Publications related to Abductive reasoning

Monotonicity Reasoning in the Age of Neural Foundation Models

The recent advance of large language models (LLMs) demonstrates that these large-scale foundation models achieve remarkable capabilities across a wide range of language tasks and domains. The success of the statistical learning approach challenges our unde ...

Springer2023

Exploiting Explanations to Detect Misclassifications of Deep Learning Models in Power Grid Visual Inspection

Olga Fink, Giovanni Floreale

In the context of automatic visual inspection of infrastructures by drones, Deep Learning (DL) models are used to automatically process images for fault diagnostics. While explainable Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithms can provide explanations to asse ...

Research Publishing2023

Distribution Inference Risks: Identifying and Mitigating Sources of Leakage

Robert West, Maxime Jean Julien Peyrard, Valentin Hartmann, Léo Nicolas René Meynent

A large body of work shows that machine learning (ML) models can leak sensitive or confidential information about their training data. Recently, leakage due to distribution inference (or property inference) attacks is gaining attention. In this attack, the ...

IEEE COMPUTER SOC2023

Estimating and Improving the Robustness of Attributions in Text

Ádám Dániel Ivánkay

End-to-end learning methods like deep neural networks have been the driving force in the remarkable progress of machine learning in recent years. However, despite their success, the deployment process of such networks in safety-critical use cases, such as ...

EPFL2023

DARE: Towards Robust Text Explanations in Biomedical and Healthcare Applications

Pascal Frossard, Ádám Dániel Ivánkay

Along with the successful deployment of deep neural networks in several application domains, the need to unravel the black-box nature of these networks has seen a significant increase recently. Several methods have been introduced to provide insight into t ...

Assoc Computational Linguistics-Acl2023

Higher Order Asymptotics: Applications to Satellite Conjunction and Boundary Problems

Soumaya Elkantassi

Higher-order asymptotics provide accurate approximations for use in parametric statistical modelling. In this thesis, we investigate using higher-order approximations in two-specific settings, with a particular emphasis on the tangent exponential model. ...

EPFL2023

Specific Gestalt principles cannot explain (un)crowding

Michael Herzog, Oh-Hyeon Choung, Einat Rashal

The standard physiological model has serious problems accounting for many aspects of vision, particularly when stimulus configurations become slightly more complex than the ones classically used, e.g., configurations of Gabors rather than only one or a few ...

2023

On Smoothed Explanations: Quality and Robustness

Pascal Frossard, Seyed Mohsen Moosavi Dezfooli, Michail Vlachos, Ahmad Ajalloeian

Explanation methods highlight the importance of the input features in taking a predictive decision, and represent a solution to increase the transparency and trustworthiness in machine learning and deep neural networks (DNNs). However, explanation methods ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2022

Space Oddity? A Statistical Formulation of Conjunction Assessment

Anthony Christopher Davison, Soumaya Elkantassi

Satellite conjunctions involving "near misses" of space objects are becoming increasingly likely. One approach to risk analysis for them involves the computation of the collision probability, but this has been regarded as having some counterintuitive prope ...

AMER INST AERONAUTICS ASTRONAUTICS2022

Reshaping Perception for Autonomous Driving with Semantic Keypoints

Lorenzo Bertoni

The field of artificial intelligence is set to fuel the future of mobility by driving forward the transition from advanced driver-assist systems to fully autonomous vehicles (AV). Yet the current technology, backed by cutting-edge deep learning techniques, ...

EPFL2022

A Data-Knowledge Hybrid Driven Method for Gas Turbine Gas Path Diagnosis

Dimitrios Kyritsis, Jinzhi Lu, Xiaochen Zheng, Jinwei Chen

Gas path fault diagnosis of a gas turbine is a complex task involving field data analysis and knowledge-based reasoning. In this paper, a data-knowledge hybrid driven method for gas path fault diagnosis is proposed by integrating a physical model-based gas ...

MDPI2022

Learning Analytics for Adaptive and Self-Improving Learning Environments for Inductive Teaching

Louis Pierre Faucon

The emergence of digital technology is changing education in many ways. A particularly interesting aspect of this transformation is the development of learning environments that can automatically adapt to individual students and can collect data in order t ...

EPFL2021

Multi-Dimensional Explanation of Target Variables from Documents

Boi Faltings, Claudiu-Cristian Musat, Diego Matteo Antognini

Automated predictions require explanations to be interpretable by humans. Past work used attention and rationale mechanisms to find words that predict the target variable of a document. Often though, they result in a tradeoff between noisy explanations or ...

ASSOC ADVANCEMENT ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE2021

A Bayesian Model of Individual Differences and Flexibility in Inductive Reasoning for Categorization of Examples

Pierre Dillenbourg, Jennifer Kaitlyn Olsen, Louis Pierre Faucon

Inductive reasoning is an important educational practice but can be difficult for teachers to support in the classroom due to the high level of preparation and classroom time needed to choose the teaching materials that challenge students' current views. I ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2020

Inference methods for the study of interacting biological oscillators in single-cells

Colas Noé Droin

Biological oscillators are pervasive in biology, covering all aspects of life from enzyme kinetics reactions to population dynamics. Although their behaviour has been intensively studied in the last decades, the recent advances of high-throughput experimen ...

EPFL2020

Towards Institutions for Mixed Human-Robot Societies

Alcherio Martinoli, Stevan Tomic, Alicja Barbara Roelofsen

We report an exploration into normative reasoning for robots in human societies using the concept of institutions. ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2018

ChoiceRank: Identifying Preferences from Node Traffic in Networks

Matthias Grossglauser, Lucas Maystre

Understanding how users navigate in a network is of high interest in many applications. We consider a setting where only aggregate node-level traffic is observed and tackle the task of learning edge transition probabilities. We cast it as a preference lear ...

2017

From Nano- to Micrometer Scale: The Role of Antisolvent Treatment on High Performance Perovskite Solar Cells

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Francesco Stellacci, Giulia Grancini, Pascal Alexander Schouwink, Yi Zhang, Peng Gao, Sanghyun Paek, Kyung Taek Cho, Evangelia-Nefeli Athanasopoulou

To date, antisolvent treatment has become one of the most important means to fabricate high efficiency perovskite solar cells (PSCs); however, the few reported antisolvents have not been analyzed on a uniform platform, and there is hitherto no clear reason ...

American Chemical Society2017

Indoor Scene Parsing with Instance Segmentation, Semantic Labeling and Support Relationship Inference

Mathieu Salzmann, Wei Zhuo

Over the years, indoor scene parsing has attracted a growing interest in the computer vision community. Existing methods have typically focused on diverse subtasks of this challenging problem. In particular, while some of them aim at segmenting the image i ...

Ieee2017

Principled Parallel Mean-Field Inference for Discrete Random Fields

Pascal Fua, François Fleuret, Pierre Bruno Baqué, Timur Bagautdinov

Mean-field variational inference is one of the most popular approaches to inference in discrete random fields. Standard mean-field optimization is based on coordinate descent and in many situations can be impractical. Thus, in practice, various parallel te ...

2016