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Chiesa, Prof. M. T. Göös<br>\r\nComputer and Communication Sciences doctoral program<br>\r\nThesis Nr. 11413<br>\r\n<br>\r\nTo take part in the public defense, please contact directly the speaker</p>", "image_description": "", "creation_date": "2026-05-18T10:32:31", "last_modification_date": "2026-05-18T10:32:33", "link_label": "", "link_url": "", "canceled": "False", "cancel_reason": "", "place_and_room": "BC 420", "url_place_and_room": "https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==BC%20420", "url_online_room": "", "spoken_languages": [], "speaker": "<a href=\"mailto:[email protected]\"><strong>Ziyi GUAN</strong></a>", "organizer": "", "contact": "<a href=\"mailto:[email protected]\"><strong>Ziyi GUAN</strong></a><br>\r\n ", "is_internal": "False", "theme": "", "vulgarization": { "id": 1, "fr_label": "Tout public", "en_label": "General public" }, "registration": { "id": 3, "fr_label": "Entrée libre", "en_label": "Free" }, "keywords": "EDIC", "file": null, "icalendar_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/export/120784/", "category": { "id": 12, "code": "SOUTE", "fr_label": "Soutenances de thèses", "en_label": "Thesis defenses", "activated": true }, "academic_calendar_category": null, "domains": [], "mementos": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/1/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/6/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/27/?format=api" ] }, { "id": 71626, "title": "Persona Formation in LLMs: Pretraining Origins, Alignment Persistence, and Safety Implications", "slug": "persona-formation-in-llms-pretraining-origins-alig", "event_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/persona-formation-in-llms-pretraining-origins-alig", "visual_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/32954/200x112.jpg", "visual_large_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/32954/720x405.jpg", "visual_maxsize_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/32954/max-size.jpg", "lang": "en", "start_date": "2026-06-08", "end_date": "2026-06-08", "start_time": "10:00:00", "end_time": "12:00:00", "description": "<u>EDIC candidacy exam</u><br>\r\nExam president: Prof. Martin Jaggi<br>\r\nThesis advisor: Prof. Bob West<br>\r\nCo-examiner: Prof. Antoine Bosselut<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<u>Abstract</u><br>\r\ncoming soon<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<u>Selected papers</u>\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li>\r\n\t<ul>\r\n\t\t<li>Safety Pretraining: Toward the Next Generation of Safe AI<br>\r\n\t\t(<a href=\"https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.16980\">https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.16980</a>)</li>\r\n\t\t<li>Persona Vectors: Monitoring and Controlling Character Traits in Language Models (<a href=\"https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21509\">https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21509</a>)</li>\r\n\t\t<li>The Assistant Axis: Situating and Stabilizing the Default Persona of Language Models (<a href=\"https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.10387v1\">https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.10387v1</a>)</li>\r\n\t</ul>\r\n\t</li>\r\n</ul>", "image_description": "", "creation_date": "2026-04-17T13:31:08", "last_modification_date": "2026-04-20T11:56:35", "link_label": "", "link_url": "", "canceled": "False", "cancel_reason": "", "place_and_room": "BC 333", "url_place_and_room": "https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==BC%20333", "url_online_room": "", "spoken_languages": [], "speaker": "Viktor Moskvoretskii", "organizer": "", "contact": "[email protected]", "is_internal": "False", "theme": "", "vulgarization": { "id": 1, "fr_label": "Tout public", "en_label": "General public" }, "registration": { "id": 3, "fr_label": "Entrée libre", "en_label": "Free" }, "keywords": "EDIC candidacy exam", "file": null, "icalendar_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/export/120418/", "category": { "id": 1, "code": "CONF", "fr_label": "Conférences - 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Classical black-box optimizers struggle in this regime, where evaluation budgets are tight and the feasible region is hard to characterize a priori. Our work investigates how the statistical expressivity of modern generative samplers can be leveraged in black-box optimization. We propose that these samplers enable efficient navigation of feasible sets and optimization of geometrically complex objectives under limited, unreliable observations. <br>\r\n<br>\r\nTwo complementary lines of work have already been studied. The main one, SPARROW, demonstrated that a sampler-driven optimizer can substantially reduce the number of function calls needed to maximize complex and unreliable objectives. A parallel line established that samplers can be steered to satisfy hard constraints without sacrificing the statistical diversity of the generated samples. Because SPARROW imposes minimal assumptions on the underlying sampler, these constrained samplers can drive it directly, opening a path to constrained black-box optimization.