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Deep learning has shown remarkable potential for industrial applications, particularly in predictive maintenance and condition monitoring. A key challenge in this domain is prognostics, specifically predicting the Remaining Useful Life (RUL) of assets - a ...

EPFL2025

K-space physics-informed neural network (k-PINN) for compressed spectral mapping and efficient inversion of vibrations in thin composite laminates

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The vibrational response of structural components carries valuable information about their underlying mechanical properties, health status and operational conditions. This underscores the need for the development of efficient physics-based inversion algori ...

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Boosting Resource-Constrained Federated Learning Systems with Guessed Updates

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Federated learning (FL) enables a set of client devices to collaboratively train a model without sharing raw data. This process, though, operates under the constrained computation and communication resources of edge devices. These constraints combined with ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)2025

Sequential Reasoning with Socially Caused Beliefs

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Machine learning and artificial intelligence methods have achieved remarkable success, matching and even surpassing human capabilities in various complex tasks. However, many demonstrations have generally neglected a critical part of the intelligence that ...

EPFL2025

On the Perspectives of Image-to-Lidar Constraints in Dynamic Network Optimisation

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The evolution of airborne mapping witnesses the introduction of hybrid lidar-camera systems to enhance data collection, i.e. to obtain simultaneously high-density point-cloud and texture. Yet, the common adjustment of both optical data streams is a nontriv ...

International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing2025

Exploiting Representation Similarities in Self-Supervised Learning for Vision Tasks

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Recent progress in computer vision has been driven by a simple yet transformative observation: the potential of 30-year-old neural networks can be unlocked by massively scaling their parameters and the amount of human-labeled training data. This breakthrou ...

EPFL2025

Classifier-free diffusion-based weakly-supervised approach for health indicator derivation in rotating machines: Advancing early fault detection and condition monitoring

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Deriving health indicators of rotating machines is crucial for their maintenance. However, this process is challenging for the prevalent adopted intelligent methods since they may take the whole data distributions, not only introducing noise interference b ...

2025

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

On the Generalization of Stochastic Gradient Descent with Momentum

Volkan Cevher, Kimon Antonakopoulos

While momentum-based accelerated variants of stochastic gradient descent (SGD) are widely used when training machine learning models, there is little theoretical understanding on the generalization error of such methods. In this work, we first show that th ...

Microtome Publishing2024

Asymptotics of feature learning in two-layer networks after one gradient-step

Lenka Zdeborová, Florent Gérard Krzakala, Bruno Loureiro, Hugo Chao Cui, Yatin Dandi, Luca Pesce, Yue Lu

In this manuscript, we investigate the problem of how two-layer neural networks learn features from data, and improve over the kernel regime, after being trained with a single gradient descent step. Leveraging the insight from (Ba et al., 2022), we model t ...

2024

MCMC: Bridging Rendering, Optimization and Generative AI

Wenzel Alban Jakob

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) has made unprecedented advances in vision language models over the past two years. These advances are largely due to diffusion-based generative models, which are very stable and simple to train. These diffusion model ...

Association for Computing Machinery, Inc2024

Macroeconomic Conditioned Synthetic Financial Markets

Alexander Michael Rusnak

The creation of high fidelity synthetic data has long been an important goal in machine learning, particularly in fields like finance where the scarcity of available training and test data make it difficult to utilize many of the deep learning techniques w ...

ACM2024

A Box-Spline Framework for Inverse Problems With Continuous-Domain Sparsity Constraints

Michaël Unser, Aleix Boquet I Pujadas, Mehrsa Pourya

The formulation of inverse problems in the continuum eliminates discretization errors and allows for the exact incorporation of priors. In this paper, we formulate a continuous-domain inverse problem over a search space of continuous and piecewise-linear f ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2024

A generalized machine learning framework to estimate fatigue life across materials with minimal data

Anastasios Vassilopoulos, Dharun Vadugappatty Srinivasan

In this research, a generalized machine learning (ML) framework is proposed to estimate the fatigue life of epoxy polymers and additively manufactured AlSi10Mg alloy materials, leveraging their failure surface void characteristics. An extreme gradient boos ...

2024