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Many methods have been proposed to improve on Adam, but we have a poor understanding of why it works better in the first place. This talk will be about understanding what makes language models hard for gradient descent, and how Adam fixes it. We give evidence that the problem is due to imbalance in the data: in language, some words are very frequent but the majority are rare, following Zipf’s law; the kh most frequent word has frequency proportional to 1/k. This heavy-tailed imbalance leads to poor performance with gradient descent, while Adam and other sign-like methods do not suffer from the same slowdown. We show empirical evidence on language models, and prove a separation in the performance of gradient and a simplified form of Adam, sign descent, on a linear bigram model as we the vocabulary size grows.<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>Bio</strong><br>\r\nFrederik Kunstner is Marie Curie postdoctoral fellow at INRIA, working with Francis Bach, and an incoming professor at the University of Waterloo. <br>\r\nHis research lies at the intersection of optimization and machine learning, with a particular focus on understanding the foundations of methods used in deep learning.<br>\r\nHe received his PhD from the university of British Columbia under the supervision of Mark Schmidt, following his undergraduate studies at EPFL.<br>\r\nHis work has received a Best Paper Award at AISTATS 2021, a Best Doctoral Dissertation Award from the Canadian AI Association in 2025, and an Honourable Mention from AAAI/ACM SIGAI in 2025.</p>", "image_description": "", "creation_date": "2026-11-03T10:45:15", "last_modification_date": "2026-11-04T10:04:36", "link_label": "Zoom Link", "link_url": "https://epfl.zoom.us/j/63357554422?pwd=78nYhdNWmhKeRVL7ps31u6FHBi9xiv.1", "canceled": "False", "cancel_reason": "", "place_and_room": "ELE 117", "url_place_and_room": "https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==ELE%20117", "url_online_room": "https://epfl.zoom.us/j/63357554422?pwd=78nYhdNWmhKeRVL7ps31u6FHBi9xiv.1", "spoken_languages": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/spoken_languages/2/?format=api" ], "speaker": "Dr. Frederik Kunstner", "organizer": "<a href=\"https://ai.epfl.ch/\">EPFL AI Center</a> & MLO Lab", "contact": "Nicolas Machado", "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": "", "file": null, "icalendar_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/export/122536/", "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/8/?format=api", "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/416/?format=api" ] }, { "id": 73085, "title": "AI Center Seminar - AI Fundamentals series - Prof. Lorenzo Rosasco", "slug": "ai-center-seminar-ai-fundamentals-series-prof-lore", "event_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/ai-center-seminar-ai-fundamentals-series-prof-lore", "visual_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/34273/200x112.jpg", "visual_large_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/34273/720x405.jpg", "visual_maxsize_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/34273/max-size.jpg", "lang": "en", "start_date": "2026-11-12", "end_date": "2026-11-12", "start_time": "14:00:00", "end_time": "15:00:00", "description": "<p>This talk is jointly organized by the EPFL AI Center, the TML Lab, and the ELLIS Lausanne and Genoa Units, as part of the AI Fundamentals series.<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>Title</strong><br>\r\nNonparametric learning of dynamical systems and control<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>Abstract</strong><br>\r\nWe consider the problem of learning from a single finite trajectory of a dynamical system. More precisely, we study discrete-time autonomous stochastic systems defining time-homogeneous ergodic Markov processes. We first focus on estimating the optimal one-step prediction function by nonlinear least squares and develop a foundational analysis yielding high-probability guarantees with respect to the invariant measure of the process. This analysis makes explicit how the non-independent and non-identically distributed nature of trajectory data modifies classical supervised learning analysis. It also readily extends to higher-order processes and finite state spaces. We then discuss how the analysis can be refined using weaker notions of ergodicity and assumptions relating the geometry of the chain to the prediction task. Finally, we show how the same approach extends to learning Koopman operators, which can in turn be used to control nonlinear dynamical systems. In particular, we discuss a model predictive control approach for switching dynamical systems.