Álvarez González, Francisco Nurudín (Date of defense: 2024-03-20)
Representation learning is the field of modern machine learning focused on automatically producing useful representations from data. This thesis studies the impact of data volumes, annotation perspectives, ...
Alenyà Sistané, Mireia (Date of defense: 2024-02-19)
This dissertation presents a novel computational pipeline for creating patient-specific models of brain development. Initially, the human brain develops from a smooth to a convoluted cortical surface, ...
Drew, Alice (Date of defense: 2024-02-01)
Our everyday perception of the world is remarkably unambiguous, considering that it stems from a multitude of ambiguous sensory signals. This feat is believed to be achieved by a set of perceptual ...
Gutiérrez Páez, Nicolás Felipe (Date of defense: 2022-06-22)
The success of an online community depends on the contributions and actions performed by the community members. This dissertation aims to understand the dynamics of participation in regulated, not-for-profit, ...
Morales Ferez, Xabier (Date of defense: 2024-04-26)
Although the left ventricle has traditionally held the spotlight as the primary determinant of cardiovascular disease prognosis, the characterization of left atrial hemodynamics is increasingly ...
Dessí, Roberto (Date of defense: 2024-04-12)
Recent advances in language modeling led to remarkable performance in many NLP applications. However, the static and passive learning imposed by the nexttoken- prediction objective makes models suboptimal ...
Nizzero, Maria (Date of defense: 2024-02-22)
In the twentieth century, violent non-state actors (VNSAs) have emerged as significant contenders to states. These entities thrive in areas of low (or non-existent) formal state control and engage in ...
Gabbianelli, Germano (Date of defense: 2024-03-07)
Reinforcement Learning (RL), a subfield of machine learning and artifical intelligence, is a learning paradigm where an artificial agent learns to reach a predefined goal by trying to maximize a reward ...
Ptashkina, Maria (Date of defense: 2023-06-27)
This dissertation consists of two chapters studying trade agreements. The first chapter estimates the effects of preferential trade agreements on bilateral trade between their signatories. A novel ...
Moreno Ruiz, Nerea (Date of defense: 2024-06-25)
Rare disorders have been presumed to be caused by monogenic variation for decades, hindering the diagnosis in some cases. With many rare disease patients still missing a molecular diagnosis after genetic ...