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This transition is accelerating the development of vision-language-action (VLA) models and robot foundation models that aim to provide robots with more general, adaptive, and deployable intelligence.<br>\r\nThis talk presents recent progress toward self-working humanoid robots, covering key ideas in embodied AI such as multimodal understanding, long-horizon planning, action generation, and real-world deployment. It also introduces recent research from Seoul National University BI Lab and AI Institute on human-robot interaction, personalization, continual adaptation, and language-conditioned robot learning, together with the Habilis framework developed at Tommoro Robotics for deployable humanoid intelligence.<br>\r\nFinally, the talk discusses a future architecture for self-working humanoids that integrates perception, memory, reasoning, planning, and action into a unified learning system. 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Several award programs are available:\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li>The <strong>Breakthrough Awards</strong> supports promising research that has high potential to lead to or make breakthroughs in breast cancer. The Breakthrough Award is structured with four different funding levels. Each level has a defined research scope :\r\n\t<ul>\r\n\t\t<li><u>Funding Level 1</u>: Innovative, high-risk/high-reward research that is in the earliest stages of idea development or is an untested theory that addresses an important problem.</li>\r\n\t\t<li><u>Funding Level 2</u>: Research that is already supported by substantial preliminary or published data and strongly validates clinical translation in a well-defined context within the breast cancer landscape.</li>\r\n\t\t<li><u>Funding Level 3</u><strong>: </strong>Advanced translational studies with a high degree of project readiness.</li>\r\n\t\t<li><u>Funding Level 4</u><strong>: </strong>Large-scale projects that will transform and revolutionize the clinical management and/or prevention of breast cancer. Human clinical trials are required.</li>\r\n\t</ul>\r\n\t</li>\r\n\t<li>The <strong>Clinical Research Extension Award</strong> aims to extend the data collection, follow-up, and analysis of breast cancer clinical research studies. Proposed research may entail a deeper molecular analysis of clinical samples, initiation of new correlative studies, biomarker validation, or continuing clinical follow-up of patients currently/previously enrolled in an open/ongoing or completed clinical trial.</li>\r\n\t<li>The <strong>Era of Hope Scholar Award</strong> supports individuals early in their careers who have demonstrated significant potential to effect meaningful change in breast cancer. These individuals should be exceptionally talented scientists who have shown that they are the “best and brightest” in their field(s)</li>\r\n\t<li>The <strong>Transformative Breast Cancer Consortium Award</strong> is designed to support large-scale, multidisciplinary and multi-institutional consortia that address major challenges in breast cancer through tightly integrated and collaborative research efforts. It enables up to five Principal Investigators, including a Consortium Director, to work within a coordinated framework where all project components are aligned toward a shared central hypothesis. The award specifically aims to foster innovative and paradigm-shifting approaches that go beyond the capabilities of individual laboratories, requiring strong integration across scientific, administrative, and logistical aspects, as well as the active involvement of breast cancer advocates and cross-disciplinary expertise.</li>\r\n\t<li>The <strong>Transformative Breast Cancer Consortium Development Award</strong> is intended to provide successful applicants the time and resources needed to bring investigators and breast cancer advocates together to establish a consortium framework and conduct preliminary research to support application to a future, full Transformative Breast Cancer Consortium Award (pending availability of funds). This is a development award and is a separate mechanism from the full consortium award. Recipients of the FY26 Transformative Breast Cancer Consortium Development Award are expected to submit an application to compete for the full Transformative Breast Cancer Consortium Award anticipated to be offered in a future fiscal year(s).</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<br>\r\nAll applications must align with at least one BCRP Overarching Challenge. The FY26 BCRP Challenges are listed at the end of this announcement.<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>Funding</strong>: <br>\r\nBreakthrough 1: $750K - $1.25M<br>\r\nBreakthrough 2: $1.65M - $3.35M<br>\r\nBreakthrough 3: $5.6M - $7M<br>\r\nBreakthrough 4: max. $21M<br>\r\nClinical Research Extension: $7M - $8.4M<br>\r\nEra of Hope: max. $4.9M<br>\r\nTransformative Breast Cancer Consortium Award: max. $35M<br>\r\nTransformative Breast Cancer Consortium Development Award: max. $140K<br>\r\n<sub>Note: Cost caps are <strong><em>total costs (direct plus indirect costs).