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EPFL2025

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We consider the problem of learning a target function corresponding to a deep, extensive-width, non-linear neural network with random Gaussian weights. We consider the asymptotic limit where the number of samples, the input dimension and the network width ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2025

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Having a single neural network to handle a wide and varied range of tasks and modalities has been a long-standing goal. Such a model brings notable advantages, such as test-time computational efficiency, modality fusion, and reduced model size. Our goal in ...

EPFL2025

Inherent Structural Descriptors Via Machine Learning

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Finding proper collective variables for complex systems and processes is one of the most challenging tasks in simulations, which limits the interpretation of experimental and simulated data and the application of enhanced sampling techniques. Here, we prop ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2025

LIU-NET: lightweight Inception U-Net for efficient brain tumor segmentation from multimodal 3D MRI images

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Segmenting brain tumors is a critical task in medical imaging that relies on advanced deep-learning methods. However, effectively handling complex tumor regions requires more comprehensive and advanced strategies to overcome challenges such as computationa ...

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From Preprocessing to Evaluation: The Role of External Knowledge in Advancing Language Models and Machine Translation

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Machine translation (MT) systems and language models (LMs) have demonstrated impressive performance in recent years, driven by advances in architecture, algorithms, and the scaling of parameters and training data. Despite the ability of these models to int ...

EPFL2025

Data-driven dynamic friction models based on Recurrent Neural Networks

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EPFL2025

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Georg Fantner, Marcos Penedo Garcia

In this study, we employed traditional methods and deep learning models to improve resolution and quality of low-resolution AFM images made under standard ambient scanning. Both traditional methods and deep learning models were benchmarked and quantified r ...

Beilstein Institut2025

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Zohreh Mostaani

Research in speech processing has largely focused on source-system modeling, where vocal fold vibrations serve as the source and the vocal cavity's articulations as the system. Nonetheless, speech production includes a complex combination of physiological ...

EPFL2025

Customizing the human-avatar mapping based on EEG error related potentials during avatar-based interaction

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Objective. A key challenge of virtual reality (VR) applications is to maintain a reliable human-avatar mapping. Users may lose the sense of controlling (sense of agency), owning (sense of body ownership), or being located (sense of self-location) inside th ...

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On the Effect of Initialization: The Scaling Path of 2-Layer Neural Networks

Michaël Unser, Sebastian Jonas Neumayer, Lénaïc Chizat

In supervised learning, the regularization path is sometimes used as a convenient theoretical proxy for the optimization path of gradient descent initialized from zero. In this paper, we study a modification of the regularization path for infinite-width 2- ...

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Generalization and Personalization of Machine Learning for Multimodal Mobile Sensing in Everyday Life

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EPFL2024

Affordance segmentation of hand-occluded containers from exocentric images

Andrea Cavallaro

Visual affordance segmentation identifies the surfaces of an object an agent can interact with. Common challenges for the identification of affordances are the variety of the geometry and physical properties of these surfaces as well as occlusions. In this ...

Ieee Computer Soc2023

Modulation of Visually Induced Self-motion Illusions by α Transcranial Electric Stimulation over the Superior Parietal Cortex

Sylvain Jean-François Harquel

The growing popularity of virtual reality systems has led to a renewed interest in understanding the neurophysiological correlates of the illusion of self-motion (vection), a phenomenon that can be both intentionally induced or avoided in such systems, dep ...

Mit Press2024

SAGTTA: SALIENCY GUIDED TEST TIME AUGMENTATION FOR MEDICAL IMAGE SEGMENTATION ACROSS VENDOR DOMAIN SHIFT

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Test time augmentation has been shown to be an effective approach to combat domain shifts in deep learning. Despite their promising performance levels, the interpretability of the underlying used models is however low. Saliency maps have been widely used i ...

IEEE2023

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

Investigating neural resource allocation in the sensorimotor control of extra limbs

Giulia Dominijanni

The rise of robotic body augmentation brings forth new developments that will transform robotics, human-machine interaction, and wearable electronics. Extra robotic limbs, although building upon restorative technologies, bring their own set of challenges i ...

EPFL2024

Human Interactive Robotic Surfaces for Physical Immersion

Fabio Zuliani

Computers have long been augmenting human capabilities and communication, and with emerging technologies, physical immersion in virtual worlds is now attainable. These advancements push the boundaries of human potential, allowing designers, architects, eng ...

EPFL2023

An immersive virtual reality system for ecological assessment of peripersonal and extrapersonal unilateral spatial neglect

Olaf Blanke, Andrea Serino, Roberta Ronchi, Ravi Tej Sai Giridhar Tadi

BackgroundUnilateral spatial neglect (USN) is a debilitating neuropsychological syndrome that often follows brain injury, in particular a stroke affecting the right hemisphere. In current clinical practice, the assessment of neglect is based on old-fashion ...

BioMed Central2023