<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>Bio</strong><br>\r\nLorenzo Rosasco is a professor at the University of Genova and a principal investigator at the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT). He is a founder and coordinator of the Machine Learning Genova Center (MaLGa) and the Laboratory for Computational and Statistical Learning. He leads the Sustainable Artificial Intelligence and Learning unit at IIT. His research focuses on developing efficient machine-learning methods with rigorous theoretical foundations. He received his PhD from the University of Genova in 2006, after holding visiting positions at MIT, the Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago, and the Johann Radon Institute. From 2006 to 2013, he was a postdoctoral fellow and research scientist in MIT’s Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences. He is an ELLIS Fellow and co-director of both the ELLIS program “Theory, Algorithms and Computations of Modern Learning Systems” and the ELLIS Genoa Unit. He has received several awards, including an ERC Consolidator Grant.</p>", "image_description": "", "creation_date": "2026-11-04T10:35:22", "last_modification_date": "2026-11-04T10:47:08", "link_label": "Zoom Link", "link_url": "https://epfl.zoom.us/j/61633194192?pwd=al4tguzbd0fzXyRjvu7fxOCWtf5aCE.1", "canceled": "False", "cancel_reason": "", "place_and_room": "ELE 117", "url_place_and_room": "https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==ELE%20117", "url_online_room": "https://epfl.zoom.us/j/61633194192?pwd=al4tguzbd0fzXyRjvu7fxOCWtf5aCE.1", "spoken_languages": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/spoken_languages/2/?format=api" ], "speaker": "Prof. Lorenzo Rosasco", "organizer": "EPFL AI Center, TML Lab & ELLIS Lausanne Unit", "contact": "Nicolas Machado", "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": "", "file": null, "icalendar_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/export/122596/", "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/8/?format=api", "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/416/?format=api" ] }, { "id": 73088, "title": "BMI Special Seminar // Pierre J. Magistretti: Neuron-glia metabolic coupling: relevance for neuroenergetics, plasticity and neuropsychiatric diseases", "slug": "bmi-special-seminar-pierre-j-magistretti-neuron-gl", "event_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/bmi-special-seminar-pierre-j-magistretti-neuron-gl", "visual_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/34276/200x112.jpg", "visual_large_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/34276/720x405.jpg", "visual_maxsize_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/34276/max-size.jpg", "lang": "en", "start_date": "2026-11-19", "end_date": "2026-11-19", "start_time": "14:00:00", "end_time": "15:00:00", "description": "<p>A tight metabolic coupling between astrocytes and neurons is a central feature of brain energy metabolism (Magistretti and Allaman, Neuron 2015; Nat Rev Neurosci 2018; Bolaños and Magistretti, Nat Metab 2025). Over the years, my lab has identified and molecularly characterized two key mechanisms of neurometabolic coupling: neuromodulator (VIP, adenosine, and noradrenaline)-induced glycogenolysis in astrocytes (Magistretti et al., PNAS 1981; Magistretti et al., J. Neurosci 1986) and glutamate-stimulated aerobic glycolysis (Pellerin and Magistretti, PNAS 1994). Both processes lead to the release of lactate from astrocytes, which serves as an energy substrate for neurons as defined by the Astrocyte-Neuron Lactate Shuttle (ANLS) model.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nSubsequent work in my lab showed that lactate also acts as a signaling molecule, enhancing NMDA receptor activity, promoting long-term memory, and activating gene expression programs linked to synaptic plasticity (Suzuki et al., Cell 2011; Yang et al., PNAS 2014; Margineanu et al., Front Neurosci 2018; Vezzoli et al., Cereb Cortex 2019). Electrophysiological and behavioral studies further demonstrated that astrocytic lactate supply is activity-dependent and scales with computational demand (Dembitskaya et al., PNAS 2022). Recent data indicate that lactate potentiates NMDAR currents via monocarboxylate transporter (MCT)-dependent neuronal uptake, conversion to pyruvate, increased NADH, and redox-sensitive modulation of GluN2B subunits, involving CaMKII signaling (Fiumelli et al., J Physiol, 2026).<br>\r\n<br>\r\nRecent preclinical studies in conditions in which pharmacological stimulation of the ANLS restores behavioral deficits present in hypometabolic conditions such as Glut1 deficiency syndrome (de Vivo disease) and Alzheimer’s disease support the strategy of targeting astrocytes to overcome brain hypometabolism (Beard et al., Front Physiol 2022; Lengacher et al., Pharmaceuticals 2026). In preclinical models of depression, lactate was shown to exert antidepressant effects that depend on neurogenesis (Carrard et al., Mol Psychiatry 2018, 2021).