</em> </strong>In accordance with EPFL guidelines, budgets should include a 20% overhead, and the total budget must remain within the grant’s maximum allowable funding.</sub><br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>Duration</strong>: <br>\r\nBreakthrough 1: 3 years<br>\r\nBreakthrough 2: 3-4 years<br>\r\nBreakthrough 3: 4 years<br>\r\nBreakthrough 4: 4 years<br>\r\nClinical Research Extension: 4 years<br>\r\nEra of Hope: 4 years<br>\r\nTransformative Breast Cancer Consortium Award: 4 years<br>\r\nTransformative Breast Cancer Consortium Development Award: 1 year<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>Eligibility: </strong>Applicants from international organizations or institutions are eligible to apply, and there are no citizenship restrictions. Programme-specific seniority levels are further defined <a href=\"https://ebrap.org/eBRAP/public/ViewFile.htm?fileId=36241307&fileType=pdf\">here</a>.<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>How to Apply</strong>: Pre-applications are submitted through the <a href=\"https://ebrap.org/eBRAP/public/index.htm\">eBRAP platform</a>. They should contain contact information, a letter of intent, and a list of collaborators and key personnel as suggested on the platform. Full applications will be made via a Grants.gov workspace.<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>Pre-Application Deadline: </strong>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li><strong>12 June 2026, </strong>5:00 p.m. Eastern time\r\n\r\n\t<ul>\r\n\t\t<li>Breakthrough Award Level 3</li>\r\n\t\t<li>Breakthrough Award Level 4</li>\r\n\t\t<li>Transformative Breast Cancer Consortium Award</li>\r\n\t</ul>\r\n\t</li>\r\n\t<li><strong>24 June 2026, </strong>5:00 p.m. Eastern time\r\n\t<ul>\r\n\t\t<li>Breakthrough Award Level 1-2</li>\r\n\t\t<li>Transformative Breast Cancer Consortium Development Award</li>\r\n\t\t<li>Clinical Research Extension Award</li>\r\n\t\t<li>Era of Hope Scholar Award</li>\r\n\t</ul>\r\n\t</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>Full Application Deadline</strong>: \r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li><strong>08 July 2026, </strong>11:59 p.m. Eastern time\r\n\r\n\t<ul>\r\n\t\t<li>Breakthrough Award Level 1-2</li>\r\n\t\t<li>Transformative Breast Cancer Consortium Development Award</li>\r\n\t\t<li>Clinical Research Extension Award</li>\r\n\t\t<li>Era of Hope Scholar Award</li>\r\n\t</ul>\r\n\t</li>\r\n\t<li><strong>30 September 2026, </strong>11:59 p.m. Eastern time\r\n\t<ul>\r\n\t\t<li>Breakthrough Award Level 3</li>\r\n\t\t<li>Breakthrough Award Level 4</li>\r\n\t\t<li>Transformative Breast Cancer Consortium Award</li>\r\n\t</ul>\r\n\t</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>Further information:</strong>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li>To find the full program announcements and to start your pre-application see <a href=\"https://ebrap.org/eBRAP/public/ProgramFY.htm?programFYId=705101\">here</a></li>\r\n\t<li>A useful summary of each call can be found <a href=\"https://ebrap.org/eBRAP/public/ViewFile.htm?fileId=36241307&fileType=pdf\">here</a></li>\r\n\t<li>For questions about the eBRAP or Grants.gov platforms, contact the <a href=\"mailto:[email protected]\">Research Office</a>.</li>\r\n\t<li>Grants.gov Funding Opportunity Numbers:\r\n\t<ul>\r\n\t\t<li>Breakthrough 1: <a href=\"https://ebrap.org/eBRAP/public/ViewFile.htm?fileId=35855304&fileType=doc&otherMimeType=application/msword\">HT942526BCRPBTA12</a></li>\r\n\t\t<li>Breakthrough 2: <a href=\"https://ebrap.org/eBRAP/public/ViewFile.htm?fileId=35855304&fileType=doc&otherMimeType=application/msword\">HT942526BCRPBTA12</a></li>\r\n\t\t<li>Breakthrough 3: <a href=\"https://ebrap.org/eBRAP/public/ViewFile.htm?fileId=35855250&fileType=doc&otherMimeType=application/msword\">HT942526BCRPBTA3</a></li>\r\n\t\t<li>Breakthrough 4: <a href=\"https://ebrap.org/eBRAP/public/ViewFile.htm?fileId=35855218&fileType=doc&otherMimeType=application/msword\">HT942526BCRPBTA4</a></li>\r\n\t\t<li>Clinical Research Extension: <a href=\"https://ebrap.org/eBRAP/public/ViewFile.htm?fileId=35855261&fileType=doc&otherMimeType=application/msword\">HT942526BCRPCREA</a></li>\r\n\t\t<li>Era of Hope: <a href=\"https://ebrap.org/eBRAP/public/ViewFile.htm?fileId=35855289&fileType=doc&otherMimeType=application/msword\">HT942526BCRPEOHS</a></li>\r\n\t\t<li>Transformative Breast Cancer Consortium Award: <a href=\"https://ebrap.org/eBRAP/public/ViewFile.htm?fileId=35853313&fileType=doc&otherMimeType=application/msword\">HT942526BCRPTBCCA</a></li>\r\n\t\t<li>Transformative Breast Cancer Consortium Development Award: <a href=\"https://ebrap.org/eBRAP/public/ViewFile.htm?fileId=35855260&fileType=doc&otherMimeType=application/msword\">HT942526BCRPTBCCDA</a></li>\r\n\t</ul>\r\n\t</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>FY26 