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Now is an exciting time for the domain of Earth observation (EO), with a multitude of diverse sensors looking at the planet from satellites, airplanes or drones. The volume of imagery acquired is massive, and hold great potential for a variety of applicati ...

EPFL2025

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Wulfram Gerstner, Guillaume Emmanuel Fernand Bellec, Martin Louis Lucien Rémy Barry

“You never forget how to ride a bike”, – but how is that possible? The brain is able to learn complex skills, stop the practice for years, learn other skills in between, and still retrieve the original knowledge when necessary. The mechanisms of this capab ...

Elsevier BV2025

Eflop: a Sparsity-aware Metric for Evaluating Computational Cost in Spiking and Non-spiking Neural Networks

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Deploying energy-efficient deep neural networks on energy-constrained edge devices is an important research topic in both machine learning and circuit design communities. Both artificial neural networks (ANNs) and spiking neural networks (SNNs) have been p ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2025

How Gradient Descent Balances Features: A Dynamical Analysis For Two-Layer Neural Networks

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This paper investigates the fundamental regression task of learning k neurons (a.k.a. teachers) from Gaussian input, using two-layer ReLU neural networks with width m (a.k.a. students) and m, k = O(1), trained via gradient descent under proper initializati ...

2025

Mspo: a Machine Learning Hyperparameter Optimization Method for Enhanced Breast Cancer Image Classification

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As one of the major threats to women's health worldwide, breast cancer requires early diagnosis and accurate classification, since they are key to optimizing therapeutic interventions and ensuring precise prognosis. Recently, deep learning has demonstrated ...

SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD2025

A Closer Look at Benchmarking Self-supervised Pre-training with Image Classification

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Self-supervised learning (SSL) is a machine learning approach where the data itself provides supervision, eliminating the need for external labels. The model is forced to learn about the data's inherent structure or context by solving a pretext task. With ...

SPRINGER2025

Probing the latent hierarchical structure of data via diffusion models

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High-dimensional data must be highly structured to be learnable. Although the compositional and hierarchical nature of data is often put forward to explain learnability, quantitative measurements establishing these properties are scarce. Likewise, accessin ...

2025

Foundations of a New Learning Paradigm in AI Grounded in the Principles of Evolutionary Developmental Biology

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Contemporary AI faces important limitations that remain unresolved despite significant successes. Chief among these are the inability to acquire new knowledge without destroying old, the incomprehensible and nonengineerable nature of internal representatio ...

EPFL2025

Posterior-Based Analysis of Spatio-Temporal Features for Sign Language Assessment

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Sign Language conveys information through multiple channels composed of manual (handshape, hand movement) and non-manual (facial expression, mouthing, body posture) components. Sign language assessment involves giving granular feedback to a learner, in ter ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2025

Domain shift, domain adaptation, and generalization: A focus on MRI

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Differences in acquisition protocols or hardware result in measurable changes in image characteristics. These differences affect distributional properties and can also affect the spatial and temporal characteristics of the images. Likewise, the distributio ...

Academic Press2025

A phase transition between positional and semantic learning in a solvable model of dot-product attention

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Many empirical studies have provided evidence for the emergence of algorithmic mechanisms (abilities) in the learning of language models, that lead to qualitative improvements in the model capabilities. Yet, a theoretical characterization of how such mecha ...

2025

Improving the accuracy and interpretability of neural networks for wind power forecasting

Fernando Porté Agel, Jiannong Fang, Wenlong Liao

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are receiving increasing attention in wind power forecasting due to their ability to effectively capture complex patterns in wind data. However, their forecast errors are severely limited by the local optimal weight issue in opt ...

2025

Self-supervised and few-shot learning for robust bioaerosol monitoring

Sophie Catherine Erb

Real-time bioaerosol monitoring is improving the quality of life for people affected by allergies, but it often relies on deep learning models which pose challenges for widespread adoption. These models are typically trained in a supervised fashion and req ...

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Learning to Assemble with Alternative Plans

Gabriel Rémi Vallat, Maryam Kamgarpour, Stefana Parascho, Ziqi Wang, Jingwen Wang

We present a reinforcement learning framework for constructing assemblies composed of rigid parts, which are commonly seen in many historical masonry buildings and bridges. Traditional construction methods for such structures often depend on dense scaffold ...

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)2025

DEMO: Dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs) for the restoration of facial movements

Yves Perriard, Yoan René Cyrille Civet, Stefania Maria Aliki Konstantinidi, Simon Holzer, Andres Osorio Salazar, Marc Michel Charles Favier

Facial paralysis is a highly burdening condition, resulting in a patient's inability to move his musculature on one or both sides of the mouth. The restoration of facial movement is crucial for enhancing the overall patients' quality of life. The use of DE ...

SPIE2025

Fifty Shades of Vision: How Does Spatiotemporal Context Influence Perception?

Ayberk Ozkirli

This thesis investigates how spatiotemporal context influences visual perception, critically evaluating two dominant frameworks in vision science: traditional feedforward and Bayesian integration models. Traditional models propose that perception is constr ...

EPFL2025

ThermoNeRF: A multimodal Neural Radiance Field for joint RGB-thermal novel view synthesis of building facades

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Thermal scene reconstruction holds great potential for various applications, such as building energy analysis and non-destructive infrastructure testing. However, existing methods rely on dense scene measurements and use RGB images for 3D reconstruction, i ...

2025

GraphFedAI framework for DDoS attack detection in IoT systems using federated learning and graph based artificial intelligence

Zaffar Ahmed Shaikh

The Internet of Things (IoT) consists of physical objects and devices embedded with network connectivity, software, and sensors to collect and transmit data. The development of the Internet of Things (IoT) has led to various security and privacy issues, in ...

2025

Using deep reinforcement learning to investigate stretch feedback during swimming of the lamprey

Auke Ijspeert, Astha Gupta

Animals have to navigate complex environments and perform intricate swimming maneuvers in the real world. To conquer these challenges, animals evolved a variety of motion control strategies. While it is known that many factors contribute to motion control, ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2025

Generative AI Literacy: Twelve Defining Competencies

Ravinithesh Reddy Annapureddy, Daniel Gatica-Perez

This article introduces a competency-based model for generative artificial intelligence (AI) literacy covering essential skills and knowledge areas necessary to interact with generative AI. The competencies range from foundational AI literacy to prompt eng ...

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