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Efficient deployment of resource-intensive transformers on edge devices necessitates cross-stack optimization. We thus study the interrelation between structured pruning and systolic acceleration, matching the size of pruned blocks with the systolic array ...

Association for Computing Machinery2025

Programming Nonlinear Computation with Nonlinear and Linear Optics

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The escalating demands of artificial intelligence have underscored the limitations of traditional electronic computing, particularly in terms of power consumption and scalability. Optical computing offers a promising alternative, providing advantages in sp ...

EPFL2025

A Multifaceted Spatial Analysis of Tomb Distribution in Blemmyan Berenike (eastern Desert of Egypt)

Michal Jan Tyszkiewicz

This study examines the spatial and visual organisation of tombs in the post-Roman Berenike located in Egypt's Eastern Desert. Archaeological surveys, remote sensing, geophysical methods, excavations and GIS-based analyses are used for a comprehensive unde ...

WILEY2025

CloudProphet: A Machine Learning-Based Performance Prediction for Public Clouds

David Atienza Alonso, Marina Zapater Sancho, Ali Pahlevan, Darong Huang, Luis Maria Costero Valero

Computing servers have played a key role in developing and processing emerging compute-intensive applications in recent years. Consolidating multiple virtual machines (VMs) inside one server to run various applications introduces severe competence for limi ...

2024

Interpret3C: Interpretable Student Clustering Through Individualized Feature Selection

Julian Thomas Blackwell, Tanja Christina Käser Jacober, Paola Mejia Domenzain, Vinitra Swamy

Clustering in education, particularly in large-scale online environments like MOOCs, is essential for understanding and adapting to diverse student needs. However, the effectiveness of clustering depends on its interpretability, which becomes challenging w ...

2024

Multi-temporal forest monitoring in the Swiss Alps with knowledge-guided deep learning

Devis Tuia, Marc Conrad Russwurm, Thiên-Anh Claris Nguyen, Gaston Jean Lenczner

Monitoring forests, in particular their response to climate and land use change, requires studying long time scales. While efficient deep learning methods have been developed to process short time series of satellite imagery, leveraging long time series of ...

Elsevier Science Inc2024

SPAHM(a,b): Encoding the Density Information from Guess Hamiltonian in Quantum Machine Learning Representations

Anne-Clémence Corminboeuf, Alberto Fabrizio, Ksenia Briling, Yannick Calvino Alonso

Recently, we introduced a class of molecular representations for kernel-based regression methods─the spectrum of approximated Hamiltonian matrices (SPAHM)─that takes advantage of lightweight one-electron Hamiltonians traditionally used as a self-consistent ...

2024

Exploring neural oscillations during speech perception via surrogate gradient spiking neural networks

Philip Neil Garner

Understanding cognitive processes in the brain demands sophisticated models capable of replicating neural dynamics at large scales. We present a physiologically inspired speech recognition architecture, compatible and scalable with deep learning frameworks ...

2024

Multilingual Vision-Language Pre-training for the Remote Sensing Domain

Devis Tuia

Methods based on Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) are nowadays extensively used in support of vision-and-language tasks involving remote sensing data, such as cross-modal retrieval. The adaptation of CLIP to this specific domain has relied on ...

Association for Computing Machinery, Inc2024

Toward universal cell embeddings: integrating single-cell RNA-seq datasets across species with SATURN

Maria Brbic

Analysis of single-cell datasets generated from diverse organisms offers unprecedented opportunities to unravel fundamental evolutionary processes of conservation and diversification of cell types. However, interspecies genomic differences limit the joint ...

Nature Publishing Group2024

A Functional Extension of Semi-Structured Networks

Jan Almond Stöcker

Semi-structured networks (SSNs) merge the structures familiar from additive models with deep neural networks, allowing the modeling of interpretable partial feature effects while capturing higher-order non-linearities at the same time. A significant challe ...

Curran Associates, Inc.2024

Predicting the long-term collective behaviour of fish pairs with deep learning

Francesco Mondada, Alexandre Massoud Alahi, Vaios Papaspyros

Modern computing has enhanced our understanding of how social interactions shape collective behaviour in animal societies. Although analytical models dominate in studying collective behaviour, this study introduces a deep learning model to assess social in ...

2024

IS-Fusion: Instance-Scene Collaborative Fusion for Multimodal 3D Object Detection

Pascal Frossard

Bird's eye view (BEV) representation has emerged as a dominant solution for describing 3D space in autonomous driving scenarios. However, objects in the BEV representation typically exhibit small sizes, and the associated point cloud context is inherently ...

IEEE Computer Society2024

Quartiers rhodaniens en transition

Sara Sonia Formery Regazzoni

Over the course of history, the relationship between cities and their waters has shown different gradients of interweaving, marked by cycles of bonding and distancing. Following a period of complete neglect of urban watercourses, the versatile, multifacete ...

EPFL2024

Lotic-SIPCO2: Adaptation of an open-source CO2 sensor system and examination of associated emission uncertainties across a range of stream sizes and land uses

Andrew Lean Robison

River networks play a crucial role in the global carbon cycle, as relevant sources of carbon dioxide (CO2) to the atmosphere. Advancements in high-frequency monitoring in aquatic environments have enabled measurement of dissolved CO2 concentration at tempo ...

Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO)2024

Incorporating Projective Geometry into Deep Learning

Michal Jan Tyszkiewicz

In this thesis we explore the applications of projective geometry, a mathematical theory of the relation between 3D scenes and their 2D images, in modern learning-based computer vision systems. This is an interesting research question which contradicts the ...

EPFL2024

Residual-based attention in physics-informed neural networks

Nikolaos Stergiopoulos, Sokratis Anagnostopoulos

Driven by the need for more efficient and seamless integration of physical models and data, physics -informed neural networks (PINNs) have seen a surge of interest in recent years. However, ensuring the reliability of their convergence and accuracy remains ...

Elsevier Science Sa2024

Rethinking Personalized Client Collaboration in Federated Learning

Anne-Marie Kermarrec

Federated Learning (FL) has gained considerable attention recently, as it allows clients to cooperatively train a global machine learning model without sharing raw data. However, its performance can be compromised due to the high heterogeneity in clients' ...

2024

The effect of smooth parametrizations on nonconvex optimization landscapes

Nicolas Boumal

We develop new tools to study landscapes in nonconvex optimization. Given one optimization problem, we pair it with another by smoothly parametrizing the domain. This is either for practical purposes (e.g., to use smooth optimization algorithms with good g ...

Springer Heidelberg2024

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