EPFL papers @ ICML 2025

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The following EPFL papers have been accepted to ICML 2025 (Forty-Second International Conference on Machine Learning).
The conference will be held from July 13-19, 2025 in Vancouver, Canada
Below is a list of ICML 2025 papers with at least one EPFL author:
- IL-SOAR : Imitation Learning with Soft Optimistic Actor cRitic by Stefano Viel, Luca Viano, Volkan Cevher
- Best of Both Worlds: Regret Minimization versus Minimax Play by Adrian Müller, Jon Schneider, Stratis Skoulakis, Luca Viano, Volkan Cevher
- Continuous-Time Analysis of Heavy Ball Momentum in Min-Max Games by Yi Feng, Kaito Fujii, Stratis Skoulakis, Xiao Wang, Volkan Cevher
- Layer-wise Quantization for Quantized Optimistic Dual Averaging by Anh Duc Nguyen, Ilia Markov, Zhengqing Wu, Ali Ramezani-Kebrya, Kimon Antonakopoulos, Dan Alistarh, Volkan Cevher
- Chameleon: A Flexible Data-mixing Framework for Language Model Pretraining and Finetuning by Wanyun Xie, Francesco Tonin, Volkan Cevher
- Accelerating Spectral Clustering under Fairness Constraints by Francesco Tonin, Alex Lambert, Johan Suykens, Volkan Cevher
- Training Deep Learning Models with Norm-Constrained LMOs by Thomas Pethick, Wanyun Xie, Kimon Antonakopoulos, Zhenyu Zhu, Antonio Silveti-Falls, Volkan Cevher; (spotlight)
- Generalization of noisy SGD in unbounded non-convex settings by Leello Tadesse Dadi, Volkan Cevher
- Learn to Vaccinate: Combining Structure Learning and Effective Vaccination for Epidemic and Outbreak Control by Sepehr Elahi, Paula Mürmann, Patrick Thiran
- IT^3 : Idempotent Test-Time Training by Nikita Durasov, Assaf Shocher, Doruk Oner, Gal Chechik, Alexei A Efros, Pascal Fua
- Causal Effect Identification in lvLiNGAM from Higher-Order Cumulants by Daniele Tramontano, Yaroslav Kivva, Saber Salehkaleybar, Negar Kiyavash, Mathias Drton
- Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning with Targeted Causal Interventions by Mohammadsadegh Khorasani, Saber Salehkaleybar, Negar Kiyavash, Matthias Grossglauser
- The dark side of the forces: assessing non-conservative force models for atomistic machine learning by Filippo Bigi, Marcel Langer, Michele Ceriotti; (spotlight)
- Fundamental limits of learning in sequence multi-index models and deep attention networks: high-dimensional asymptotics and sharp thresholds by Emanuele Troiani, Hugo Cui, Yatin Dandi, Florent Krzakala, Lenka Zdeborova
- TAROT: Targeted Data Selection via Optimal Transport by Lan Feng, Fan Nie, Yuejiang Liu, Alexandre Alahi
- Fleet of Agents: Coordinated Problem Solving with Large Language Models by Nearchos Potamitis, Lars Klein, Roland Aydin, Robert West, Caglar Gulcehre, Akhil Arora
- Boosting Protein Graph Representations through Static-Dynamic Fusion by Pengkang Guo, Bruno Correia, Pierre Vandergheynst, Daniel Probst
- Contour Integration Underlies Human-Like Vision by Ben Lonnqvist, Elsa Scialom, Abdulkadir Gokce, Zehra Merchant, Michael Herzog, Martin Schrimpf
- QT-DoG: Quantization-Aware Training for Domain Generalization by Saqib Javed, Hieu Le, Mathieu Salzmann
- Counting in small transformers: The delicate interplay between attention and feed-forward layers by Freya Behrens, Luca Biggio, Lenka Zdeborova
- On-Device Collaborative Language Modeling via a Mixture of Generalists and Specialists by Dongyang Fan, Bettina Messmer, Nikita Doikov, Martin Jaggi
- The Surprising Agreement Between Convex Optimization Theory and Learning-Rate Scheduling for Large Model Training by Fabian Schaipp, Alexander Hägele, Adrien Taylor, Umut Simsekli, Francis Bach
- DeFoG: Discrete Flow Matching for Graph Generation by Yiming Qin, Manuel Madeira, Dorina Thanou, Pascal Frossard; (spotlight)
- Fast inference with Kronecker-sparse matrices by Antoine Gonon, Léon Zheng, Pascal Carrivain, Quoc-Tung Le
- A rescaling-invariant Lipschitz bound based on path-metrics for modern ReLU network parameterizations by Antoine Gonon, Nicolas Brisebarre, Elisa Riccietti, Rémi Gribonval
- Leveraging Sparsity for Sample-Efficient Preference Learning: A Theoretical Perspective by Yunzhen Yao, Lie He, Michael Gastpar
- How compositional generalization and creativity improve as diffusion models are trained by Alessandro Favero, Antonio Sclocchi, Francesco Cagnetta, Pascal Frossard, Matthieu Wyart
- FlexTok: Resampling Images into 1D Token Sequences of Flexible Length by Roman Bachmann, Jesse Allardice, David Mizrahi, Enrico Fini, Oğuzhan Fatih Kar, Elmira Amirloo, Alaaeldin El-Nouby, Amir Zamir, Afshin Dehghan
- MPO: An Efficient Post-Processing Framework for Mixing Diverse Preference Alignment by Tianze Wang, Dongnan Gui, Yifan Hu, Shuhang Lin, Linjun Zhang
- Learning Parametric Distributions from Samples and Preferences by Marc Jourdan, Gizem Yüce, Nicolas Flammarion; (spotlight)
- OOD-Chameleon: Is Algorithm Selection for OOD Generalization Learnable? by Liangze Jiang, Damien Teney
- Learning In-context n-grams with Transformers: Sub-n-grams Are Near-stationary Points by Aditya Varre*, Gizem Yüce*, Nicolas Flammarion
- Scaling Laws for Task-Optimized Models of the Primate Visual Ventral Stream by Abdulkadir Gokce, Martin Schrimpf; (spotlight)
- Simplicity Bias and Optimization Threshold in Two-Layer Networks by Etienne Boursier, Nicolas Flammarion
- The Diffusion Duality by Subham Sekhar Sahoo, Justin Deschenaux, Aaron Gokaslan, Guanghan Wang, Justin T Chiu, Volodymyr Kuleshov
- Analytical Lyapunov Function Discovery: An RL-based Generative Approach by Haohan Zou*, Jie Feng*, Hao Zhao, Yuanyuan Shi
- A New Approach to Backtracking Counterfactual Explanations: A Causal Framework for Efficient Model Interpretability by Pouria Fatemi, Ehsan Sharifian, Mohammad Hossein Yassaee
- Towards Trustworthy Federated Learning with Untrusted Participants by Youssef Allouah, Rachid Guerraoui, John Stephan
- Certified Unlearning for Neural Networks by Anastasia Koloskova*, Youssef Allouah*, Animesh Jha, Rachid Guerraoui, Sanmi Koyejo
- Synthetic Face Datasets Generation via Latent Space Exploration from Brownian Identity Diffusion by David Geissbühler, Hatef Otroshi Shahreza, Sébastien Marcel
- Robust ML Auditing using Prior Knowledge by Jade Garcia Bourrée, Augustin Godinot, Martijn De Vos, Milos Vujasinovic, Sayan Biswas, Gilles Tredan, Erwan Le Merrer, Anne-Marie Kermarrec
*Equal contribution