Publications related to Bertarelli Foundation Chair of Integrative Neuroscience

Safe Deep Neural Networks

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

Infusing structured knowledge priors in neural models for sample-efficient symbolic reasoning

Mattia Atzeni

The ability to reason, plan and solve highly abstract problems is a hallmark of human intelligence. Recent advancements in artificial intelligence, propelled by deep neural networks, have revolutionized disciplines like computer vision and natural language ...

EPFL2024

Task-driven neural network models predict neural dynamics of proprioception: Neural network model weights

Alexander Mathis, Alberto Silvio Chiappa, Alessandro Marin Vargas, Axel Bisi

Proprioception tells the brain the state of the body based on distributed sensors in the body. However, the principles that govern proprioceptive processing from those distributed sensors are poorly understood. Here, we employ a task-driven neural network ...

Zenodo2024

Generalization of Scaled Deep ResNets in the Mean-Field Regime

Volkan Cevher, Grigorios Chrysos, Fanghui Liu

Despite the widespread empirical success of ResNet, the generalization properties of deep ResNet are rarely explored beyond the lazy training regime. In this work, we investigate scaled ResNet in the limit of infinitely deep and wide neural networks, of wh ...

2024

Deep Learning Generalization with Limited and Noisy Labels

Mahsa Forouzesh

Deep neural networks have become ubiquitous in today's technological landscape, finding their way in a vast array of applications. Deep supervised learning, which relies on large labeled datasets, has been particularly successful in areas such as image cla ...

EPFL2023

Breaking the Curse of Dimensionality in Deep Neural Networks by Learning Invariant Representations

Leonardo Petrini

Artificial intelligence, particularly the subfield of machine learning, has seen a paradigm shift towards data-driven models that learn from and adapt to data. This has resulted in unprecedented advancements in various domains such as natural language proc ...

EPFL2023

Fixing the problems of deep neural networks will require better training data and learning algorithms

Martin Schrimpf, Adrien Christophe Doerig, Matthias Bethge, Jianghao Liu, Kuntal Ghosh

Bowers et al. argue that deep neural networks (DNNs) are poor models of biological vision because they often learn to rival human accuracy by relying on strategies that differ markedly from those of humans. We show that this problem is worsening as DNNs ar ...

Cambridge Univ Press2023

Leveraging Unlabeled Data to Track Memorization

Patrick Thiran, Mahsa Forouzesh, Hanie Sedghi

Deep neural networks may easily memorize noisy labels present in real-world data, which degrades their ability to generalize. It is therefore important to track and evaluate the robustness of models against noisy label memorization. We propose a metric, ca ...

2023

Supervised learning and inference of spiking neural networks with temporal coding

Ana Stanojevic

The way biological brains carry out advanced yet extremely energy efficient signal processing remains both fascinating and unintelligible. It is known however that at least some areas of the brain perform fast and low-cost processing relying only on a smal ...

EPFL2023

Expectation consistency for calibration of neural networks

Florent Gérard Krzakala, Lenka Zdeborová, Lucas Andry Clarte, Bruno Loureiro, Bruno Loureiro

Despite their incredible performance, it is well reported that deep neural networks tend to be overoptimistic about their prediction confidence. Finding effective and efficient calibration methods for neural networks is therefore an important endeavour tow ...

2023

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

Topologically Better Delineation of Curvilinear Structures

Doruk Oner

Curvilinear structures are frequently observed in a variety of domains and are essential for comprehending neural circuits, detecting fractures in materials, and determining road and irrigation canal networks. It can be costly and time-consuming to manuall ...

EPFL2023

Bed Topography Inference from Velocity Field Using Deep Learning

Christophe Ancey, Mehrdad Kiani Oshtorjani

Measuring bathymetry has always been a major scientific and technological challenge. In this work, we used a deep learning technique for inferring bathymetry from the depth-averaged velocity field. The training of the neural network is based on 5742 labora ...

2023

Learnable latent embeddings for joint behavioural and neural analysis

Mackenzie Mathis, Steffen Schneider, Jin Hwa Lee

Mapping behavioural actions to neural activity is a fundamental goal of neuroscience. As our ability to record large neural and behavioural data increases, there is growing interest in modelling neural dynamics during adaptive behaviours to probe neural re ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2023

Fundamental Limits in Statistical Learning Problems: Block Models and Neural Networks

Elisabetta Cornacchia

This thesis focuses on two selected learning problems: 1) statistical inference on graphs models, and, 2) gradient descent on neural networks, with the common objective of defining and analysing the measures that characterize the fundamental limits. In th ...

EPFL2023

Calibrated Adaptive Teacher for Domain Adaptive Intelligent Fault Diagnosis

Olga Fink, Florent Evariste Forest

Intelligent Fault Diagnosis (IFD) based on deep learning has proven to be an effective and flexible solution, attracting extensive research. Deep neural networks can learn rich representations from vast amounts of representative labeled data for various ap ...

2023

An exact mapping from ReLU networks to spiking neural networks

Wulfram Gerstner, Stanislaw Andrzej Wozniak, Ana Stanojevic, Giovanni Cherubini, Angeliki Pantazi

Deep spiking neural networks (SNNs) offer the promise of low-power artificial intelligence. However, training deep SNNs from scratch or converting deep artificial neural networks to SNNs without loss of performance has been a challenge. Here we propose an ...

2023

Adversarial Training Should Be Cast As a Non-Zero-Sum Game

Volkan Cevher, Seyed Hamed Hassani, Fabian Ricardo Latorre Gomez

One prominent approach toward resolving the adversarial vulnerability of deep neural networks is the two-player zero-sum paradigm of adversarial training, in which predictors are trained against adversarially-chosen perturbations of data. Despite the promi ...

2023

Stop Wasting my FLOPS: Improving the Efficiency of Deep Learning Models

Angelos Katharopoulos

Deep neural networks have completely revolutionized the field of machine learning by achieving state-of-the-art results on various tasks ranging from computer vision to protein folding. However, their application is hindered by their large computational an ...

EPFL2022

Controllability and Interpretability in Affective Speech Synthesis

Bastian Schnell

Thanks to Deep Learning Text-To-Speech (TTS) has achieved high audio quality with large databases. But at the same time the complex models lost any ability to control or interpret the generation process. For the big challenge of affective TTS it is infeasi ...

EPFL2022