BCRP Overarching Challenges</strong>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li>Prevent breast cancer (primary prevention)</li>\r\n\t<li>Identify determinants of breast cancer initiation, risk, or susceptibility</li>\r\n\t<li>Distinguish deadly from non-deadly breast cancers</li>\r\n\t<li>Conquer the problems of overdiagnosis and overtreatment</li>\r\n\t<li>Identify what drives breast cancer growth; determine how to stop it</li>\r\n\t<li>Identify why some breast cancers become metastatic</li>\r\n\t<li>Determine why/how breast cancer cells lie dormant for years and then re-emerge; determine how to prevent lethal recurrence</li>\r\n\t<li>Revolutionize treatment regimens by replacing them with ones that do all of the following: improve survival, are more effective, and are less toxic</li>\r\n\t<li>Eliminate the mortality associated with metastatic breast cancer</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nAlternatively, with adequate justification, applications may identify and address another overarching challenge related to <a href=\"https://cdmrp.health.mil/bcrp/pdfs/BreastCancerLandscape2025.pdf\">The Breast Cancer Landscape</a>. 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Today, we have sold over 1,000 upper-body dual-arm robots, NEXTAGE, both domestically and internationally, contributing to factory automation. I will introduce my company and the history of humanoid development at our company.<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<em>Yuichiro Kawasumi is a Chief Engineer at Kawada Technologies, Inc., specializing in humanoid software and social implementation. He began his career developing the HRP-2 series with AIST, establishing core humanoid control expertise. This led to the successful spin-out of NEXTAGE, a torso-type robot that transformed high-end research into practical factory automation. Building on this real-world success, Kawasumi recently launched a project to develop next-generation legged robots in late 2025. Returning to his roots in full-body mobility, he aims to pioneer the next era of humanoid automation to solve critical global labor shortages.</em></p>", "image_description": "", "creation_date": "2026-05-19T09:04:50", "last_modification_date": "2026-06-09T13:10:47", "link_label": "", "link_url": "", "canceled": "False", "cancel_reason": "", "place_and_room": "ME A3 31", "url_place_and_room": "https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==ME%20A3%2031", "url_online_room": "https://epfl.zoom.us/j/69010880666", "spoken_languages": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/spoken_languages/2/?format=api" ], "speaker": "<a href=\"https://jp.linkedin.com/in/yuichiro-kawasumi-669394192\">Yuichiro Kawasumi</a><br>\r\nDeputy Manager in charge of Humanoid Robot<br>\r\nKawada Technologies, Inc.<br>\r\nCore platform Laboratory<br>\r\n ", "organizer": "<a href=\"https://www.epfl.ch/research/domains/robotics/\">EPFL Robotics</a>", "contact": "<a href=\"https://people.epfl.ch/anca.rusu\">Anca Rusu</a>", "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/120799/", "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", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/417/?format=api" ] }, { "id": 71906, "title": "Workshop for Postdocs on the Creative Scientific Process", "slug": "workshop-for-postdocs-on-the-creative-scientific-p", "event_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/workshop-for-postdocs-on-the-creative-scientific-p", "visual_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33223/200x112.jpg", "visual_large_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33223/720x405.jpg", "visual_maxsize_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33223/max-size.jpg", "lang": "en", "start_date": "2026-06-25", "end_date": "2026-06-25", "start_time": null, "end_time": null, "description": "<p>Are you finding it difficult to come up with a truly innovative idea for your next grant application? Do you ever feel stuck in an experiment, in familiar ways of thinking, even when you <em>know</em> there must be new angles to explore?<br>\r\n<br>\r\nScience progress moves between two complementary modes: <em>Day Science</em>, the rigorous testing of ideas, and <em>Night Science</em>, the creative process where those ideas first emerge. Indeed, what we call the scientific method tells us what to do once we have a hypothesis – but where do these hypotheses come from in the first place? François Jacob famously called this part the realm of ‘<em>Night Science’</em>.