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A Bio-Inspired Learning and Control Framework for Cross-Embodiment and Cross-Task Locomotion

Animals exhibit remarkable locomotion skills despite significant sensorimotor delays and operating in uncertain environments. Moreover, mammals acquire these skills within minutes of birth. From the Cambrian explosion to the present day, vertebrate motor c ...

EPFL2025

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

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

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

Boi Faltings, Zeki Doruk Erden

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

Exploiting Representation Similarities in Self-Supervised Learning for Vision Tasks

Thomas Grégoire Stegmüller

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

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 ...

2025

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

Adaptive Negative Damping Control for User-Dependent Multi-Terrain Walking Assistance With a Hip Exoskeleton

Auke Ijspeert, Mohamed Bouri, Giulia Ramella

Hip exoskeletons are known for their versatility in assisting users across varied scenarios. However, current assistive strategies often lack the flexibility to accommodate for individual walking patterns and adapt to diverse locomotion environments. In th ...

IEEE2025

Spectroscopy of two-dimensional interacting lattice electrons using symmetry-aware neural backflow transformations

Giuseppe Carleo, Jannes Willy E. Nys, Imelda Romero

Neural networks have shown to be a powerful tool to represent the ground state of quantum many-body systems, including fermionic systems. However, efficiently integrating lattice symmetries into neural representations remains a significant challenge. In th ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2025

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

Thibaut Stoltz, Jan Skaloud, Davide Antonio Cucci, Laurent Valentin Jospin, Kyriaki Mouzakidou

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

Fine-grained mapping of neural progenitors subtypes in the embryonic brain unveils context-dependent roles of signalling on cell fate decisions

Irina Khven

The mammalian brain develops through precisely orchestrated events that transform a simple neural tube into a complex structure. While single-cell RNA sequencing has revealed remarkable cellular heterogeneity, the lack of spatial context limits our underst ...

EPFL2025

SaliencyMix plus : Noise-Minimized Image Mixing Method With Saliency Map in Data Augmentation

Zhixiong Jin

Data augmentation is vital in deep learning for enhancing model robustness by artificially expanding training datasets. However, advanced methods like CutMix blend images and assign labels based on pixel ratios, often introducing label noise by neglecting ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2025

Person Re-Identification and its Application to Multi-Object Tracking

Vladimir Dominic K. Somers

Multi-Object Tracking (MOT) is a fundamental computer vision task that involves detecting objects of interest in video frames and associating detections of the same object across time to form trajectories. For association, appearance cues, extracted throug ...

EPFL2025

Weighting Pseudo-labels via High-Activation Feature Index Similarity and Object Detection for Semi-supervised Segmentation

Minh Hieu Lê

Semi-supervised semantic segmentation methods leverage unlabeled data by pseudo-labeling them. Thus the success of these methods hinges on the reliability of the pseudo-labels. Existing methods mostly choose high-confidence pixels in an effort to avoid err ...

Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH2025

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

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

Olga Fink

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 ...

Elsevier BV2025

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

Ismail Nejjar

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

Boosting Resource-Constrained Federated Learning Systems with Guessed Updates

Mohamed Yassine Boukhari, Anne-Marie Kermarrec, Rafael Pereira Pires, Rishi Sharma, Akash Balasaheb Dhasade

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

Experimental and computational analysis of REM sleep distributed cortical activity in mice

Sylvain Crochet

Although classically Rapid-Eye Movement (REM) sleep was thought to generate desynchronized activity similar to wakefulness, it was found that some brain regions could express Slow Wave activity (SWA), a pattern which was normally typical of slow-wave sleep ...

American Physiological Society2025

Self-driving microscopy detects the onset of protein aggregation and enables intelligent Brillouin imaging

Camille Valentine Cathala, Hilal Lashuel, Aleksandra Radenovic, Lely Feletti, Khalid Ashraf Mohie Ibrahim

The process of protein aggregation, central to neurodegenerative diseases like Huntington’s, is challenging to study due to its unpredictable nature and relatively rapid kinetics. Understanding its biomechanics is crucial for unraveling its role in disease ...

Springer Science and Business Media LLC2025