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Recent years have been marked with the fast-pace diversification and increasing ubiquity of machine learning (ML) applications. Yet, a firm theoretical understanding of the surprising efficiency of neural networks (NNs) to learn from high-dimensional data ...

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OPTIMAL TRANSPORT-INSPIRED DEEP LEARNING FRAMEWORK FOR SLOW-DECAYING KOLMOGOROV \bfitn-WIDTH PROBLEMS: EXPLOITING SINKHORN LOSS AND WASSERSTEIN KERNEL

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Reduced-order models (ROMs) are widely used in scientific computing to tackle high-dimensional systems. However, traditional ROM methods may only partially capture the intrinsic geometric characteristics of the data. These characteristics encompass the und ...

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Exploiting XAI Maps to Improve MS Lesion Segmentation and Detection in MRI

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Gradient Approximation of Approximate Multipliers for High-Accuracy Deep Neural Network Retraining

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Approximate multipliers (AppMults) are widely employed in deep neural network (DNN) accelerators to reduce the area, delay, and power consumption. However, the inaccuracies of AppMults degrade DNN accuracy, necessitating a retraining process to recover acc ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2025

Mapping drivers of tropical forest loss with satellite image time series and machine learning

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The rates of tropical deforestation remain high, resulting in carbon emissions, biodiversity loss, and impacts on local communities. To design effective policies to tackle this, it is necessary to know what the drivers behind deforestation are. Since drive ...

IOP Publishing2024

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

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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

Wigner kernels: Body-ordered equivariant machine learning without a basis

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Machine-learning models based on a point-cloud representation of a physical object are ubiquitous in scientific applications and particularly well-suited to the atomic-scale description of molecules and materials. Among the many different approaches that h ...

AIP Publishing2024

Predicting electronic screening for fast Koopmans spectral functional calculations

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Koopmans spectral functionals are a powerful extension of Kohn-Sham density-functional theory (DFT) that enables the prediction of spectral properties with state-of-the-art accuracy. The success of these functionals relies on capturing the effects of elect ...

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An explorative method to support design decisions based on carbon constraints and daylight sufficiency needs

Nazanin Rezaei Oghazi

The global construction industry contributes to 37% of carbon emissions associated to both building operations and construction. To help achieve the net-zero targets set by 2050, it is mandated to achieve a 50% reduction in carbon emissions by 2030. As we ...

EPFL2024

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

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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

ConGeo: Robust Cross-View Geo-Localization Across Ground View Variations

Devis Tuia, Antoine Bosselut, Javiera Francisca Castillo Navarro, Syrielle Mathilde Marie Montariol, Li Mi

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Springer Cham2024

Spatio-temporal patterns and drivers of CH4 and CO2 fluxes from rivers and lakes in highly urbanized areas

Alexandre Buttler

Gaseous carbon exchange at the water-air interface of rivers and lakes is an essential process for regional and global carbon cycle assessments. Many studies have shown that rivers surrounding urban landscapes can be hotspots for greenhouse gas (GHG) emiss ...

Elsevier2024

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

Lakmal Buddika Meegahapola

A range of behavioral and contextual factors, including eating and drinking behavior, mood, social context, and other daily activities, can significantly impact an individual's quality of life and overall well-being. Therefore, inferring everyday life aspe ...

EPFL2024

Topics in statistical physics of high-dimensional machine learning

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In the past few years, Machine Learning (ML) techniques have ushered in a paradigm shift, allowing the harnessing of ever more abundant sources of data to automate complex tasks. The technical workhorse behind these important breakthroughs arguably lies in ...

EPFL2024

Advancing Self-Supervised Deep Learning for 3D Scene Understanding

Seyed Mohammad Mahdi Johari

Recent advancements in deep learning have revolutionized 3D computer vision, enabling the extraction of intricate 3D information from 2D images and video sequences. This thesis explores the application of deep learning in three crucial challenges of 3D com ...

EPFL2024

Impact of CO2-rich seawater injection on the flow properties of basalts

Cesare Griner, Lyesse Laloui, Eleni Stavropoulou

Permanent CO storage in basalts through mineralisation offers a promising solution for reducing carbon emissions and mitigating climate change. This study focuses on the impact of potential mineralisation on the flow properties of the basaltic material. Fl ...

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Resource-Efficient Continual Learning for Personalized Online Seizure Detection

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Epilepsy, a major neurological disease, requires careful diagnosis and treatment. However, the detection of epileptic seizures remains a significant challenge. Current clinical practice relies on expert analysis of EEG signals, a process that is time-consu ...

IEEE2024

Deep Learning Theory Through the Lens of Diagonal Linear Networks

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In this PhD manuscript, we explore optimisation phenomena which occur in complex neural networks through the lens of

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-layer diagonal linear networks. This rudimentary architecture, which consists of a two layer feedforward linear network with a diagonal ...

EPFL2024

Inverse design of metal-organic frameworks for direct air capture of CO2via deep reinforcement learning

Berend Smit, Sauradeep Majumdar, Xiaoqi Zhang

The combination of several interesting characteristics makes metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) a highly sought-after class of nanomaterials for a broad range of applications like gas storage and separation, catalysis, drug delivery, and so on. However, the e ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2024

Safe Deep Neural Networks

Kyle Michael Matoba

The capabilities of deep learning systems have advanced much faster than our ability to understand them. Whilst the gains from deep neural networks (DNNs) are significant, they are accompanied by a growing risk and gravity of a bad outcome. This is troubli ...

EPFL2024