Flavio Martinelli
EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland (CH)

Rare pic of me well dressed
I am a PhD student in the Laboratory of Computational Neuroscience at EPFL, supervised by Wulfram Gerstner and Johanni Brea.
My main research revolves around understanding weight structures in neural networks.
I apply this knowledge on the following topics:
🕵️ Identifiability: can network parameters be reverse engineered? What types of constraints are needed? What are the implications for neural circuits?
🏋️ Trainability: what weight structures are easier or harder to learn? What are the weight structures of sub-optimal solutions (local minima)?
💡 Interpretability: understanding network symmetries to improve manipulation and interpretation of network models.
news
Mar 01, 2025 | 🌎 I am currently based in Boston for a 4 months visit in Kanaka Rajan’s lab. Reach out if you want to have a chat! |
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Sep 02, 2024 | I gave a talk on Expand-and-Cluster for the EfficientML reading group – link to video. |
Jul 21, 2024 | In Vienna for ICML ‘24 and a visit to Tim Vogel’s lab in IST, Austria. |
May 20, 2024 | In Trieste for the Youth in High Dimensions meeting. |
May 02, 2024 | 📝 Expand-and-Cluster is accepted to ICML 2024! 🔍 We identify the weights of a neural network from simple input-output queries. ⚠️ Symmetries and overparameterised loss landscapes are heavily involved. |
Feb 08, 2024 | Gave a talk and visited the laboratory of Jakob Macke at the Tübingen AI Center, Germany. |
Jan 31, 2024 | Gave a talk at the annual Swiss Computational Neuroscience meeting. |
Sep 26, 2023 | In Berlin for a poster at the Bernstein conference. |