<br>\r\n<br>\r\nTogether, these findings establish lactate as a metabolic–signaling nexus linking astrocyte function to neuronal computation, plasticity, and behavior, and open new therapeutic perspectives for neurodegenerative, mood, and metabolic brain disorders.<br>\r\n </p>", "image_description": "", "creation_date": "2026-11-04T16:03:00", "last_modification_date": "2026-11-04T16:16:11", "link_label": "Web Page", "link_url": "https://www.kaust.edu.sa/en/study/faculty/pierre-magistretti?utm_source=chatgpt.com", "canceled": "False", "cancel_reason": "", "place_and_room": "SV 1717", "url_place_and_room": "https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==SV%201717", "url_online_room": "https://epfl.zoom.us/j/64813563657", "spoken_languages": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/spoken_languages/2/?format=api" ], "speaker": "Pierre J. Magistretti, Division of Biomedical Sciences, KAUST, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia", "organizer": "LNC, BMI, SV Host: Carmen Sandi", "contact": "[email protected]", "is_internal": "False", "theme": "", "vulgarization": { "id": 2, "fr_label": "Public averti", "en_label": "Informed public" }, "registration": { "id": 3, "fr_label": "Entrée libre", "en_label": "Free" }, "keywords": "", "file": null, "icalendar_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/export/122601/", "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/1/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/6/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/9/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/19/?format=api" ] }, { "id": 73102, "title": "Introduction to Image Analysis using ImageJ/Fiji", "slug": "introduction-to-image-analysis-using-imagejfiji", "event_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/introduction-to-image-analysis-using-imagejfiji", "visual_url": null, "visual_large_url": null, "visual_maxsize_url": null, "lang": "en", "start_date": "2026-12-02", "end_date": "2026-12-03", "start_time": "14:00:00", "end_time": "18:00:00", "description": "<p>The EPFL Center for Imaging is running a workshop over two consecutive afternoons: Introduction to image analysis using ImageJ/Fiji. Participation will be limited. The format will be a combination of tutorials and hands-on exercises (you will need a laptop with a decent size screen and admin privileges).<strong> </strong>\r\n</p><div> </div>\r\n\r\n<div><strong>Target group</strong></div>\r\n\r\n<div>This workshop is open to everyone, regardless of institutional affiliation, professional background and level, or field of study or activity. Participants from academia, industry, and beyond are equally welcome. No prior experience in image analysis is required.<strong> </strong></div>\r\n\r\n<div> </div>\r\n\r\n<div><strong>Time:</strong>\r\n\r\n<div>Wednesday 2nd December 2026, 14:00 to 18:00</div>\r\n\r\n<div>Thursday 3rd December 2026, 14:00 to 18:00<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>Place:</strong><br>\r\nEPFL, Ecublens. <br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>Format:</strong><br>\r\nIn-person.<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>Requirements:</strong><br>\r\nAll you need is a laptop and an interest in learning scientific image analysis. The workshop is intended for beginners. If you already develop your own image analysis workflows, the level may be too introductory for you.</div>\r\n\r\n<div>\r\n<div> </div>\r\n\r\n<div>Participants are expected to attend both afternoons; attendance on only one day is not possible.</div>\r\n\r\n<div><br>\r\n<strong>Scope:</strong><br>\r\n1. introduction to digital image analysis<br>\r\n2. making measurements<br>\r\n3. image ethics & reproducibility</div>\r\n\r\n<div>4. recording and modifying simple macros</div>\r\n\r\n<div>5. advanced topics (deep learning, tracking, writing fancy macros with LLMs, …)<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>Cost:</strong><br>\r\n- EPFL: CHF 100.- (0 for STI, SV, SB)<br>\r\n- Other academia: CHF 200.-<br>\r\n- Industry and other participants: CHF 400.