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Foundation neural-networks quantum states as a unified Ansatz for multiple hamiltonians

Luciano Loris Viteritti, Giuseppe Carleo

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 ...

2025

Transferability of Learnt Speech Representations for Decoding Non-Human Vocal Communication

Eklavya Sarkar

Humans and animals both use acoustic signals for vocal communication. The advent of self-supervised learning (SSL) has enabled neural networks to learn robust and general feature representations through the intrinsic acoustic structure of input signals, wi ...

EPFL2025

MARBLE: interpretable representations of neural population dynamics using geometric deep learning

Pierre Vandergheynst

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

Musculoskeletal motor control with reinforcement learning

Alberto Silvio Chiappa

Animals, including humans, interact with the external environment primarily through motion. Replicating their motor control skills in artificial embodied agents is a major objective of artificial intelligence research. This thesis presents a collection of ...

EPFL2025

TimeGPT in load forecasting: A large time series model perspective

Fernando Porté Agel, Jiannong Fang, Wenlong Liao

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 ...

2025

Enhanced Architectures and Optimization Methods for Efficient Language Modeling

Amirkeivan Mohtashami

This thesis investigates methods to construct more capable models more efficiently, focusing on two aspects: improved architectures and optimization. We examine principled architectural modifications that reduce computational costs or introduce features fo ...

EPFL2025

Multisensory feedback makes swimming circuits robust against spinal transection and enables terrestrial crawling in elongate fish

Auke Ijspeert, Laura Isabel Paez Coy, Astha Gupta, Qiyuan Fu

Vertebrate locomotion is due to the interplay of neural oscillators and sensory feedback loops in the spinal cord that interact with the body and the environment. Here, we study these circuits with a focus on undulatory locomotion as produced by elongated ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences2025

Teaching oxidation states to neural networks

Nicola Marzari

While the accurate description of redox reactions remains a challenge for first-principles calculations, it has been shown that extended Hubbard functionals (DFT+U+V) can provide a reliable approach, mitigating self-interaction errors, in materials with st ...

2025

Hybrid Decentralized Optimization: Leveraging Both First- and Zeroth-Order Optimizers for Faster Convergence

Matin Ansaripour

Distributed optimization is the standard way of speeding up machine learning training, and most of the research in the area focuses on distributed first-order, gradient-based methods. Yet, there are settings where some computationally-bounded nodes may not ...

Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence2025

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

Intelligent Soft Robotic System for Sensing and Recognition via Triboelectric‐Based Multi‐Sensor Fusion

Xin Chen

Triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs) serve as a key technology in flexible electronic devices, especially tactile sensors, enabling flexible robotic manipulators to effectively interact with their external environment. Persistent challenges include inadequ ...

Wiley2025

Deep Learning Theory Through the Lens of Diagonal Linear Networks

Scott William Pesme

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

Assessing Sample Quality via the Latent Space of Generative Models

Minh Hieu Lê

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

The neural correlates of topographical disorientation-a lesion analysis study

Olaf Blanke, Lukas Heydrich, Eva Blondiaux

Topographical disorientation refers to the selective inability to orient oneself in familiar surroundings. However, to date its neural correlates remain poorly understood. Here we use quantitative lesion analysis and a lesion network mapping approach in or ...

Wiley2024

Detecting mass wasting of Retrogressive Thaw Slumps in spaceborne elevation models using deep learning

Sophia Kublytska

Climate change has led to stronger warming in the Arctic, causing higher ground temperatures and extensive permafrost thaw. Retrogressive Thaw Slumps (RTSs) represent one of the most rapid and considerable geomorphological changes in permafrost regions, oc ...

2025

Reduced Training Data for Laser Ultrasound Signal Interpretation by Neural Networks

Romain Christophe Rémy Fleury, Janez Rus

The performance of machine learning algorithms is conditioned by the availability of training datasets, which is especially true for the field of nondestructive evaluation. Here we propose one reconfigurable specimen instead of numerous reference specimens ...

2024

Temporal aspects of feature integration in vision

Lukas Vogelsang

To fully comprehend visual perception, we need to necessarily understand its temporal dimension. Our visual environment is highly dynamic, requiring the processing and integration of temporal signals in order to make sense of it. Many processes, such as th ...

EPFL2024

Learning the language of the genome: AI- and data-driven decoding of genetic variants and disease mechanisms

Ali Saadat Varnosfaderanii

Genetic variation plays a crucial role in human disease susceptibility and molecular pathophysiology. This thesis explores genetic determinants of disease using advanced computational approaches, including statistical modeling, network analysis, and deep l ...

EPFL2025

Deep learning approach for identification of H II regions during reionization in 21-cm observations - II. Foreground contamination

Jean-Paul Richard Kneib, Emma Elizabeth Tolley, Michele Bianco, Tianyue Chen

The upcoming Square Kilometre Array Observatory will produce images of neutral hydrogen distribution during the epoch of reionization by observing the corresponding 21-cm signal. However, the 21-cm signal will be subject to instrumental limitations such as ...

Oxford Univ Press2024

Statistical Inference for Inverse Problems: From Sparsity-Based Methods to Neural Networks

Pakshal Narendra Bohra

In inverse problems, the task is to reconstruct an unknown signal from its possibly noise-corrupted measurements. Penalized-likelihood-based estimation and Bayesian estimation are two powerful statistical paradigms for the resolution of such problems. They ...

EPFL2024