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EPFL2025

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Machine learning models have made significant progress in load forecasting, but their forecast accuracy is limited in cases where historical load data is scarce. Inspired by the outstanding performance of large language models (LLMs) in computer vision and ...

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Foundation models are highly versatile neural-network architectures capable of processing different data types, such as text and images, and generalizing across various tasks like classification and generation. Inspired by this success, we propose Foundati ...

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The dynamics of neuron populations commonly evolve on low-dimensional manifolds. Thus, we need methods that learn the dynamical processes over neural manifolds to infer interpretable and consistent latent representations. We introduce a representation lear ...

Nature Publishing Group2025

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Wiley2025

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EPFL2025

Musculoskeletal motor control with reinforcement learning

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EPFL2025

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Advances in generative models increase the need for sample quality assessment. To do so, previous methods rely on a pre-trained feature extractor to embed the generated samples and real samples into a common space for comparison. However, different feature ...

Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH2025

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EPFL2025

Leveraging Knowledge Profiles and Generative AI for Realistic Student Response Generation

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The scarcity of high-quality labeled data often hinders the effective use of automated formative feedback in education. While analytic rubrics offer a reliable framework for automated grading, training robust models still requires hundreds of expert-labele ...

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Incorporating pixel contextual information is critical for accurate segmentation. In this paper, we show that an effective way to incorporate contextual information is through a patch-based classifier. This patch classifier is trained to identify classes p ...

Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH2025

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EPFL2024

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Deep learning models are generally vulnerable to small perturbations, raising concerns about safety, security, and performance guarantees. Achieving robustness has been shown to be costly in terms of computational resources and quantity of data. This thesi ...

EPFL2024

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Isca-Int Speech Communication Assoc2023

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IEEE2023

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Research Publishing2023

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