-<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>Applying: </strong></div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"https://go.epfl.ch/2026-12-Fiji-Workshop\">https://go.epfl.ch/2026-12-Fiji-Workshop</a>", "image_description": "", "creation_date": "2026-11-05T14:30:29", "last_modification_date": "2026-11-05T16:58:15", "link_label": "Registration form", "link_url": "https://go.epfl.ch/2026-12-Fiji-Workshop", "canceled": "False", "cancel_reason": "", "place_and_room": "AAC 0 20", "url_place_and_room": "https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==AAC%200%2020", "url_online_room": "", "spoken_languages": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/spoken_languages/2/?format=api" ], "speaker": "Florian Aymanns, Mallory Wittwer, Daniel Sage, Edward Andò, Simon Nørrelykke", "organizer": "<a href=\"https://imaging.epfl.ch/\">EPFL Center for Imaging</a>", "contact": "<a href=\"mailto:[email protected]?subject=Introduction%20to%20Image%20Analysis%20using%20ImageJ%2FFiji\">Florian Aymanns</a>", "is_internal": "False", "theme": "", "vulgarization": { "id": 1, "fr_label": "Tout public", "en_label": "General public" }, "registration": { "id": 1, "fr_label": "Sur inscription", "en_label": "Registration required" }, "keywords": "Workshop, Fiji, Imaging, Image Analysis", "file": null, "icalendar_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/export/122619/", "category": { "id": 4, "code": "DIVERS", "fr_label": "Autres types d’événement", "en_label": "Miscellaneous", "activated": true }, "academic_calendar_category": null, "domains": [], "mementos": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/5/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/6/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/284/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/318/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/412/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/442/?format=api" ] }, { "id": 64852, "title": "Running Effective Meetings : LeaderLike Facilitation Skills (EN)", "slug": "running-effective-meetings-leaderlike-facilitat-17", "event_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/running-effective-meetings-leaderlike-facilitat-17", "visual_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/26684/200x112.jpg", "visual_large_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/26684/720x405.jpg", "visual_maxsize_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/26684/max-size.jpg", "lang": "en", "start_date": "2027-02-22", "end_date": "2027-03-10", "start_time": "13:30:00", "end_time": "17:30:00", "description": "<p>You lead, run, and attend meetings – at varying levels of involvement, and with varying levels of success both as meeting owner and participant. You would like to learn new skills and acquire tools to be more effective both online / offline and run hybrid meetings and communicate effectively using powerful and persuasive presentation, influence, and connection skills. 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Ein Computerspiel erfinden? Eine Animation gestalten?<br>\r\nWenn dich eines dieser Dinge interessiert, bist du hier am richtigen Ort! Tausche und teile deine Ideen, lerne zu programmieren und entdecke Informatikberufe. Die <a href=\"https://www.epfl.ch/education/education-and-science-outreach/de/jugendliche/coding-club/\">Coding Club for Girls</a> Workshops sind für Mädchen im Alter von 11 bis 15 Jahren.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nDie Workshops werden in Zusammenarbeit mit go tec! organisiert. Die Workshops können individuell besucht werden und die Teilnahme ist kostenlos.<br>\r\nAb der Teilnahme an vier Workshops pro Jahr wird eine Teilnahmebestätigung ausgehändigt. <br>\r\n <br>\r\n<strong>Ort:</strong> go tec! Labor, Neuhausen am Rheinfall<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>Datum und Zeit:</strong><br>\r\n<strong>02. Dezember 2026 : Mittwoch von 13:30 bis 16:00 Uhr // Scratch-me<br>\r\n09. Dezember 2026</strong><strong> : Mittwoch von 13:30 bis 16:00 Uhr // GameDesign</strong><br>\r\nDie Inhalte der Workshops sind untenstehend beschrieben.<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>Scratch-me - Mittwoch, 02. Dezember 2026</strong><br>\r\nEinführung in die Programmierlogik mit der Konzeption von Animationen, Spielen und vieles mehr! Codieren ist wie eine neue Sprache lernen. Worte zu kennen bedeutet nicht unbedingt, die Sprache zu beherrschen. Man muss die Worte auch in der richtigen Reihenfolge platzieren können. Bei diesem Workshop lernt ihr Scratch, eine vereinfachte Programmiersprache, die sich in der Form von Blöcken präsentiert, die man richtig zusammenstellen muss.<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>GameDesign - Mittwoch, 09. Dezember 2026</strong><br>\r\nErlebe neue Abenteuer mit unserem Lieblingskater! Egal ob du Anfängerin oder bereits Scratch-Expertin bist, es warten neuen Aufgaben auf dich! <br>\r\n<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>Bedingungen</strong>\r\n</p><ul>\r\n\t<li>Gratis</li>\r\n\t<li><a href=\"https://forms.gle/MyxricscPXZugpmu5\">Anmeldung unter diesem Link </a></li>\r\n\t<li><a href=\"https://www.epfl.ch/education/education-and-science-outreach/de/teilnahmebedingungen/\">Allgemeine Teilnahmebedingungen EPFL - SPS Aktivitäten</a> </li>\r\n</ul>", "image_description": "", "creation_date": "2026-04-23T13:41:13", "last_modification_date": "2026-07-09T14:22:56", "link_label": "Anmeldung", "link_url": "https://forms.gle/MyxricscPXZugpmu5", "canceled": "False", "cancel_reason": "", "place_and_room": "go tec! 