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A Theory of Finite-Width Neural Networks: Generalization, Scaling Laws, and the Loss Landscape

Deep learning has achieved remarkable success in various challenging tasks such as generating images from natural language or engaging in lengthy conversations with humans. The success in practice stems from the ability to successfully train massive neural ...

EPFL2023

Distributionally Robust Inverse Covariance Estimation: The Wasserstein Shrinkage Estimator

Daniel Kuhn, Viet Anh Nguyen, Peyman Mohajerin Esfahani

We introduce a distributionally robust maximum likelihood estimation model with a Wasserstein ambiguity set to infer the inverse covariance matrix of a p-dimensional Gaussian random vector from n independent samples. The proposed model minimizes the worst ...

2022

Wasserstein Distributionally Robust Learning

Soroosh Shafieezadeh Abadeh

Many decision problems in science, engineering, and economics are affected by uncertainty, which is typically modeled by a random variable governed by an unknown probability distribution. For many practical applications, the probability distribution is onl ...

EPFL2020

Integrating the Finite Element Method with a Data-Driven Approach for Dam Displacement Prediction

Zhenzhu Meng

Both numerical simulations and data-driven methods have been applied in dam's displacement modeling. For monitored displacement data-driven methods, the physical mechanism and structural correlations were rarely discussed. In order to take the spatial and ...

2020

Particle number control for direct simulation Monte-Carlo methodology using kernel estimates

Mohammadhossein Gorji

The efficiency of stochastic particle schemes for large scale simulations relies on the ability to preserve a uniform distribution of particles in the whole physical domain. While simple particle split and merge algorithms have been considered previously, ...

2019

Concrete Dam Displacement Prediction Based on an ISODATA-GMM Clustering and Random Coefficient Model

Zhenzhu Meng

Displacement data modelling is of great importance for the safety control of concrete dams. The commonly used artificial intelligence method modelled the displacement data at each monitoring point individually, i.e., the data correlations between the monit ...

2019

Fine-Grain Checkpointing with In-Cache-Line Logging

James Richard Larus, Nachshon Cohen, David Teksen Aksun

Non-Volatile Memory offers the possibility of implementing high-performance, durable data structures. However, achieving performance comparable to well-designed data structures in non-persistent (transient) memory is difficult, primarily because of the cos ...

ACM2019

Wasserstein Distributionally Robust Kalman Filtering

Daniel Kuhn, Viet Anh Nguyen, Peyman Mohajerin Esfahani, Soroosh Shafieezadeh Abadeh

We study a distributionally robust mean square error estimation problem over a nonconvex Wasserstein ambiguity set containing only normal distributions. We show that the optimal estimator and the least favorable distribution form a Nash equilibrium. Despit ...

2018

Learning to Reconstruct Texture-less Deformable Surfaces from a Single View

Pascal Fua, Mathieu Salzmann, Jan Bednarík

Recent years have seen the development of mature solutions for reconstructing deformable surfaces from a single image, provided that they are relatively well-textured. By contrast, recovering the 3D shape of texture-less surfaces remains an open problem, a ...

IEEE2018

Learning to Reconstruct Texture-less Deformable Surfaces from a Single View

Pascal Fua, Mathieu Salzmann, Jan Bednarík

2018

An Application of Extreme Value Theory to Learning Analytics: Predicting Collaboration Outcome from Eye-tracking Data

Kshitij Sharma, Valérie Chavez

The statistics used in education research are based on central trends such as the mean or standard deviation, discarding outliers. This paper adopts another viewpoint that has emerged in Statistics, called the Extreme Value Theory (EVT). EVT claims that th ...

2017

Durability and fatigue performance of a typical cold-curing structural adhesive in bridge construction

Maria Savvilotidou

The science of adhesives and adhesion for structural connections has undergone significant development during the last few decades - and successfully so in a wide variety of industries. Recent applications of structural bonding are being adopted in the con ...

EPFL2017

A characterization of the normal distribution using stationary max-stable processes

Sebastian Engelke

Consider a max-stable process of the form , , where are points of the Poisson process with intensity u (-2)du on (0,a), X (i) , , are independent copies of a random d-variate vector X (that are independent of the Poisson process), and is a function. We sho ...

Springer Verlag2016

Comparative study of joint analysis of microarray gene expression data in survival prediction and risk assessment of breast cancer patients

Microarray gene expression data sets are jointly analyzed to increase statistical power. They could either be merged together or analyzed by meta-analysis. For a given ensemble of data sets, it cannot be foreseen which of these paradigms, merging or meta-a ...

Oxford Univ Press2016

Truncated Variance Reduction: A Unified Approach to Bayesian Optimization and Level-Set Estimation

Volkan Cevher, Jonathan Mark Scarlett, Andreas Krause, Ilija Bogunovic

We present a new algorithm, truncated variance reduction (TruVaR), that treats Bayesian optimization (BO) and level-set estimation (LSE) with Gaussian processes in a unified fashion. The algorithm greedily shrinks a sum of truncated variances within a set ...

2016

Investigating Reliability on Fuel Cell Model Identification. Part II: An Estimation Method for Stochastic Parameters

Jan Van Herle, Daniel Favrat, Stefan Diethelm, Arata Nakajo, Leonidas Tsikonis

An alternative way to process data from polarization measurements for fuel cell model validation is proposed. The method is based on re- and subsampling of IV data, with which repetitive estimations are obtained for the model parameters. This way statistic ...

Wiley-Blackwell2012

On the mutual information and low-SNR capacity of memoryless noncoherent Rayleigh-fading channels

Ninoslav Marina

The memoryless noncoherent single-input-single-output (SISO) Rayleigh-fading channel is considered. Closed-form expressions are derived for the mutual information between the output and the input of this channel when the input magnitude distribution is dis ...

2008

Quantifying hydrological modeling errors through a mixture of normal distributions

André Musy, Bettina Schaefli

Bayesian inference of posterior parameter distributions has become widely used in hydrological modeling to estimate the associated modeling uncertainty. The classical underlying statistical model assumes a Gaussian modeling error with zero mean and a given ...

2007

Regional climate model data used within the SWURVE project. 2: Addressing uncertainty in regional climate model data for five European case study areas

Abdelkader Mezghani

To aid assessments of climate change impacts on water related activities in the case study regions (CSRs) of the EC funded project SWURVE, estimates of uncertainty in climate model data need to be developed. In this paper, two methods to estimate uncertain ...

2007

A Laplace mixture model for the identification of differential expression in microarrays

Anthony Christopher Davison, Darlene Goldstein

Microarrays have become an important tool for studying the molecular basis of complex disease traits and fundamental biological processes. A common purpose of microarray experiments is the detection of genes that are differentially expressed under two cond ...

2006