Distributed Computing
ETH Zurich

Frédéric Berdoz

Frédéric Berdoz

Distributed Computing Group
Computer Engineering and Networks Laboratory (TIK)
Department Electrical Engineering (D-ITET)
Office ETZ G 60.1
ETH Zurich

Gloriastrasse 35
8092 Zurich
Switzerland

phone+41 44 63 27028
fax+41 44 63 21036
email

Publications

Theses & Labs

Current Theses & Labs

TitleTypeContact/SupervisorAssignedStudent(s)
Does the End Justify the Means? Trajectory-Level Evaluation of AI Agent BehaviorMFrédéric BerdozFS 26
LLMs and Political SemanticsSFrédéric BerdozFS 26
Embedding Political OpinionsSFrédéric BerdozHS 25
Recursive ReasoningSFrédéric BerdozHS 25

Past Theses & Labs

TitleTypeContact/SupervisorAssignedStudent(s)
Byte-Level Phoneme Alignment and Prediction with Latent Patch Transformers [confidential]SFrédéric Berdoz,
Luca Lanzendörfer
HS 25
Geometric Iterative Retrieval for Neural Audio Codec Resynthesis [confidential]SLuca Lanzendörfer,
Frédéric Berdoz
HS 25
Can AI Agents Agree? [confidential]BFrédéric BerdozHS 25
Defending Digital Democracy: Mitigating Adversarial Redundancy in Voting Advice Applications using Clone-Robust Weighting [confidential]BDamien Berriaud,
Frédéric Berdoz
HS 25
Subliminal Signals in Preference Labels [confidential]GSamuel Dauncey,
Frédéric Berdoz
HS 25
N-vium: Mixture-of-Exits Transformer for Accelerated Exact Generation [confidential]MFrédéric Berdoz,
Joël Mathys
HS 25
Beyond Deepfake Detection [confidential]BFrédéric Berdoz,
Luca Lanzendörfer
FS 25
Alignment-Aware Decoding [confidential]MLuca Lanzendörfer,
Frédéric Berdoz
FS 25
Data Attribution via Bidirectional Gradient Optimization [confidential]BLuca Lanzendörfer,
Frédéric Berdoz
FS 25
PoliSpace: Representing Political Questions and Opinions in a Shared Embedding Space [confidential]MFrédéric BerdozFS 25
Failing at Basic Visual Perception but Solving Complex Visual Tests? Evaluating Fundamental Visual Perception Skills of VLMs on Synthetic Datasets [confidential]BAndreas Plesner,
Frédéric Berdoz
FS 25
Benchmarking LLM Sampling Strategies [confidential]BFrédéric Berdoz,
Andreas Plesner
FS 25
Ranking Movies with LLMsBLuca Lanzendörfer,
Frédéric Berdoz
FS 25
Simulating Democracy: Technical Feasibility and Policy Perspectives [confidential]MFrédéric Berdoz,
Yann Vonlanthen
FS 25
Steering Pretrained Drafters during Speculative Decoding [confidential]BFrédéric Berdoz,
Benjamin Estermann
FS 25
Text-to-Scene using Large Reasoning Models [confidential]SLuca Lanzendörfer,
Frédéric Berdoz
FS 25
Mixture of Recursion and Experts [confidential]MSamuel Dauncey,
Frédéric Berdoz
FS 25
CAST: Conditional Adaption with Soft Tokens [confidential]MFrédéric BerdozHS 24
Recommender Systems for Politics [confidential]GFrédéric Berdoz,
Yann Vonlanthen
HS 24
Enhanced Volatility Forecasting and Regime Detection for Options Trading Using HAR Models and Spectral Clustering [confidential]MFrédéric Berdoz,
Rudy Delacour
HS 24
Toward Robust Voting Advice Applications: Lessons from Smartvote [confidential]MYann Vonlanthen,
Frédéric Berdoz
FS 24