Publications related to Brief Announcement: Byzantine-Tolerant Machine Learning

GANDALF: Graph-based transformer and Data Augmentation Active Learning Framework with interpretable features for multi-label chest Xray classification

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Elsevier2024

Learning From Heterogeneous Data Based on Social Interactions Over Graphs

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IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2023

From event-based surprise to lifelong learning. A journey in the timescales of adaptation

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Humans and animals constantly adapt to their environment over the course of their life. This thesis seeks to integrate various timescales of adaptation, ranging from the adaptation of synaptic connections between spiking neurons (milliseconds), rapid behav ...

EPFL2023

Learnable Wavelet Transform and Domain Adversarial Learning for Enhanced Bearing Fault Diagnosis

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Impact of Redundancy on Resilience in Distributed Optimization and Learning

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Assoc Computing Machinery2023

Smart filter aided domain adversarial neural network for fault diagnosis in noisy industrial scenarios

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Phenomenological theory of variational quantum ground-state preparation

Ivano Tavernelli, Giuseppe Carleo

The variational approach is a cornerstone of computational physics, considering both conventional and quantum computing computational platforms. The variational quantum eigensolver algorithm aims to prepare the ground state of a Hamiltonian exploiting para ...

Amer Physical Soc2023

A theory of memory consolidation and synaptic pruning in cortical circuits

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EPFL2023

Brain signals of a Surprise-Actor-Critic model: Evidence for multiple learning modules in human decision making

Wulfram Gerstner, Marco Philipp Lehmann, Vasiliki Liakoni, Kerstin Preuschoff, Johanni Michael Brea, Alireza Modirshanechi

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ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE2022

Optimal recovery of unsecured debt via interpretable reinforcement learning

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This paper addresses the issue of interpretability and auditability of reinforcement-learning agents employed in the recovery of unsecured consumer debt. To this end, we develop a deterministic policy-gradient method that allows for a natural integration o ...

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Efficient Model-based Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning via Optimistic Equilibrium Computation

Andreas Krause, Maryam Kamgarpour

We consider model-based multi-agent reinforcement learning, where the environment transition model is unknown and can only be learned via expensive interactions with the environment. We propose H-MARL (Hallucinated Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning), a no ...

JMLR-JOURNAL MACHINE LEARNING RESEARCH2022

Combining Model Driven and Data Driven Approaches for Inverse Problems in Parameter Estimation and Image Reconstruction: From Modelling to Validation

Thomas Yu

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EPFL2022

Practical Byzantine-resilient Stochastic Gradient Descent

Sébastien Louis Alexandre Rouault

Algorithms are everywhere. The recipe for the frangipane cake is an algorithm. If all the listed ingredients are available and the cook is sufficiently deft, after a finite number of small, well-defined steps a delicious dessert will exit the oven. Now, wh ...

EPFL2022

Self-Exciting Point Processes: Identification and Control

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This thesis addresses theoretical and practical aspects of identification and subsequent control of self-exciting point processes. The main contributions correspond to four separate scientific papers. In the first paper, we address the challenge of robust ...

EPFL2022

Algorithms for Efficient and Robust Distributed Deep Learning

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EPFL2022

Mechanical intelligence for learning embodied sensor-object relationships

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Intelligence involves processing sensory experiences into representations useful for prediction. Understanding sensory experiences and building these contextual representations without prior knowledge of sensor models and environment is a challenging unsup ...

Nature Portfolio2022

Towards Empathetic Open-Domain Chatbots

Yubo Xie

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EPFL2022

Network Classifiers Based On Social Learning

Ali H. Sayed, Stefan Vlaski, Virginia Bordignon

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IEEE2021

Loss landscape and symmetries in Neural Networks

Mario Geiger

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EPFL2021

Learning-based Image Coding: Early Solutions Reviewing and Subjective Quality Evaluation

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Nowadays, image and video are the data types that consume most of the resources of modern communication channels, both in fixed and wireless networks. Thus, it is vital to compress visual data as much as possible, while maintaining some target quality leve ...

SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING2021