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Decentralized optimization methods enable on-device training of machine learning models without a central coordinator. In many scenarios communication between devices is energy demanding and time consuming and forms the bottleneck of the entire system. We ...

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SCAFFOLD Stochastic Controlled Averaging for Federated Learning

Sebastian Urban Stich, Sai Praneeth Reddy Karimireddy, Ananda Theertha Suresh

Federated Averaging (FEDAVG) has emerged as the algorithm of choice for federated learning due to its simplicity and low communication cost. However, in spite of recent research efforts, its performance is not fully understood. We obtain tight convergence ...

JMLR-JOURNAL MACHINE LEARNING RESEARCH2020

Parallel-Correctness and Containment for Conjunctive Queries with Union and Negation

Bas Ketsman

Single-round multiway join algorithms first reshuffle data over many servers and then evaluate the query at hand in a parallel and communication-free way. A key question is whether a given distribution policy for the reshuffle is adequate for computing a g ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2019

Control of a micro-robot via infrared communication

This project is carried out under the partnership between LMTS and LAI to develop an autonomous micro-robot called DE-Ansect. This low power micro-robot moves thanks to dielectric elastomere actuators. For now the robot follows a black line on the ground. ...

2019

Merging into Single-Lane Roundabouts in the Presence of Uncertainty

Denis Gillet, Ezequiel González Debada

Merging efficiently into roundabouts represents a challenge for autonomous vehicles due to the speed difference between merging traffic flows and the lack of certainty regarding drivers' intent, specially when the road is shared with human drivers and/or i ...

2019

Adaptive Receiver Design for High Speed Optical Communication

Ilter Ozkaya

Conventional input/output (IO) links consume power, independent of changes in the bandwidth demand by the system they are deployed in. As the system is designed to satisfy the peak bandwidth demand, most of the time the IO links are idle but still consumin ...

EPFL2018

Beam shaping with tip-tilt varifocal mirror for indoor optical wireless communication

Matthias Imboden

MEMS mirrors are currently used in many applications to steer beams of light. An area of continued research is developing mirrors with varifocal capability that allows the beam to be shaped and focused. In this work, we study the varifocal capability of a ...

Optical Society of America2017

Versatile short-wave and mid-infrared sources based on wideband parametric conversion

Adrien Billat

The mid-infrared part of the optical spectrum is of high interest in a wide range of applications such as environmental gas monitoring, contaminant detection in the chemical, food or pharmaceutical industry, medical diagnosis, or defense and security. Rele ...

EPFL2017

Tunable insertion of multiple lines into a Kerr frequency comb using electro-optical modulators

Tobias Kippenberg, Maxim Karpov, Martin Hubert Peter Pfeiffer, Arne Kordts, Yan Yan, Lin Zhang, Ahmad Fallahpour, Amirhossein Mohajerin Ariaei, Cong Liu

We experimentally insert a flexible number of electro-optical (EO) comb lines into a Kerr frequency comb via EO modulation and demonstrate the use of combined Kerr and EO combs as light sources in coherent communications. The number of EO lines inserted in ...

Optical Society of America2017

Envirobot: A Bio-Inspired Environmental Monitoring Platform

Auke Ijspeert, Alessandro Crespi

Autonomous marine vehicles are becoming essential tools in aquatic environmental monitoring systems, and can be used for instance for data acquisition, remote sensing, and mapping of the spatial extent of pollutant spills. In this work, we present an uncon ...

Ieee2016

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