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IOP Publishing Ltd2025

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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

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

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SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD2025

Performing and Detecting Backdoor Attacks on Face Recognition Algorithms

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EPFL2024

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IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2025

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Academic Press Inc Elsevier Science2024

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Statistical Inference for Inverse Problems: From Sparsity-Based Methods to Neural Networks

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In inverse problems, the task is to reconstruct an unknown signal from its possibly noise-corrupted measurements. Penalized-likelihood-based estimation and Bayesian estimation are two powerful statistical paradigms for the resolution of such problems. They ...

EPFL2024

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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

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 ...

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Learning to Assemble with Alternative Plans

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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

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EPFL2024

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

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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

Robust machine learning for neuroscientific inference

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Modern neuroscience research is generating increasingly large datasets, from recording thousands of neurons over long timescales to behavioral recordings of animals spanning weeks, months, or even years. Despite a great variety in recording setups and expe ...

EPFL2024

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

Lenka Zdeborová, Florent Gérard Krzakala, Hugo Chao Cui, Freya Behrens

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

Generalization of Scaled Deep ResNets in the Mean-Field Regime

Volkan Cevher, Grigorios Chrysos, Fanghui Liu

Despite the widespread empirical success of ResNet, the generalization properties of deep ResNet are rarely explored beyond the lazy training regime. In this work, we investigate scaled ResNet in the limit of infinitely deep and wide neural networks, of wh ...

2024

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

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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

Robust NAS under adversarial training: benchmark, theory, and beyond

Volkan Cevher, Grigorios Chrysos, Fanghui Liu, Yongtao Wu

Recent developments in neural architecture search (NAS) emphasize the significance of considering robust architectures against malicious data. However, there is a notable absence of benchmark evaluations and theoretical guarantees for searching these robus ...

2024

Feature-based encoding of face identity by single neurons in the human amygdala and hippocampus

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Neurons in the human amygdala and hippocampus are classically thought to encode a person’s identity invariant to visual features. However, it remains largely unknown how visual information from higher visual cortical areas is translated into such a semanti ...

2025

Error assessment of an adaptive finite elements-neural networks method for an elliptic parametric PDE

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We present a finite elements-neural network approach for the numerical approximation of parametric partial differential equations. The algorithm generates training data from finite element simulations, and uses a data -driven (supervised) feedforward neura ...

Elsevier Science Sa2024