physics-related informa ...

SAGE Publications2025

MammAlps: A multi-view video behavior monitoring dataset of wild mammals in the Swiss Alps

Devis Tuia, Alexander Mathis, Valentin Alexandre Guy Gabeff

MammAlps is a multimodal and multi-view dataset of wildlife behavior monitoring. Nine camera-traps were placed at three monitoring sites in the Swiss National Park, from which we curated over 14 hours of video with audio, 2D segmentation maps and 8.5 hours ...

Zenodo2025

Towards more Practical Threat Models in Artificial Intelligence Security

Alexandre Massoud Alahi, Kathrin Grosse

Recent works have identified a gap between research and practice in artificial intelligence security: threats studied in academia do not always reflect the practical use and security risks of AI. For example, while models are often studied in isolation, th ...

Usenix Association2024

Collective Memory Through Computer Memories: Retracing and Interpreting the Archive of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

Alina Volynskaya

Articulating the interplay between collective memory and artificial intelligence, this paper examines the SAILDART archive, a unique digital collection derived from the backup tapes of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (SAIL). Preserved somew ...

Brill2024

When Subtyping Constraints Liberate A Novel Type Inference Approach for First-Class Polymorphism

Lionel Emile Vincent Parreaux, Aleksander Slawomir Boruch-Gruszecki

Type inference in the presence of first-class or "impredicative" second-order polymorphism a la System F has been an active research area for several decades, with original works dating back to the end of the 80s. Yet, until now many basic problems remain ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2024

AI-Generated Inventions: Implications for the Patent System

Gaétan Jean A de Rassenfosse

This symposium Article discusses issues raised for patent processes and policy created by inventions generated by artificial intelligence (“AI”). The Article begins by examining the normative desirability of allowing patents on AI-generated inventions. Whi ...

2024

Building on Efficient Foundations: Effectively Training LLMs with Structured Feedforward Layers

Xiuying Wei, Caglar Gulcehre, Skander Moalla

State-of-the-art results in large language models (LLMs) often rely on scale, which becomes computationally expensive. This has sparked a research agenda to reduce these models' parameter counts and computational costs without significantly impacting their ...

2024

A journey toward generalizable trajectory forecasting models

Mohammadhossein Bahari

Autonomous driving is a revolutionary technology that has seen considerable advancements through the adoption of deep learning solutions. One of the major challenges in this field is the interaction with other road users. This interaction necessitates a "t ...

EPFL2024

Beyond Essentials: Nuanced and Diverse Text-to-video Retrieval

Yuchen Yang

The field of text-to-video retrieval has advanced significantly with the evolution of language models and large-scale pre-training on generated caption-video pairs. Current methods predominantly focus on visual and event-based details, making retrieval lar ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.2024

Monotonicity Reasoning in the Age of Neural Foundation Models

Zeming Chen

The recent advance of large language models (LLMs) demonstrates that these large-scale foundation models achieve remarkable capabilities across a wide range of language tasks and domains. The success of the statistical learning approach challenges our unde ...

Springer2023

A Conceptual Framework for Integrating Conversational Agents in Digital Education

Juan Carlos Farah

The presence of conversational agents (or chatbots) in educational contexts has been steadily increasing over the past few years. Recent surveys have shown widespread interest in the use of chatbots in education, both for research and practice. Although th ...

EPFL2023

Towards Robust Monitoring of the Laser Powder Bed Fusion Process based on Acoustic Emission combined with Machine Learning Solutions

Rita Drissi Daoudi

Laser Powder Bed Fusion (LPBF) is an Additive Manufacturing (AM) process consolidating parts layer by layer, from a metallic powder bed. It allows no limitation in terms of geometry and is therefore of particular interest to various industries. Metallic LP ...

EPFL2023

Smart filter aided domain adversarial neural network for fault diagnosis in noisy industrial scenarios

Olga Fink, Gaëtan Michel Frusque

The application of unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA)-based fault diagnosis methods has shown significant efficacy in industrial settings, facilitating the transfer of operational experience and fault signatures between different operating conditions, di ...

2023

A note on universal inference

Anthony Christopher Davison, Timmy Rong Tian Tse

Universal inference enables the construction of confidence intervals and tests without regularity conditions by splitting the data into two parts and appealing to Markov's inequality. Previous investigations have shown that the cost of this generality is a ...

WILEY2022

Supporting Therapists’ Assessment in Parent-Mediated Training through Autonomous Data Collection

Daniel Carnieto Tozadore

Parental Training is a methodology where therapists teach caregivers how to train their kids in specific behaviors practicing. It can be used in verbal behavior acquisition for children with autism mediated by the parents. In this paper, we are presenting ...

2022