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nDrawing on the <a href=\"https://night-science.org/home/learn/\">Night Science training framework</a> developed by Profs Itai Yanai and Martin Lercher, this workshop will introduce thinking tools and exercises to help you foster exploratory thinking, interdisciplinarity and a general attitude of openness towards new ideas applied to your own research challenges. This course is provided by a certified Night Science trainer from the <a href=\"https://www.epfl.ch/research/services/units/research-office/\" target=\"_blank\">EPFL Research Office</a>. <br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>This interactive workshop is designed specifically for postdoctoral researchers who want to:</strong>\r\n</p><ul>\r\n\t<li>Generate novel, high-risk/high-reward ideas for grants and publications</li>\r\n\t<li>Overcome conceptual or experimental roadblocks</li>\r\n\t<li>Expand their thinking beyond conventional frameworks</li>\r\n\t<li>Reconnect with the creative side of the scientific process</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<strong><em>When and Where</em></strong><strong>:</strong> June 25, 2026, 08:30-14:00. 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Lunch provided.<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong><em>Programme:</em></strong>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li><strong>08:30-08:45 : </strong>Breakfast + Welcome coffee </li>\r\n\t<li><strong>08:45-10:15 : </strong>Session 1: Night science, openness, improvisation, takes two to think + Exercise</li>\r\n\t<li><strong>10:15-10:30</strong> :Coffee break</li>\r\n\t<li><strong>10:30-12:00</strong> : Session 2: Import/export, 2 languages + Exercise</li>\r\n\t<li><strong>12:00-12:30</strong> : Lunch</li>\r\n\t<li><strong>12:30-13:30</strong> : Session 3: Hypothesis is a liability, what’s the question + Exercise</li>\r\n\t<li><strong>13:30-14:00</strong> : Wrap-up Discussion </li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong><em>Registration</em></strong><strong>:</strong> Participation limited to <strong>30 attendees</strong>, on a first-come first-served basis. 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Ferreira De Sousa Correia,<br>\r\nChemistry and Chemical Engineering doctoral program<br>\r\nThesis Nr. 11408<br>\r\n<br>\r\nTo take part in the public defense, please contact directly the speaker</p>", "image_description": "", "creation_date": "2026-05-21T15:42:42", "last_modification_date": "2026-05-21T15:42:44", "link_label": "", "link_url": "", "canceled": "False", "cancel_reason": "", "place_and_room": "MXF 010", "url_place_and_room": "https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==MXF%20010", "url_online_room": "", "spoken_languages": [], "speaker": "<a href=\"mailto:[email protected]\"><strong>Maddalena ELIA</strong></a>", "organizer": "", "contact": "<a href=\"mailto:[email protected]\"><strong>Maddalena ELIA</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": "EDCH", "file": null, "icalendar_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/export/120826/", "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/9/?format=api" ] }, { "id": 71922, "title": "U.S. CDMRP – Alzheimer's Research Program | Research Funding", "slug": "us-cdmrp-alzheimer-s-research-program-research-fun", "event_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/us-cdmrp-alzheimer-s-research-program-research-fun", "visual_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33239/200x112.jpg", "visual_large_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33239/720x405.jpg", "visual_maxsize_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33239/max-size.jpg", "lang": "en", "start_date": "2026-06-22", "end_date": "2026-06-22", "start_time": null, "end_time": null, "description": "<strong>Aim</strong>: Through the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program (CDMRP), the Department of Defense is announcing the 2026 <strong>Alzheimer's Research Program (AZRP) </strong>Awards. Several award programs are available:\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li>The <strong>Transforming Care Award </strong>aims to support well-designed, non-incremental clinical research that develops and implements interventions, innovations, and solutions to address critical challenges in dementia care. Projects should lead to improved quality of life, reduced caregiver burden and stress, and enhanced care delivery and outcomes for individuals living with AD/ADRD.</li>\r\n\t<li>The <strong>Transforming Diagnosis Award </strong>supports non-incremental, solution-oriented research that addresses critical barriers to timely and accurate diagnosis, disease monitoring, and prognosis in AD/ADRD. Projects should demonstrate clear potential to improve accessibility, clinical implementation, and the reliability of diagnostic and prognostic approaches.</li>\r\n\t<li>The <strong>Transforming Research Award </strong>supports non-incremental, high-impact research that aims to drive transformative advances in reducing risk and preventing the development of AD/ADRD. Projects should demonstrate strong potential to accelerate prevention strategies and deliver meaningful improvements in patient outcomes and quality of life.<strong> </strong>All projects must respond to one of the focus areas listed <a href=\"https://ebrap.org/eBRAP/public/ViewFile.htm?fileId=36241238&fileType=pdf\">here</a>.