The 23rd Annual Meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club was held from September 28 to October 1, 2026 under the theme ‘Responsibility for the Future: Limits of the Possible, or Limitless Possibilities?’ The forum brought together 120 experts from 40 countries, including representatives of China, the United States, India, Brazil, the United Kingdom, Germany, Egypt, Iran, and Japan.
The HSE International Centre of Decision Choice and Analysis studies a wide range of methods for analysing decision-making and possible scenarios for the development of natural, socio-economic, and political phenomena using various mathematical models. The application of advanced mathematical methods to forecasting helps to prevent negative outcomes and avoid erroneous decisions. The HSE News Service spoke to the centre’s director, Prof. Fuad Aleskerov, about its work.
The International N5 Symposium ‘Neural Networks and Nonlinearity in Nizhny Novgorod’ was held at the Nizhny Novgorod House of Scientists from September 23 to 26. The event was organised by HSE University–Nizhny Novgorod and the Nizhny Novgorod House of Scientists, with the participation of Sberbank and the Institute of Physics Belgrade. The symposium was held for the second time: the first conference took place in 2025 and attracted considerable interest from the academic community.
Bespalov Y., Buzun N., Kachan O. et al., IEEE Access 2022 No. 10 Article 3219934
We propose the first data augmentation method based on optimal transport theory, with the generated data being guaranteed to belong to the original data manifold. The proposed algorithm randomly samples a clique in the nearest-neighbors graph representing the data knowledge and computes the Wasserstein barycenter between the neighbours with random uniform weights. Being extremely natural- ...
Dmitrieva E., Maksim Kaledin, IEEE Signal Processing Letters 2025 Vol. 32 P. 3595–3599
Speech Enhancement techniques have become core technologies in mobile devices and voice software. Still, modern deep learning solutions often require high amount of computational resources what makes their usage on low-resource devices challenging. We present HiFi-Stream, an optimized version of recently published HiFi++ model. Our experiments demonstrate that HiFi-Stream saves most of the qualities of ...
Alanov A., Titov V., Vetrov D., , in: Thirty-Sixth Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems : NeurIPS 2022.: Curran Associates, Inc., 2022. P. 29414–29426.
Domain adaptation framework of GANs has achieved great progress in recent years as a main successful approach of training contemporary GANs in the case of very limited training data. In this work, we significantly improve this framework by proposing an extremely compact parameter space for fine-tuning the generator. We introduce a novel domain-modulation technique that ...