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Few-shot Learning for Efficient and Effective Machine Learning Model Adaptation

Machine learning (ML) enables artificial intelligent (AI) agents to learn autonomously from data obtained from their environment to perform tasks. Modern ML systems have proven to be extremely effective, reaching or even exceeding human intelligence. Altho ...

EPFL2024

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

Mitigating Object Dependencies: Improving Point Cloud Self-Supervised Learning through Object Exchange

Mathieu Salzmann, Sabine Süsstrunk, Tong Zhang, Yi Wu

In the realm of point cloud scene understanding, particularly in indoor scenes, objects are arranged following human habits, resulting in objects of certain semantics being closely positioned and displaying notable inter-object correlations. This can creat ...

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Performing and Detecting Backdoor Attacks on Face Recognition Algorithms

Alexander Carl Unnervik

The field of biometrics, and especially face recognition, has seen a wide-spread adoption the last few years, from access control on personal devices such as phones and laptops, to automated border controls such as in airports. The stakes are increasingly ...

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

Interpret3C: Interpretable Student Clustering Through Individualized Feature Selection

Julian Thomas Blackwell, Tanja Christina Käser Jacober, Paola Mejia Domenzain, Vinitra Swamy, Isadora Alves de Salles

Clustering in education, particularly in large-scale online environments like MOOCs, is essential for understanding and adapting to diverse student needs. However, the effectiveness of clustering depends on its interpretability, which becomes challenging w ...

2024

Topics in statistical physics of high-dimensional machine learning

Hugo Chao Cui

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

Enabling Uncertainty Estimation in Iterative Neural Networks

Pascal Fua, Doruk Oner, Nikita Durasov, Minh Hieu Lê

Turning pass-through network architectures into iterative ones, which use their own output as input, is a well-known approach for boosting performance. In this paper, we argue that such architectures offer an additional benefit: The convergence rate of the ...

Curran Associates2024

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

Understanding generalization and robustness in modern deep learning

Maksym Andriushchenko

In this thesis, we study two closely related directions: robustness and generalization in modern deep learning. Deep learning models based on empirical risk minimization are known to be often non-robust to small, worst-case perturbations known as adversari ...

EPFL2024

Deep learning approach for identification of H II regions during reionization in 21-cm observations - II. Foreground contamination

Michele Bianco, Jean-Paul Richard Kneib, Emma Elizabeth Tolley, Tianyue Chen

The upcoming Square Kilometre Array Observatory will produce images of neutral hydrogen distribution during the epoch of reionization by observing the corresponding 21-cm signal. However, the 21-cm signal will be subject to instrumental limitations such as ...

Oxford Univ Press2024

Boosting likelihood learning with event reweighting

Andrea Wulzer, Siyu Chen, Alfredo Glioti

Extracting maximal information from experimental data requires access to the likelihood function, which however is never directly available for complex experiments like those performed at high energy colliders. Theoretical predictions are obtained in this ...

Springer Nature2024

Learning Informative Health Indicators Through Unsupervised Contrastive Learning

Olga Fink

Monitoring the health of complex industrial assets is crucial for safe and efficient operations. Health indicators that provide quantitative real-time insights into the health status of industrial assets over time serve as valuable tools for, e.g., fault d ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2024

Deep Learning Theory Through the Lens of Diagonal Linear Networks

Scott William Pesme

In this PhD manuscript, we explore optimisation phenomena which occur in complex neural networks through the lens of

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-layer diagonal linear networks. This rudimentary architecture, which consists of a two layer feedforward linear network with a diagonal ...

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

Safe Deep Neural Networks

Kyle Michael Matoba

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

Test-time adaptation for 6D pose tracking

Andrea Cavallaro

We propose a test -time adaptation for 6D object pose tracking that learns to adapt a pre -trained model to track the 6D pose of novel objects. We consider the problem of 6D object pose tracking as a 3D keypoint detection and matching task and present a mo ...

Elsevier Sci Ltd2024

Multi-temporal forest monitoring in the Swiss Alps with knowledge-guided deep learning

Devis Tuia, Thiên-Anh Claris Nguyen, Marc Conrad Russwurm, Gaston Jean Lenczner

Monitoring forests, in particular their response to climate and land use change, requires studying long time scales. While efficient deep learning methods have been developed to process short time series of satellite imagery, leveraging long time series of ...

Elsevier Science Inc2024

Match Normalization: Learning-Based Point Cloud Registration for 6D Object Pose Estimation in the Real World

Mathieu Salzmann, Zheng Dang

In this work, we tackle the task of estimating the 6D pose of an object from point cloud data. While recent learning-based approaches have shown remarkable success on synthetic datasets, we have observed them to fail in the presence of real-world data. We ...

Ieee Computer Soc2024