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nBuilding on these results, two directions are planned. The first is theoretical: a deeper mathematical study of sampler-driven optimization, drawing on the broader literature on sample-efficient black-box optimization, in order to derive stronger guarantees and more efficient algorithms. The second is applied: applying the methods to concrete domains and exploiting the structure those domains expose to sharpen performance beyond what a pure black-box treatment can achieve.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nThe applications of low-budget black-box optimization are diverse, including engineering design (e.g. aerodynamic shape optimization, mechanical components), scientific discovery (e.g. protein and molecule design under synthesizability and stability constraints), and the safety and security of opaque ML systems (e.g. query-efficient adversarial probing, red-teaming of black-box models).<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<u>Selected papers</u><br>\r\n ", "image_description": "", "creation_date": "2026-05-22T12:53:32", "last_modification_date": "2026-05-22T13:09:04", "link_label": "", "link_url": "", "canceled": "False", "cancel_reason": "", "place_and_room": "BC 333", "url_place_and_room": "https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==BC%20333", "url_online_room": "", "spoken_languages": [], "speaker": "Edouard Dufour", "organizer": "", "contact": "[email protected]", "is_internal": "False", "theme": "", "vulgarization": { "id": 1, "fr_label": "Tout public", "en_label": "General public" }, "registration": { "id": 3, "fr_label": "Entrée libre", "en_label": "Free" }, "keywords": "EDIC candidacy exam", "file": null, "icalendar_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/export/120837/", "category": { "id": 1, "code": "CONF", "fr_label": "Conférences - Séminaires", "en_label": "Conferences - Seminars", "activated": true }, "academic_calendar_category": null, "domains": [], "mementos": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/48/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/6/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/27/?format=api" ] }, { "id": 71933, "title": "Controlling and Guiding Generative Models for Three-Dimensional Shape Optimization", "slug": "controlling-and-guiding-generative-models-for-thre", "event_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/controlling-and-guiding-generative-models-for-thre", "visual_url": null, "visual_large_url": null, "visual_maxsize_url": null, "lang": "en", "start_date": "2026-07-07", "end_date": "2026-07-07", "start_time": "11:00:00", "end_time": "13:00:00", "description": "<u>EDIC candidacy exam</u><br>\r\nExam president: Prof. Martin Rajman<br>\r\nThesis advisor: Prof. Pascal Fua<br>\r\nCo-examiner: Prof. Mark Pauly<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<u>Abstract</u><br>\r\nOptimizing 3D shapes within the latent spaces of deep generative models is fundamental to computer assisted engineering, yet remains prone to a critical failure mode we term manifold drift: the tendency of gradient-based optimization to move latent vectors away from the manifold of valid shapes. This problem is exacerbated in state-of-the-art 3D shape generative models that operate in increasingly high-dimensional latent spaces where valid shapes occupy a vanishingly small fraction of the full space. Existing mitigation strategies, including latent regularization and flow-matching approaches, either sacrifice expressiveness, demand a difficult trade-off between objective guidance and generative fidelity that remains prone to manifold drift, or are computationally infeasible to scale to modern, large-capacity 3D shape models. We introduce a novel optimizer-corrector framework that alternates between gradient steps for objective minimization and guided flow matching to drive the latent state back to the valid shape manifold. By decoupling objective minimization from flow-based correction, optimizing freely and correcting strictly, this alternating design avoids inherent trade-offs, preserving geometric validity without sacrificing expressiveness while remaining computationally feasible on modern 3D shape models. 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