Publications related to Learning theory (education)

Evaluating the Impact of Learner Control and Interactivity in Conversational Tutoring Systems for Persuasive Writing

Tanja Christina Käser Jacober, Thiemo Wambsganss

Conversational tutoring systems (CTSs) offer a promising avenue for individualized learning support, especially in domains like persuasive writing. Although these systems have the potential to enhance the learning process, the specific role of learner cont ...

2024

How to support students to develop coaching and peer teaching skills

Siara Ruth Isaac, Joelyn de Lima

Students learn more when they are actively engaged in the learning process. While hands-on activities, labs and projects are moments when students are active, the learning benefits can be amplified with coaching strategies. This activity will enable studen ...

EPFL2024

Social Opinion Formation and Decision Making Under Communication Trends

Ali H. Sayed, Virginia Bordignon, Mert Kayaalp

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

Involvement of prelimbic cortex neurons and related circuits in the acquisition of a cooperative learning by pairs of rats

Maria del Carmen Sandi Perez, Elias Georges Gebara, Ana del Rocio Conde Moro

Social behaviors such as cooperation are crucial for mammals. A deeper knowledge of the neuronal mechanisms underlying cooperation can be beneficial for people suffering from pathologies with impaired social behavior. Our aim was to study the brain activit ...

Springer2024

Optimization Algorithms for Decentralized, Distributed and Collaborative Machine Learning

Anastasiia Koloskova

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

The iReCheck project: using tablets and robots for personalised handwriting practice

Pierre Dillenbourg, Chenyang Wang, Barbara Bruno, Daniel Carnieto Tozadore, David Cohen

Handwriting is an important skill in children development as well as in education that take years to be mastered. While keyboards and similar technological devices increasingly become more popular, new tools and engaging approaches are also required to kee ...

Association for Computing Machinery2023

Learning From Heterogeneous Data Based on Social Interactions Over Graphs

Ali H. Sayed, Virginia Bordignon, Stefan Vlaski

This work proposes a decentralized architecture, where individual agents aim at solving a classification problem while observing streaming features of different dimensions and arising from possibly different distributions. In the context of social learning ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2023

Transfer learning application of self-supervised learning in ARPES

Gabriel Aeppli

There is a growing recognition that electronic band structure is a local property of materials and devices, and there is steep growth in capabilities to collect the relevant data. New photon sources, from small-laboratory-based lasers to free electron lase ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2023

Improving Generalization of Pretrained Language Models

Rabeeh Karimi Mahabadi

In this dissertation, we propose multiple methods to improve transfer learning for pretrained language models (PLMs). Broadly, transfer learning is a powerful technique in natural language processing, where a language model is first pre-trained on a data-r ...

EPFL2023

Meteor: Meta-learning connecting earth problems observed from space

Devis Tuia, Benjamin Alexander Kellenberger, Marc Conrad Russwurm

Satellite remote sensing has become a key technology for monitoring Earth and the processes occurring at its surface. It relies on state-of-the-art machine learning models that require large annotated datasets to capture the extreme diversity of the proble ...

2023

Computationally Efficient Reinforcement Learning: Targeted Exploration leveraging Simple Rules

Colin Neil Jones, Loris Di Natale, Bratislav Svetozarevic

Model-free Reinforcement Learning (RL) generally suffers from poor sample complexity, mostly due to the need to exhaustively explore the state-action space to find well-performing policies. On the other hand, we postulate that expert knowledge of the syste ...

2023

Work in progress: Imagining / Designing informal spaces for learning

Ingrid Le Duc

The paper presents ICAP (interactive, constructive, active and passive) as the theoretical framework to understand the role of informal learning spaces as an active learning tool when students have informal meetings to work on projects. Students in our En ...

Aalborg Universitetsforlag2023

Early motor skill acquisition in healthy older adults: brain correlates of the learning process

Friedhelm Christoph Hummel, Takuya Morishita, Pablo Maceira Elvira, Manon Chloé Durand-Ruel, Chang-Hyun Park, Maeva Moyne

Motor skill learning is a crucial process at all ages. However, healthy aging is often accompanied by a reduction in motor learning capabilities. This study characterized the brain dynamics of healthy older adults during motor skill acquisition and identif ...

OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC2023

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

Clémentine Léa Aguet

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

Challenges and Opportunities in Integrating Interactive Chatbots into Code Review Exercises: A Pilot Case Study

Denis Gillet, Juan Carlos Farah, Adrian Christian Holzer

While chatbots are commonly used to support software developers with repetitive tasks, their use in programming education is still limited, particularly for students in non-technical domains. To better understand the potential for chatbots to support progr ...

IATED2022

Motion Style Transfer: Modular Low-Rank Adaptation for Deep Motion Forecasting

Alexandre Massoud Alahi, Yuejiang Liu, Parth Ashit Kothari, Danya Li

Deep motion forecasting models have achieved great success when trained on a massive amount of data. Yet, they often perform poorly when training data is limited. To address this challenge, we propose a transfer learning approach for efficiently adapting p ...

2022

Democratizing Machine Learning

Alexandre David Olivier Maurer, Nirupam Gupta, Rafaël Benjamin Pinot

The increasing prevalence of personal devices motivates the design of algorithms that can leverage their computing power, together with the data they generate, in order to build privacy-preserving and effective machine learning models. However, traditional ...

IEEE2022

A Structured Dictionary Perspective on Implicit Neural Representations

Pascal Frossard, Guillermo Ortiz Jimenez, Beril Besbinar, Gizem Yüce

Implicit neural representations (INRs) have recently emerged as a promising alternative to classical discretized representations of signals. Nevertheless, despite their practical success, we still do not understand how INRs represent signals. We propose a ...

IEEE COMPUTER SOC2022

Evolutionary Clustering of Apprentices' Self- Regulated Learning Behavior in Learning Journals

Paola Mejia Domenzain, Tanja Christina Käser Jacober, Christian Giang, Mirko Marras

Learning journals are increasingly used in vocational education to foster self-regulated learning and reflective learning practices. However, for many apprentices, documenting working experiences is a difficult task. In this paper, we profile apprentices' ...

2022

Active Learning for Imbalanced Civil Infrastructure Data

Diego Matteo Antognini, Adelmo Cristiano Innocenza Malossi, Ioana Giurgiu

Aging civil infrastructures are closely monitored by engineers for damage and critical defects. As the manual inspection of such large structures is costly and time-consuming, we are working towards fully automating the visual inspections to support the pr ...

2022