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AMER PHYSICAL SOC2025

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Deep Learning (DL) models processing images to recognize the health state of large infrastructure components can exhibit biases and rely on non-causal shortcuts. eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) can address these issues but manually analyzing expl ...

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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.2025

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MDPI2025

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EPFL2024

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EPFL2024

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Ensuring reliable operation in power grids given the complexity of modern electricity networks with increasing demands, varying generation and flows present significant computational challenges. Addressing these challenges, we develop efficient methods for ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.2024

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Cutting plane methods are a fundamental approach for solving integer linear programs (ILPs). In each iteration of such methods, additional linear constraints (cuts) are introduced to the constraint set with the aim of excluding the previous fractional opti ...

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Sample efficiency is a fundamental challenge in de novo molecular design. Ideally, molecular generative models should learn to satisfy a desired objective under minimal calls to oracles (computational property predictors). This problem becomes more apparen ...

Amer Chemical Soc2024

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In this thesis, we study two closely related directions: robustness and generalization in modern deep learning. Deep learning models based on empirical risk minimization are known to be often non-robust to small, worst-case perturbations known as adversari ...

EPFL2024