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International Conference on Learning Representations, ICLR2025

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How to support students to develop coaching and peer teaching skills

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EPFL2024

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EPFL2024

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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 ...

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Human babies have a natural desire to interact with new toys and objects, through which they learn how the world around them works, e.g., that glass shatters when dropped, but a rubber ball does not. When their predictions are proven incorrect, such as whe ...

EPFL2024

Deterministic equivalent and error universality of deep random features learning

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This manuscript considers the problem of learning a random Gaussian network function using a fully connected network with frozen intermediate layers and trainable readout layer. This problem can be seen as a natural generalization of the widely studied ran ...

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Social Opinion Formation and Decision Making Under Communication Trends

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This work studies the learning process over social networks under partial and random information sharing. In traditional social learning models, agents exchange full belief information with each other while trying to infer the true state of nature. We stud ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2024

Quantifying the Unknown: Data-Driven Approaches and Applications in Energy Systems

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In light of the challenges posed by climate change and the goals of the Paris Agreement, electricity generation is shifting to a more renewable and decentralized pattern, while the operation of systems like buildings is increasingly electrified. This calls ...

EPFL2024

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Elsevier2024

How to Support Students to Cultivate Psychological Safety in their Teams

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The importance of psychological safety in teams has been demonstrated in different settings. Team performance improves when team climate allows team members to be their authentic selves, to ask questions and raise concerns comfortably. However, it is less ...

EPFL2024

Unveiling the complexity of learning and decision-making

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Reinforcement learning (RL) is crucial for learning to adapt to new environments. In RL, the prediction error is an important component that compares the expected and actual rewards. Dopamine plays a critical role in encoding these prediction errors. In my ...

EPFL2024

Generative AI-Enabled Conversational Interaction to Support Self-Directed Learning Experiences in Transversal Computational Thinking

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As computational thinking (CT) becomes increasingly acknowledged as an important skill in education, self-directed learning (SDL) emerges as a key strategy for developing this capability. The advent of generative AI (GenAI) conversational agents has disrup ...

2024

Optimization Algorithms for Decentralized, Distributed and Collaborative Machine Learning

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Distributed learning is the key for enabling training of modern large-scale machine learning models, through parallelising the learning process. Collaborative learning is essential for learning from privacy-sensitive data that is distributed across various ...

EPFL2024

Nonlinear two-scale beam simulations accelerated by thermodynamics-informed neural networks

Konstantinos Karapiperis

We introduce an efficient computational framework for the simulation of complex beam networks and architected materials. At its core stands a thermodynamics-informed neural network, which serves as a surrogate material model for the cross-sectional respons ...

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Multi-Agent Learning in Contextual Games under Unknown Constraints

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We consider the problem of learning to play a repeated contextual game with unknown reward and unknown constraints functions. Such games arise in applications where each agent’s action needs to belong to a feasible set, but the feasible set is a priori unk ...

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Data-driven approaches for non-invasive cuffless blood pressure monitoring

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Blood pressure (BP) is a crucial indicator of cardiovascular health. Hypertension is a common life-threatening condition and a key factor of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs). Identifying abnormal BP fluctuations can allow for early detection and management o ...

EPFL2023

Reinforcement learning approach to control an inverted pendulum: A general framework for educational purposes

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Machine learning is often cited as a new paradigm in control theory, but is also often viewed as empirical and less intuitive for students than classical model-based methods. This is particularly the case for reinforcement learning, an approach that does n ...

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