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Francisco Eiras

8 accepted papers

2025

Do as I do (Safely): Mitigating Task-Specific Fine-tuning Risks in Large Language Models

ICLR 2025poster

Recent research shows that fine-tuning on benign instruction-following data can inadvertently undo the safety alignment process and increase a model's propensity to comply with harmful queries. While instruction-following fine-tuning is important, task-specific fine-tuning-where models are trained o…

Cited by 1SourcePDFScholar
2024

Efficient Error Certification for Physics-Informed Neural Networks

ICML 2024poster

Recent work provides promising evidence that Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINN) can efficiently solve partial differential equations (PDE). However, previous works have failed to provide guarantees on the *worst-case* residual error of a PINN across the spatio-temporal domain - a measure akin t…

Cited by 3SourcePDFScholar
2024

Position: Near to Mid-term Risks and Opportunities of Open-Source Generative AI

ICML 2024oral

In the next few years, applications of Generative AI are expected to revolutionize a number of different areas, ranging from science & medicine to education. The potential for these seismic changes has triggered a lively debate about potential risks and resulted in calls for tighter regulation, in p…

Cited by 9SourcePDFScholar
2023

Certifying Ensembles: A General Certification Theory with S-Lipschitzness

ICML 2023poster

Improving and guaranteeing the robustness of deep learning models has been a topic of intense research. Ensembling, which combines several classifiers to provide a better model, has been shown to be beneficial for generalisation, uncertainty estimation, calibration, and mitigating the effects of con…

Cited by 2SourcePDFScholar
2021

Interpretable Goal Recognition in the Presence of Occluded Factors for Autonomous Vehicles

IROS 2021poster

Recognising the goals or intentions of observed vehicles is a key step towards predicting the long-term future behaviour of other agents in an autonomous driving scenario. When there are unseen obstacles or occluded vehicles in a scenario, goal recognition may be confounded by the effects of these u…

Cited by 30SourceScholar
2021

Interpretable Goal-based Prediction and Planning for Autonomous Driving

ICRA 2021poster

We propose an integrated prediction and planning system for autonomous driving which uses rational inverse planning to recognise the goals of other vehicles. Goal recognition informs a Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) algorithm to plan optimal maneuvers for the ego vehicle. Inverse planning and MCTS u…

Cited by 79SourceScholar
2021

PILOT: Efficient Planning by Imitation Learning and Optimisation for Safe Autonomous Driving

IROS 2021poster

Achieving a proper balance between planning quality, safety and efficiency is a major challenge for autonomous driving. Optimisation-based motion planners are capable of producing safe, smooth and comfortable plans, but often at the cost of runtime efficiency. On the other hand, naïvely deploying tr…

Cited by 31SourceScholar
2018

Analytical Modeling of Vanishing Points and Curves in Catadioptric Cameras

CVPR 2018poster

Vanishing points and vanishing lines are classical geometrical concepts in perspective cameras that have a lineage dating back to 3 centuries. A vanishing point is a point on the image space where parallel lines in 3D space appear to converge, whereas a vanishing line passes through 2 or more vanish…

Cited by 9SourcePDFScholar