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<strong>Funding</strong>:\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li>Transforming Care Award: $1.6M - $1.9M</li>\r\n\t<li>Transforming Diagnosis Award: $1.5M - $1.7M</li>\r\n\t<li>Transforming Research Award: max. $1M</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<br>\r\n<sub>Note: Cost caps are <strong>total costs (direct plus indirect costs). </strong>In accordance with EPFL guidelines, budgets should include a 20% overhead, and the total budget must remain within the grant’s maximum allowable funding</sub><br>\r\n<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>Duration</strong>: \r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li>Transforming Care Award: 4 years</li>\r\n\t<li>Transforming Diagnosis Award: 4 years</li>\r\n\t<li>Transforming Research Award: 3 years</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<strong>Eligibility: </strong>Applicants from international organizations or institutions are eligible to apply, and there are no citizenship restrictions. Program-specific seniority levels and eligibility criteria are further defined within each award mechanism <a href=\"https://ebrap.org/eBRAP/public/ViewFile.htm?fileId=36243245&fileType=pdf\">here</a>.<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>How to Apply</strong>: Pre-applications are submitted through the <a href=\"https://ebrap.org/eBRAP/public/index.htm\">eBRAP platform</a>. They should contain contact information, a letter of intent, and a list of collaborators and key personnel as suggested on the platform. Full applications will be made via a Grants.gov workspace.<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>Pre-Application Deadline: 22 June 2026, </strong>5:00 p.m. Eastern time<br>\r\n<strong>Full Application Deadline</strong>: <strong>24 September 2026</strong>, 11:59 p.m Eastern Time<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>Further information:</strong>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li>To find the full program announcements and to start your pre-application see <a href=\"https://ebrap.org/eBRAP/public/ProgramFY.htm?programFYId=719106\">here</a></li>\r\n\t<li>A useful summary of each call can be found <a href=\"https://ebrap.org/eBRAP/public/ViewFile.htm?fileId=36243245&fileType=pdf\">here</a></li>\r\n\t<li>For questions about the eBRAP or Grants.gov platforms, contact the <a href=\"mailto:[email protected]\">Research Office</a></li>\r\n\t<li>Grants.gov Funding Opportunity Numbers:\r\n\t<ul>\r\n\t\t<li>Transforming Care Award: <a href=\"https://ebrap.org/eBRAP/public/ViewFile.htm?fileId=36241229&fileType=pdf\">HT942526AZRPTRCA</a></li>\r\n\t\t<li>Transforming Diagnosis Award: <a href=\"https://ebrap.org/eBRAP/public/ViewFile.htm?fileId=36241231&fileType=pdf\">HT942526AZRPTRDA</a></li>\r\n\t\t<li>Transforming Research Award: <a href=\"https://ebrap.org/eBRAP/public/ViewFile.htm?fileId=36241238&fileType=pdf\">HT942526AZRPTRRA</a></li>\r\n\t</ul>\r\n\t</li>\r\n</ul>", "image_description": "", "creation_date": "2026-05-21T16:12:42", "last_modification_date": "2026-05-21T16:12:42", "link_label": "", "link_url": "", "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": "", "organizer": "", "contact": "<a href=\"mailto:[email protected]\">Research Office</a>", "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/120829/", "category": { "id": 16, "code": "PROP", "fr_label": "Appel à proposition", "en_label": "Call for proposal", "activated": true }, "academic_calendar_category": null, "domains": [], "mementos": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/9/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/140/?format=api" ] }, { "id": 71930, "title": "Generative models for black-box optimization of complex objectives", "slug": "generative-models-for-black-box-optimization-of-co", "event_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/generative-models-for-black-box-optimization-of-co", "visual_url": null, "visual_large_url": null, "visual_maxsize_url": null, "lang": "en", "start_date": "2026-07-09", "end_date": "2026-07-09", "start_time": "10:00:00", "end_time": "12:00:00", "description": "<u>EDIC candidacy exam</u><br>\r\nExam president: Prof. Nicolas Flammarion<br>\r\nThesis advisor: Prof. Pascal Fua<br>\r\nCo-examiner: Prof. Alexander Mathis<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<u>Abstract</u><br>\r\nMany high-impact problems in science and engineering reduce to optimizing a complex objective, where each evaluation is costly and often unreliable: physical experiments fail, simulators diverge, and stochastic systems return noisy feedback. 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": "2026-05-29T15:08:13", "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/6/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/27/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/48/?format=api" ] } ] }
