CEMSE Weekly Updates - November 18, 2025

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Robust Locomotion of Legged Robots with Closed-Loop Guarantees

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B9 L2 R2325

This talk presents a predictive control framework allowing general legged robots to walk robustly, and describes its validation results on both humanoids and quadrupeds.

KAUST Workshop on Distributed Training in the Era of Large Models

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Auditorium between B4 & 5, L0, R0215

Join leading researchers and innovators to explore how distributed training is reshaping the next generation of large-scale AI models.

Training Neural Networks at Any Scale

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B9 L2 R2325

The talk explores a key mathematical ingredient of scaling in tandem with scaling theory: the numerical solution algorithms commonly employed in deep learning, spanning domains from vision to language models.

Trustworthy Learning for Multichannel Biosignals: Calibrated Uncertainty, Long-Range State-Space Modeling, and Inverse-Rate Regularization

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This thesis advances electrophysiological signal analysis by delivering calibrated probabilities, efficient long-range multichannel modeling, and near-optimal regularization, establishing a practical, principled framework for trustworthy biosignal understanding.

Balancing Accuracy and Efficiency: Compact Representations for Flow and Multivariate Visualization

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B3 L5 R5220

This thesis addresses the challenge of interactively visualizing massive scientific datasets by introducing novel frameworks that strategically balance accuracy and efficiency for scalable multivariate filtering, objective time-dependent flow analysis, and hybrid, complexity-guided flow reconstruction.

Finite Element Approximation of Eigenvalue Problems in Mixed Form

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B9 L2 R2325

This talk will discuss the finite element approximation of the eigenvalues associated with the Maxwell system.