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Using machine learning to generate an open-access cropland map from satellite images time series in the Indian Himalayan region

Crop maps are crucial for agricultural monitoring and food management and can additionally support domain-specific applications, such as setting cold supply chain infrastructure in developing countries. Machine learning (ML) models, combined with freely-av ...

Elsevier2023

Kernel Methods and Similarity Learning Applied in Computational Chemistry

Raimon Fabregat I De Aguilar-Amat

Over the last two decades, data-powered machine learning (ML) tools have profoundly transformed numerous scientific fields. In computational chemistry, machine learning applications have permitted faster predictions of chemical properties and provided powe ...

EPFL2022

Context-Aware Learning for Generative Models

José del Rocio Millán Ruiz, Ricardo Andres Chavarriaga Lozano, Robert Leeb, Serafeim Perdikis

This work studies the class of algorithms for learning with side-information that emerges by extending generative models with embedded context-related variables. Using finite mixture models (FMMs) as the prototypical Bayesian network, we show that maximum- ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2021

Landscape and training regimes in deep learning

Matthieu Wyart, Mario Geiger, Leonardo Petrini

Deep learning algorithms are responsible for a technological revolution in a variety oftasks including image recognition or Go playing. Yet, why they work is not understood.Ultimately, they manage to classify data lying in high dimension – a feat generical ...

2021

NSM Converges to a k-NN Regressor Under Loose Lipschitz Estimates

Colin Neil Jones, Emilio Maddalena

Although it is known that having accurate Lipschitz estimates is essential for certain models to deliver good predictive performance, refining this constant in practice can be a difficult task especially when the input dimension is high. In this letter, we ...

2020

Collaborative Filtering Under a Sybil Attack: Similarity Metrics do Matter!

Rachid Guerraoui, Anne-Marie Kermarrec, Antoine Rault, Davide Frey, Florestan Laurentin Marie De Moor

Recommendation systems help users identify interesting content, but they also open new privacy threats. In this paper, we deeply analyze the effect of a Sybil attack that tries to infer information on users from a user-based collaborative-filtering recomme ...

IEEE2018

Learning embeddings: efficient algorithms and applications

Cijo Jose

Learning to embed data into a space where similar points are together and dissimilar points are far apart is a challenging machine learning problem. In this dissertation we study two learning scenarios that arise in the context of learning embeddings and o ...

EPFL2018

Large Scale Graph Learning from Smooth Signals

Nathanaël Perraudin, Vasilis Kalofolias

Graphs are a prevalent tool in data science, as they model the inherent structure of the data. They have been used successfully in unsupervised and semi-supervised learning. Typically they are constructed either by connecting nearest samples, or by learnin ...

2017

Capturing the Moment: Lightweight Similarity Computations

Rachid Guerraoui, Rhicheek Patra, Georgios Damaskinos

Similarity computations are crucial in various web activities like advertisements, search or trust-distrust predictions. These similarities often vary with time as product perception and popularity constantly change with users' evolving inclination. The hu ...

IEEE2017

Adaptive relevance feedback for large-scale image retrieval

François Fleuret, Nicolae Suditu

Content-based image retrieval aims at substituting traditional indexing based on manual annotation by using automatically-extracted visual indexing features. Novel techniques are needed however to efficiently deal with the semantic gap (i.e. the partial ma ...

2016

Metric Learning with Rank and Sparsity Constraints

Volkan Cevher, Baran Gözcü, Bubacarr Bah

Choosing a distance preserving measure or metric is fun- damental to many signal processing algorithms, such as k- means, nearest neighbor searches, hashing, and compressive sensing. In virtually all these applications, the efficiency of the signal process ...

Ieee2014

Semi-supervised and unsupervised kernel-based novelty detection with application to remote sensing images

Frank Grégoire Jean de Morsier

The main challenge of new information technologies is to retrieve intelligible information from the large volume of digital data gathered every day. Among the variety of existing data sources, the satellites continuously observing the surface of the Earth ...

EPFL2014

Similarity Learning Over Large Collaborative Networks

Majid Yazdani

In this thesis, we propose novel solutions to similarity learning problems on collaborative networks. Similarity learning is essential for modeling and predicting the evolution of collaborative networks. In addition, similarity learning is used to perform ...

EPFL2013

Model-Based Similarity Measure in TimeCloud

Karl Aberer, Ho Young Jeung

This paper presents a new approach to measuring similarity over massive time-series data. Our approach is built on two principles: one is to parallelize the large amount computation using a scalable cloud serving system, called TimeCloud. The another is to ...

Springer2012

Machine learning for information retrieval

David Grangier

In this thesis, we explore the use of machine learning techniques for information retrieval. More specifically, we focus on ad-hoc retrieval, which is concerned with searching large corpora to identify the documents relevant to user queries. This identific ...

EPFL2008

Multimodal Evaluation for Medical Image Segmentation

Meritxell Bach Cuadra

This paper is a joint effort between five institutions that introduces several novel similarity measures and combines them to carry out a multimodal segmentation evaluation. The new similarity measures proposed are based on the location and the intensity v ...

Springer Berlin / Heidelberg2007