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Ein Computerspiel erfinden? Eine Animation gestalten?<br>\r\nWenn dich eines dieser Dinge interessiert, bist du hier am richtigen Ort! Tausche und teile deine Ideen, lerne zu programmieren und entdecke Informatikberufe.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nDie <a href=\"https://www.epfl.ch/education/education-and-science-outreach/de/jugendliche/coding-club/\">Coding Club for Girls</a> Workshops sind für Mädchen im Alter von 11 bis 15 Jahren und die Teilnahme ist kostenlos. Ab der Teilnahme an vier Workshops pro Jahr wird eine Teilnahmebestätigung ausgehändigt. <br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>Ort:</strong> Smartfeld, St. Gallen<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>Datum und Zeit:</strong><br>\r\n<strong>Mittwoch, 18. November 2026: 13:30 bis 16:00 Uhr // Hello 3D World</strong><br>\r\n<strong>Mittwoch, 25. November 2026 : 13:30 bis 16:00 Uhr // Webdesignerin</strong><br>\r\n<br>\r\nDie Inhalte der Workshops sind untenstehend beschrieben.<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>Bedingungen</strong>\r\n</p><ul>\r\n\t<li>Gratis</li>\r\n\t<li><a href=\"https://forms.gle/Bk4vieCLDPepMSL37\">Anmeldung unter diesem Link </a></li>\r\n\t<li><a href=\"https://www.epfl.ch/education/education-and-science-outreach/de/teilnahmebedingungen/\">Allgemeine Teilnahmebedingungen EPFL - SPS Aktivitäten</a> </li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<strong>Workshops:<br>\r\nHello 3D World - Mittwoch, 18. November 2026</strong><br>\r\nWie denkst du wurden die Figuren und Kulissen in den Filmen Shrek, Cars, Ice Age oder Kung Fu Panda gestaltet? Beim Entwerfen und Animieren von 3D-Objekten kannst Du wie im richtigen Animationsstudio gleichzeitig in die Rolle einer Künstlerin und einer Informatikerin schlüpfen. Du wirst dreidimensionale Objekte rund um das Thema Wald gestalten und in einem zweiten Schritt deiner Fantasie freien Lauf lassen und deine eigenen 3D-Objekte entwerfen!<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>Webdesignerin - Mittwoch, 25. November 2026</strong><br>\r\nEntdecke den Hintergrund einer Webseite und entwerfe deine eigene von A bis Z mit derselben Sprache wie die Profis! 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You would like to learn new skills and acquire tools to be more effective both online / offline and run hybrid meetings and communicate effectively using powerful and persuasive presentation, influence, and connection skills. The LeaderLike Facilitator Program will help you to steer processes, meetings, while keeping participants on track with impeccable timing, to create tangible results – while communicating, structuring, and delivering messages and remaining congruent to self.<br>\r\n<br>\r\n3 half-days hybrid workshop: September 2, 6 and 13, 2027 (from 1.30 to 5.30 pm)</p>", "image_description": "", "creation_date": "2026-10-29T14:27:58", "last_modification_date": "2026-10-29T14:30:17", "link_label": "Registration", "link_url": "https://bundesamtfp4.lms.hr.cloud.sap/learning/user/deeplink.do?linkId=ITEM_DETAILS&componentID=KL_8&targetStudentSysGUID=&componentTypeID=COURS&fromSF=Y&revisionDate=1790928000000&actingAs=#/4B154816513AC5FC19006C003DCB3CD3", "canceled": "False", "cancel_reason": "", "place_and_room": "", "url_place_and_room": "", "url_online_room": "", "spoken_languages": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/spoken_languages/2/?format=api" ], "speaker": "Robert Kahn", "organizer": "KeepLearning", "contact": "[email protected]", "is_internal": "True", "theme": "", "vulgarization": { "id": 1, "fr_label": "Tout public", "en_label": "General public" }, "registration": { "id": 1, "fr_label": "Sur inscription", "en_label": "Registration required" }, "keywords": "", "file": null, "icalendar_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/export/122467/", "category": { "id": 15, "code": "FORM", "fr_label": "Formations internes", "en_label": "Internal trainings", "activated": true }, "academic_calendar_category": null, "domains": [], "mementos": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/6/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/145/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/431/?format=api" ] }, { "id": 73015, "title": "AI Center Seminar - AI for Society series - Dr. Alexandra Olteanu - \"(Un)rigorous AI\"", "slug": "ai-center-seminar-ai-for-society-series-dr-alexa-2", "event_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/ai-center-seminar-ai-for-society-series-dr-alexa-2", "visual_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/34207/200x112.jpg", "visual_large_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/34207/720x405.jpg", "visual_maxsize_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/34207/max-size.jpg", "lang": "en", "start_date": "2026-11-19", "end_date": "2026-11-19", "start_time": "13:30:00", "end_time": "14:30:00", "description": "<p>The talk is jointly organized by the <a href=\"https://ai.epfl.ch/\">EPFL AI Center</a> and the <a href=\"http://thecoalalab.com/\" target=\"_blank\">CoALA Lab</a> as part of the AI for Society seminar series.