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Low-light photography produces images with low signal-to-noise ratios due to limited photons. In such conditions, common approximations like the Gaussian noise model fall short, and many denoising techniques fail to remove noise effectively. Although deep- ...

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The Privacy Power of Correlated Noise in Decentralized Learning

Rachid Guerraoui, Martin Jaggi, Youssef Allouah, Anastasiia Koloskova

Decentralized learning is appealing as it enables the scalable usage of large amounts of distributed data and resources (without resorting to any central entity), while promoting privacy since every user minimizes the direct exposure of their data. Yet, wi ...

PMLR2024

A Privacy-Preserving Querying Mechanism with High Utility for Electric Vehicles

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Electric vehicles (EVs) are becoming more popular due to environmental consciousness. The limited availability of charging stations (CSs), compared to the number of EVs on the road, has led to increased range anxiety and a higher frequency of CS queries du ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2024

Differentially private multi-agent constraint optimization

Boi Faltings, Sujit Prakash Gujar, Aleksei Triastcyn, Sankarshan Damle

Distributed constraint optimization (DCOP) is a framework in which multiple agents with private constraints (or preferences) cooperate to achieve a common goal optimally. DCOPs are applicable in several multi-agent coordination/allocation problems, such as ...

Springer2024

Towards the Detection of AI-Synthesized Human Face Images

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Over the past years, image generation and manipulation have achieved remarkable progress due to the rapid development of generative AI based on deep learning. Recent studies have devoted significant efforts to address the problem of face image manipulation ...

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For our fifth anniversary, we reconnected with authors of recent Comments and Perspectives in Nature Machine Intelligence and asked them how the topic they wrote about developed. We also wanted to know what other topics in AI they found exciting, surprisin ...

Nature Portfolio2024

Sparse autoregressive neural networks for classical spin systems

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Efficient sampling and approximation of Boltzmann distributions involving large sets of binary variables, or spins, are pivotal in diverse scientific fields even beyond physics. Recent advances in generative neural networks have significantly impacted this ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2024

Optimization Algorithms for Decentralized, Distributed and Collaborative Machine Learning

Anastasiia Koloskova

Distributed learning is the key for enabling training of modern large-scale machine learning models, through parallelising the learning process. Collaborative learning is essential for learning from privacy-sensitive data that is distributed across various ...

EPFL2024

MCMC: Bridging Rendering, Optimization and Generative AI

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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

Generative AI tools in the nuclear engineering community: A survey-based evaluation of the current adoption and impacts

Alessandro Scolaro, Oskari Ville Pakari

Generative AI tools (often abbreviated genAI or GAI), such as chatGPT, have arguably great potential to induce a paradigm shift in knowledge work.Herein, we present the results of a survey conducted within the nuclear engineering professional community to ...

American Nuclear Society2024

SIMPLE HIERARCHICAL PLANNING WITH DIFFUSION

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Diffusion-based generative methods have proven effective in modeling trajectories with offline datasets. However, they often face computational challenges and can falter in generalization, especially in capturing temporal abstractions for long- horizon tas ...

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PRO-Face C: Privacy-Preserving Recognition of Obfuscated Face via Feature Compensation

Touradj Ebrahimi, Lin Yuan, Xiao Pu

The advancement of face recognition technology has delivered substantial societal advantages. However, it has also raised global privacy concerns due to the ubiquitous collection and potential misuse of individuals' facial data. This presents a notable par ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2024

Leveraging large language models for predictive chemistry

Berend Smit, Philippe Schwaller, Kevin Maik Jablonka, Andres Adolfo Ortega Guerrero

Machine learning has transformed many fields and has recently found applications in chemistry and materials science. The small datasets commonly found in chemistry sparked the development of sophisticated machine learning approaches that incorporate chemic ...

Nature Portfolio2024

On the Privacy-Robustness-Utility Trilemma in Distributed Learning

Rachid Guerraoui, Nirupam Gupta, Rafaël Benjamin Pinot, Youssef Allouah, John Stephan

The ubiquity of distributed machine learning (ML) in sensitive public domain applications calls for algorithms that protect data privacy, while being robust to faults and adversarial behaviors. Although privacy and robustness have been extensively studied ...

2023

Privacy-preserving federated neural network training and inference

Sinem Sav

Training accurate and robust machine learning models requires a large amount of data that is usually scattered across data silos. Sharing, transferring, and centralizing the data from silos, however, is difficult due to current privacy regulations (e.g., H ...

EPFL2023

The JPEG AI Standard: Providing Efficient Human and Machine Visual Data Consumption

Touradj Ebrahimi

The Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG) AI learning-based image coding system is an ongoing joint standardization effort between International Organization for Standardization (ISO), International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), and International Te ...

IEEE COMPUTER SOC2023

Efficient and Accurate Peer-to-Peer Training of Machine Learning Based Home Thermal Models

Rachid Guerraoui, Alexandre David Olivier Maurer

The integration of smart thermostats in home automation systems has created an opportunity to optimize space heating and cooling through the use of machine learning, for example for thermal model identification. Nonetheless, its full potential remains unta ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2023

Bridging the gap between theoretical and practical privacy technologies for at-risk populations

Kasra Edalatnejadkhamene

With the pervasive digitalization of modern life, we benefit from efficient access to information and services. Yet, this digitalization poses severe privacy challenges, especially for special-needs individuals. Beyond being a fundamental human right, priv ...

EPFL2023

Multi-agent Learning with Privacy Guarantees

Elsa Rizk

A multi-agent system consists of a collection of decision-making or learning agents subjected to streaming observations from some real-world phenomenon. The goal of the system is to solve some global learning or optimization problem in a distributed or dec ...

EPFL2023

Anonymous Tokens with Stronger Metadata Bit Hiding from Algebraic MACs

Serge Vaudenay, Fatma Betül Durak

On the one hand, the web needs to be secured from malicious activities such as bots or DoS attacks; on the other hand, such needs ideally should not justify services tracking people's activities on the web. Anonymous tokens provide a nice tradeoff between ...

2023