Maxime Peyrard
@peyrardmax.bsky.social
Junior Professor CNRS (previously EPFL, TU Darmstadt) -- AI Interpretability, causal machine learning, and NLP. Currently visiting @NYU
https://peyrardm.github.io
https://peyrardm.github.io
New preprint: The Dead Salmons of XAI
Standard fMRI pipelines once detected predictive brain regions in a dead salmon! A warning about poor statistical methodology
Now, XAI faces its own issues: many methods can yield plausible explanations even for randomized networks
arxiv.org/abs/2512.18792
Standard fMRI pipelines once detected predictive brain regions in a dead salmon! A warning about poor statistical methodology
Now, XAI faces its own issues: many methods can yield plausible explanations even for randomized networks
arxiv.org/abs/2512.18792
The Dead Salmons of AI Interpretability
In a striking neuroscience study, the authors placed a dead salmon in an MRI scanner and showed it images of humans in social situations. Astonishingly, standard analyses of the time reported brain re...
arxiv.org
January 8, 2026 at 10:58 AM
New preprint: The Dead Salmons of XAI
Standard fMRI pipelines once detected predictive brain regions in a dead salmon! A warning about poor statistical methodology
Now, XAI faces its own issues: many methods can yield plausible explanations even for randomized networks
arxiv.org/abs/2512.18792
Standard fMRI pipelines once detected predictive brain regions in a dead salmon! A warning about poor statistical methodology
Now, XAI faces its own issues: many methods can yield plausible explanations even for randomized networks
arxiv.org/abs/2512.18792
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I'm recruiting multiple PhD students for Fall 2026 in Computer Science at @hopkinsengineer.bsky.social 🍂
Apply to work on AI for social sciences/human behavior, social NLP, and LLMs for real-world applied domains you're passionate about!
Learn more at kristinagligoric.com & help spread the word!
Apply to work on AI for social sciences/human behavior, social NLP, and LLMs for real-world applied domains you're passionate about!
Learn more at kristinagligoric.com & help spread the word!
November 5, 2025 at 2:56 PM
I'm recruiting multiple PhD students for Fall 2026 in Computer Science at @hopkinsengineer.bsky.social 🍂
Apply to work on AI for social sciences/human behavior, social NLP, and LLMs for real-world applied domains you're passionate about!
Learn more at kristinagligoric.com & help spread the word!
Apply to work on AI for social sciences/human behavior, social NLP, and LLMs for real-world applied domains you're passionate about!
Learn more at kristinagligoric.com & help spread the word!
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I'm very happy to present our work "Everything, Everywhere, All at Once: Is Mechanistic Interpretability Identifiable?" this afternoon at #ICLR2025! Come have a chat at stand #439 :)
April 26, 2025 at 2:26 AM
I'm very happy to present our work "Everything, Everywhere, All at Once: Is Mechanistic Interpretability Identifiable?" this afternoon at #ICLR2025! Come have a chat at stand #439 :)
Our paper "Everything, Everywhere, All at Once: Is Mechanistic Interpretability Identifiable?" will be presented at #ICLR2025!
It's also the first paper of my first PhD student, congrats @maximemeloux.bsky.social ! 🎉
blog: melouxm.github.io/MI-identifia...
An explanatory thread 🧵:
It's also the first paper of my first PhD student, congrats @maximemeloux.bsky.social ! 🎉
blog: melouxm.github.io/MI-identifia...
An explanatory thread 🧵:
April 21, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Our paper "Everything, Everywhere, All at Once: Is Mechanistic Interpretability Identifiable?" will be presented at #ICLR2025!
It's also the first paper of my first PhD student, congrats @maximemeloux.bsky.social ! 🎉
blog: melouxm.github.io/MI-identifia...
An explanatory thread 🧵:
It's also the first paper of my first PhD student, congrats @maximemeloux.bsky.social ! 🎉
blog: melouxm.github.io/MI-identifia...
An explanatory thread 🧵:
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An assembly of 18 European companies, labs, and universities have banded together to launch 🇪🇺 EuroBERT!
It's a state-of-the-art multilingual encoder for 15 European languages, designed to be finetuned for retrieval, classification, etc.
Details in 🧵
It's a state-of-the-art multilingual encoder for 15 European languages, designed to be finetuned for retrieval, classification, etc.
Details in 🧵
March 10, 2025 at 9:43 AM
An assembly of 18 European companies, labs, and universities have banded together to launch 🇪🇺 EuroBERT!
It's a state-of-the-art multilingual encoder for 15 European languages, designed to be finetuned for retrieval, classification, etc.
Details in 🧵
It's a state-of-the-art multilingual encoder for 15 European languages, designed to be finetuned for retrieval, classification, etc.
Details in 🧵
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bc i haven't done so yet, i decided to burn any remaining bridge to the land of statistics. it wasn't statisticians nor statistics but it was me. i am simply not good enough to do statistics myself.
so, @peyrardmax.bsky.social and i decided to turn statistical estimation into supervised learning.
so, @peyrardmax.bsky.social and i decided to turn statistical estimation into supervised learning.
February 18, 2025 at 6:12 PM
bc i haven't done so yet, i decided to burn any remaining bridge to the land of statistics. it wasn't statisticians nor statistics but it was me. i am simply not good enough to do statistics myself.
so, @peyrardmax.bsky.social and i decided to turn statistical estimation into supervised learning.
so, @peyrardmax.bsky.social and i decided to turn statistical estimation into supervised learning.
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Check out our new paper on social determinants of on-campus food choice, now out in @pnasnexus.org!
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
December 4, 2024 at 3:30 PM
Check out our new paper on social determinants of on-campus food choice, now out in @pnasnexus.org!
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
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I tried to find everyone who works in the area but I certainly missed some folks so please lmk...
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go.bsky.app/BYkRryU
November 23, 2024 at 5:11 AM
I tried to find everyone who works in the area but I certainly missed some folks so please lmk...
go.bsky.app/BYkRryU
go.bsky.app/BYkRryU