<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong><em>Hosting Professor: Prof. Ken Holstein</em></strong><br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>Title</strong><br>\r\n(Un)rigorous AI<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>Abstract</strong><br>\r\nBeliefs and assumptions about what AI systems can, will, or should do abound. Although often unsupported and sometimes highly questionable, these beliefs and assumptions have had a formative impact on how AI systems are built, evaluated and described. This in turn impacts how and in what settings these systems are deployed and used, and thus when they fail. However, foreseeing and addressing the consequences of putting insufficiently rigorous AI artifacts (e.g., models, systems, applications, outputs, data) into practice are often seen as the purview of responsible AI—which is generally seen as separate from rigor, as it is understood as more concerned with ethics, stakeholders, societal impacts and harms, and real-world deployment scenarios. I argue that what responsible AI asks researchers and practitioners is <em>to uphold principles of scientific integrity in their work</em>. Although responsible AI is often seen as out of scope for an AI researcher or practitioner not engaged in that space, any scientist and practitioner should see<em> rigor</em> as well within scope. In this talk, my goal is to provide a useful framework for broadening our collective understanding of what rigorous AI research and practice should entail and, in doing so, to help scaffold much-needed dialogue about and scrutiny of current AI system development and evaluation practices.<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>Bio</strong><br>\r\nAlexandra Olteanu is a Responsible AI researcher. Until recently she was a principal researcher at Microsoft Research Montreal, part of the Fairness, Accountability, Transparency, and Ethics (FATE) Montreal team; which she was a founding member of and later rebuilt. She is also an associate industry member at Mila. Her work routinely unpacks and challenges practices and assumptions made when designing, evaluating, deploying or communicating about AI systems. Her most recent work focuses on 1) rigor in AI (with a focus on conceptual clarity, measurement, and evaluation), and 2) human agency (with a focus on anthropomorphic AI systems’ design, behavior, and impact). Before joining Microsoft Research, Alexandra was a Social Good Fellow at IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center. Alexandra has co-organized tutorials/workshops and has served as PC/SPC/AC and in many other service roles for most major web, social media, and responsible AI conferences. She has also served as the inaugural co-chair of the Fairness, Accountability, Transparency and Ethics on the Web track @ The 2023 Web Conference, and as the 2024 Program Co-chair for the ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency. Alexandra holds a PhD from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland.</p>", "image_description": "", "creation_date": "2026-10-30T09:20:36", "last_modification_date": "2026-10-30T09:20:57", "link_label": "Zoom Link", "link_url": "https://epfl.zoom.us/j/68619273145?pwd=dKc90MabfoxCnGO643Mbn0Odl39mxe.1", "canceled": "False", "cancel_reason": "", "place_and_room": "ELE 117", "url_place_and_room": "https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==ELE%20117", "url_online_room": "https://epfl.zoom.us/j/68619273145?pwd=dKc90MabfoxCnGO643Mbn0Odl39mxe.1", "spoken_languages": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/spoken_languages/2/?format=api" ], "speaker": "Dr. Alexandra Olteanu", "organizer": "<a href=\"https://ai.epfl.ch/\">EPFL AI Center</a> & <a href=\"http://thecoalalab.com/\" target=\"_blank\">CoALA Lab</a> ", "contact": "Nicolas Machado", "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": "", "file": null, "icalendar_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/export/122475/", "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/1/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/6/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/8/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/416/?format=api" ] }, { "id": 