Publications associées à A Stochastic Conditioning Scheme for Diverse Human Motion Prediction

Topics in statistical physics of high-dimensional machine learning

In the past few years, Machine Learning (ML) techniques have ushered in a paradigm shift, allowing the harnessing of ever more abundant sources of data to automate complex tasks. The technical workhorse behind these important breakthroughs arguably lies in ...

EPFL2024

Machine Learning for Modeling Stock Returns

Teng Andrea Xu

Throughout history, the pace of knowledge and information sharing has evolved into an unthinkable speed and media. At the end of the XVII century, in Europe, the ideas that would shape the "Age of Enlightenment" were slowly being developed in coffeehouses, ...

EPFL2024

Random matrix methods for high-dimensional machine learning models

Antoine Philippe Michel Bodin

In the rapidly evolving landscape of machine learning research, neural networks stand out with their ever-expanding number of parameters and reliance on increasingly large datasets. The financial cost and computational resources required for the training p ...

EPFL2024

A graph convolutional autoencoder approach to model order reduction for parametrized PDEs

Jan Sickmann Hesthaven, Federico Pichi

The present work proposes a framework for nonlinear model order reduction based on a Graph Convolutional Autoencoder (GCA-ROM). In the reduced order modeling (ROM) context, one is interested in obtaining real -time and many-query evaluations of parametric ...

Academic Press Inc Elsevier Science2024

Efficient Temporally-Aware DeepFake Detection using H.264 Motion Vectors

Sabine Süsstrunk, Alessio Verardo, Yufan Ren, Peter Arpad Grönquist, Qingyi He

Video DeepFakes are fake media created with Deep Learning (DL) that manipulate a person’s expression or identity. Most current DeepFake detection methods analyze each frame independently, ignoring inconsistencies and unnatural movements between frames. Som ...

2024

Aggregating Spatial and Photometric Context for Photometric Stereo

David Honzátko

Photometric stereo, a computer vision technique for estimating the 3D shape of objects through images captured under varying illumination conditions, has been a topic of research for nearly four decades. In its general formulation, photometric stereo is an ...

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

Robust machine learning for neuroscientific inference

Steffen Schneider

Modern neuroscience research is generating increasingly large datasets, from recording thousands of neurons over long timescales to behavioral recordings of animals spanning weeks, months, or even years. Despite a great variety in recording setups and expe ...

EPFL2024

Network time series forecasting in photovoltaics power production

Jelena Simeunovic

Accurate forecasting of photovoltaic (PV) power production is crucial for the integration of more renewable energy sources into the power grid. PV power production is highly intermittent, due to the stochastic cloud behaviour and cloud dynamics. Previous w ...

EPFL2024

Automated Human Motion Analysis and Synthesis

Sena Kiciroglu

Human motion analysis and synthesis is integral to many computer vision applications, from autonomous driving to sports analysis. In this thesis, we address several problems in this domain. First we consider active viewpoint selection for pose estimation w ...

EPFL2023

Dual-frequency spectral radar retrieval of snowfall microphysics: a physics-driven deep-learning approach

Alexis Berne, Gionata Ghiggi, Anne-Claire Marie Billault--Roux

The use of meteorological radars to study snowfall microphysical properties and processes is well established, in particular via a few distinct techniques: the use of radar polarimetry, of multi-frequency radar measurements, and of the radar Doppler spectr ...

COPERNICUS GESELLSCHAFT MBH2023

Transformer Models for Vision

Jean-Baptiste Francis Marie Juliette Cordonnier

The recent developments of deep learning cover a wide variety of tasks such as image classification, text translation, playing go, and folding proteins. All these successful methods depend on a gradient-based learning algorithm to train a model on massive ...

EPFL2023

Modeling Structured Data in Attention-based Models

Alireza Mohammadshahi

Natural language processing has experienced significant improvements with the development of Transformer-based models, which employ self-attention mechanism and pre-training strategies. However, these models still present several obstacles. A notable issue ...

EPFL2023

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

Evaluating the effect of sparse convolutions on point cloud compression

Touradj Ebrahimi, Davi Nachtigall Lazzarotto

The use of point clouds as an imaging modality has been rapidly growing, motivating research on compression methods to enable efficient transmission and storage for many applications. While compression standards relying on conven- tional techniques such as ...

2023

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

Robust Training and Verification of Deep Neural Networks

Fabian Ricardo Latorre Gomez

According to the proposed Artificial Intelligence Act by the European Comission (expected to pass at the end of 2023), the class of High-Risk AI Systems (Title III) comprises several important applications of Deep Learning like autonomous driving vehicles ...

EPFL2023

Communication-efficient distributed training of machine learning models

Thijs Vogels

In this thesis, we explore techniques for addressing the communication bottleneck in data-parallel distributed training of deep learning models. We investigate algorithms that either reduce the size of the messages that are exchanged between workers, or th ...

EPFL2023

Can Self-Supervised Neural Representations Pre-Trained on Human Speech distinguish Animal Callers?

Mathew Magimai Doss, Eklavya Sarkar

Self-supervised learning (SSL) models use only the intrinsic structure of a given signal, independent of its acoustic domain, to extract essential information from the input to an embedding space. This implies that the utility of such representations is no ...

ISCA2023

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