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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

Performance of energy piles foundation in hot-dominated climate: A case study in Dubai

Lyesse Laloui, Elena Ravera, Sofie Elaine ten Bosch

Energy piles represent an innovative technology that can help provide sustainable geothermal heating or cooling energy for thermal conditioning purposes. In hot-dominated climates, the interest is to inject heat in the ground and extract energy for space-c ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2024

Overcoming Distribution Shifts and Imbalance Challenges in Representation Learning for Deep Regression Models

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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

Fusing Pre-existing Knowledge and Machine Learning for Enhanced Building Thermal Modeling and Control

Loris Di Natale

Buildings play a pivotal role in the ongoing worldwide energy transition, accounting for 30% of the global energy consumption. With traditional engineering solutions reaching their limits to tackle such large-scale problems, data-driven methods and Machine ...

EPFL2024

Learning to Reason with Neural Networks: Principles and Methods

Aryo Lotfi Jandaghi

This thesis focuses on understanding and improving the reasoning capabilities of neural networks. It develops theoretical results and empirical analyses to uncover reasoning potential and limitations, leveraging these insights to guide the design of improv ...

EPFL2025

Modelleyen: Continual Learning and Planning via Structured Modelling of Environment Dynamics

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The current machine learning paradigm relies on continuous representations and fixed neural network architectures to approximate environmental structures, leading to challenges with continual learning, internal structure design, and goal-directed behavior ...

Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH2025

Design and assessment of an evaporating water-cooled methanation reactor for a SOE-based power-to-methane system

Philippe Aubin

The transition towards clean renewable energy sources, where wind and solar are prone to variation, requires adequate energy storage. Power-to-methane (PtM) systems can be part of the solution. Specifically, solid-oxide-electrolyser (SOE) based PtM systems ...

EPFL2024

What is NExT? A new conceptual model for comfort, satisfaction, health, and well-being in buildings

Dusan Licina

Buildings are designed to respond to functional and regulatory needs, providing comfortable conditions to occupants, offering satisfactory environmental settings, minimising health risks, and enhancing individual and collective quality of life. Although th ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2024

Explainable modeling for wind power forecasting: A Glass-Box model with high accuracy

Fernando Porté Agel, Jiannong Fang, Wenlong Liao

Machine learning models (e.g., neural networks) achieve high accuracy in wind power forecasting, but they are usually regarded as black boxes that lack interpretability. To address this issue, the paper proposes a glass-box model that combines high accurac ...

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LIONHEART: A Layer-based Mapping Framework for Heterogeneous Systems with Analog In-Memory Computing Tiles

David Atienza Alonso, Giovanni Ansaloni, Marina Zapater Sancho, Irem Boybat Kara, Flavio Ponzina, Joshua Alexander Harrison Klein, Yuxuan Wang, Abu Sebastian

When arranged in a crossbar configuration, resistive memory devices can be used to execute Matrix-Vector Multiplications (MVMs), the most dominant operation of many Machine Learning (ML) algorithms, in constant time complexity. Nonetheless, when performing ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)2025

Few-shot Learning for Efficient and Effective Machine Learning Model Adaptation

Arnout Jan J Devos

Machine learning (ML) enables artificial intelligent (AI) agents to learn autonomously from data obtained from their environment to perform tasks. Modern ML systems have proven to be extremely effective, reaching or even exceeding human intelligence. Altho ...

EPFL2024

Fair Decentralized Learning

Anne-Marie Kermarrec, Rishi Sharma, Marinus Abraham de Vos, Sayan Biswas

Decentralized learning (DL) is an emerging approach that enables nodes to collaboratively train a machine learning model without sharing raw data. In many application domains, such as healthcare, this approach faces challenges due to the high level of hete ...

IEEE2025

In-Sensor Passive Speech Classification with Phononic Metamaterials

Luis Guillermo Villanueva Torrijo, Daniel Moreno Garcia

Mitigating the energy requirements of artificial intelligence requires novel physical substrates for computation. Phononic metamaterials have vanishingly low power dissipation and hence are a prime candidate for green, always-on computers. However, their u ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2024

A comparative analysis of gene expression profiling by statistical and machine learning approaches

Anaïs Betsabeh Haget, Maria Boulougouri

Motivation Many machine learning (ML) models developed to classify phenotype from gene expression data provide interpretations for their decisions, with the aim of understanding biological processes. For many models, including neural networks, interpretati ...

OXFORD UNIV PRESS2025

Solar-assisted clean steam generator, a cleaner production approach for sustainable healthcare facilities

Mohammad Jamshidmofid, Fernando Porté Agel

Healthcare sector buildings, particularly hospitals, significantly contribute to global energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. Hospitals require a substantial amount of steam, including the essential hygienic or " clean steam, " that is currently ...

Elsevier Sci Ltd2024

Computational design of complex protein folds and soluble analogs of membrane proteins

Casper Alexander Goverde

Proteins are the molecular machines of life, driving essential biological processes such as enzymatic catalysis, cellular signaling, and immune responses. The ability to design entirely new proteins with desired structures and functions has immense implica ...

EPFL2025

A Sequential High-Frequency Switched-Capacitor Neuro-Stimulation Technique with 77% Power Efficiency

Alexandre Schmid

This paper proposes a new energy-efficient technique for high-frequency switched-capacitor stimulation systems. The proposed sequential high-frequency switched-capacitor (S-HFSC) structure employs a two-step charge transfer technique to reduce the voltage ...

SPRINGER BIRKHAUSER2025

Decomposition method to evaluate district heating/cooling network potential at urban scale

Ana Catarina Gouveia Braz, François Maréchal, Luc Girardin, Bingqian Liu

In this work, a tool to design district heating networks (DHN) is presented and applied to the city of Lausanne as a case study. The evaluation of the buildings’ heat/cooling demand is performed using a Geographic Information System (GIS) database, built f ...

Associazione Italiana Di Ingegneria Chimica2024

Bulk measurement of membrane permeability for random cyclic peptides in living cells to guide drug development

Nathan Moïse De Sadeleer, Christian Heinis, Alexander Lund Nielsen, Anne Sofie Luise Zarda, Rebecca Manuela Neeser

Cyclic peptides are attractive for drug discovery due to their excellent binding properties and the potential to cross cell membranes. However, by far not all cyclic peptides are cell permeable, and measuring or predicting their membrane permeability is no ...

Wiley2025

Flash Melting Amorphous Ice

Marcel Drabbels, Ulrich Lorenz, Gabriele Bongiovanni, Constantin Richard Krüger, Nathan Junior Mowry

Water can be vitrified if it is cooled at high rates, which makes it possible to outrun crystallization in so-called no man’s land, a range of deeply supercooled temperatures where water crystallizes rapidly. Here, we study the reverse process in pure wate ...

2024