73078, "title": "Inverse Methods for State and Physical Property Estimation of Non-Cooperative Space Objects", "slug": "inverse-methods-for-state-and-physical-property-es", "event_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/inverse-methods-for-state-and-physical-property-es", "visual_url": null, "visual_large_url": null, "visual_maxsize_url": null, "lang": "en", "start_date": "2026-11-26", "end_date": "2026-11-26", "start_time": "13:30:00", "end_time": "15:30:00", "description": "<u>EDIC candidacy exam</u><br>\r\nExam president: Prof. Pascal Frossard<br>\r\nThesis advisor: Prof. Mathieu Salzmann<br>\r\nThesis co-advisor: Dr. Andrew Lawrence Price<br>\r\nCo-examiner: Prof. Jean-Paul Kneib<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<u>Abstract</u><br>\r\nThe rapid proliferation of satellites and orbital debris is making Earth's orbital environment increasingly congested, raising the risk of collisions and threatening the long-term sustainability of space operations. Mitigating these risks requires accurate knowledge of the objects in orbit, including not only their trajectories but also their rotational dynamics, geometry, and physical properties. While direct inspection in space could provide some of this information, inspection missions are costly and difficult to scale to the growing orbital population. Ground-based optical observations, such as telescope images and light curves, offer a comparatively accessible and cost-effective means of monitoring these objects. However, many satellites and debris objects are non-cooperative, providing no telemetry or prior knowledge of their physical characteristics, making the recovery of such information from optical measurements particularly challenging.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nThese observations result from complex interactions between the object's physical properties and motion, illumination conditions, atmospheric effects, and the observing instrument. Accurately modeling how these factors produce the measured signal, known as the forward problem, is already challenging. Recovering the unknown state and physical properties from the observations, the inverse problem, is considerably more difficult. Measurements are often sparse, noisy, and incomplete, while different combinations of parameters can produce nearly identical observations, making the problem ambiguous and potentially ill-posed.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nThis research aims to develop efficient and robust algorithms for estimating the states and physical properties of non-cooperative space objects from optical observations. By combining physics-based models with numerical optimization, probabilistic inference, and learning-based methods, the objective is to recover information that is difficult to obtain using conventional approaches. Particular attention will be given to exploiting physical constraints, quantifying uncertainty, improving computational efficiency, and bridging the gap between simulated and real observations.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nUltimately, this research seeks to enable a more complete understanding of spacecraft and orbital debris from limited observations, supporting safer and more sustainable operations in Earth's orbit.<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<u>Background papers</u><br>\r\n \r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li>Burton, A., Robinson, L., & Frueh, C. (2024). Light curve attitude estimation using particle swarm optimizers. Advances in Space Research, 74(11), 5619–5638.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n <a href=\"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0273117724009281\" title=\"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0273117724009281\">https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0273117724009281</a><br>\r\n \r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li>Radev, S. T., Mertens, U. K., Voss, A., Ardizzone, L., & Köthe, U. (2022). BayesFlow: Learning complex stochastic models with invertible neural networks. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, 33(4), 1452–1466.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n <a href=\"https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.06281\" title=\"https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.06281\">https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.06281</a><br>\r\n \r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li>Liu, Y., Sun, Z., Zhang, L., Xi, L., Dong, W., & Deng, F. (2025). Spacecraft-NeRF: High-Fidelity Reconstruction of Spacecraft by Neural Radiance Field Based Implicit Representation. 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