Quentin Berthet - 🚅 to EurIPS 2025 🇩🇰
qberthet.bsky.social
Quentin Berthet - 🚅 to EurIPS 2025 🇩🇰
@qberthet.bsky.social
Machine learning
Google DeepMind
Paris
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🚨 New paper on regression and classification!

Adding to the discussion on using least-squares or cross-entropy, regression or classification formulations of supervised problems!

A thread on how to bridge these problems:
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Arrived #NeurIPS2025 ☀️

If you're interested in the interplay of Geometry, Topology, Algebra w/ Neuroscience & AI, I'll give 2 talks on Sunday:

🌐11:30am: The Algebra of Spatial Navigation (Groups & grid cells)

🍩1:30pm: Topological Deep Learning (Complexes & Graphs)

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December 6, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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Viola
December 6th 2025
December 6, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Intersection of topics: super interesting research and one of the best feel-good movies of all time
Really enjoyed this recent interview on my work with the Dodgers and how the @geometric-intel.bsky.social lab prepared me for it! Thank you for having me UCSB⚾️ Check it out here science.ucsb.edu/news/geometr...
December 1, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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In honor of the 39th AI Winter, I’m going to spend the week disentangling the culture and code of reinforcement learning. There may be ranting...
Reformist Reinforcement Learning
What if we just begin and end with policy gradient?
www.argmin.net
December 1, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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Thanks @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social for highlighting our #TIMEBestInvention of the Year award!

tinyurl.com/4939bxu5

This strengthens our commitment to innovating for women's brain health with @ai-ucsb.bsky.social & @bowers-wbhi.bsky.social 🧠
December 1, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Speaking of EurIPS: looking for coffee recommendations in Copenhagen (planning ahead of tomorrow morning)
December 1, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Today is a day about three very cool things: trains, Europe, and ML!

I'm on my way from Paris to Copenhagen, to attend my first EurIPS!

Looking forward to it, reach out if you want to chat!
December 1, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Nice to be at NeurIPS@Paris, and happy that Google DeepMind could support the organizers of this amazing event!
November 25, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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🚨AISTATS workshop proposals open!

Big News: For the first time, there will be a day of workshops at #AISTATS 2026, in Tangier, Morocco 🌴🇲🇦

Quentin Berthet @qberthet.bsky.social and I are workshop chairs.

virtual.aistats.org/Conferences/...
Deadline: Oct 17, AOE
Call for Workshops
virtual.aistats.org
August 29, 2025 at 1:59 PM
I will be attending #ICLR2025 in Singapore and #AISTATS2025 in Mai Khao over the next two weeks.

Looking forward to meeting new people and learning about new things. Feel free to reach out if you want to talk about Google DeepMind.
April 17, 2025 at 12:50 PM
ICML reviews are out
March 25, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Very proud to have contributed to this work, and very happy to have learnt a lot about votes, choices, and agents!
Looking for a principled evaluation method for ranking of *general* agents or models, i.e. that get evaluated across a myriad of different tasks?

I’m delighted to tell you about our new paper, Soft Condorcet Optimization (SCO) for Ranking of General Agents, to be presented at AAMAS 2025! 🧵 1/N
February 24, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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February 21, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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📣 New preprint 📣

Learning Theory for Kernel Bilevel Optimization

w/ @fareselkhoury.bsky.social E. Pauwels @michael-arbel.bsky.social

We provide generalization error bounds for bilevel optimization problems where the inner objective is minimized over a RKHS.

arxiv.org/abs/2502.08457
February 20, 2025 at 1:55 PM
🚨 New paper on regression and classification!

Adding to the discussion on using least-squares or cross-entropy, regression or classification formulations of supervised problems!

A thread on how to bridge these problems:
February 10, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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I've got to say, the guy who accidentally became the Director of the FBI does 100% look like the guy who accidentally becomes the Director of the FBI in a mid-2000s comedy about a guy who accidentally becomes the Director of the FBI
February 5, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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🚀 Policy gradient methods like DeepSeek’s GRPO are great for finetuning LLMs via RLHF.

But what happens when we swap autoregressive generation for discrete diffusion, a rising architecture promising faster & more controllable LLMs?

Introducing SEPO !

📑 arxiv.org/pdf/2502.01384

🧵👇
February 4, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Contrapositives are for cowards. Behold.
January 22, 2025 at 5:58 PM
#AISTATS results are out
January 22, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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Merci @lemonde.fr pour un joli résumé de mes aventures scientifiques et logiciels 📈📠
www.lemonde.fr/sciences/art...

Beaucoup de messages qui me tiennent à cœur : travail d'équipe, logiciel libre, rigueur scientifique

Merci aux collègues et amis qui ont témoigné, je suis ému de lire
Gaël Varoquaux, vedette de l’intelligence artificielle et défenseur du logiciel libre
L’informaticien et chercheur à l’Inria est l’expert français le plus cité dans les publications scientifiques portant sur l’IA. Avec Scikit-learn, un programme de machine learning dont il est le cocré...
www.lemonde.fr
December 15, 2024 at 5:36 AM
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Thrilled to be co-organizing NeurIPS in Paris at @sorbonne-universite.fr next week!

📑 100 papers from NeurIPS 2024. Nearly twice as many as in 2023!
🧑‍🎓 over 300 registered participants
✅ a local and sustainable alternative to flying to Vancouver.

More info: neuripsinparis.github.io/neurips2024p...
4th and 5th of December Sorbonne Center for Artificial Intelligence (SCAI)
neuripsinparis.github.io
November 27, 2024 at 4:09 PM
Claimed solution for the moving sofa problem?

It looks intense, I hope it's correct

arxiv.org/abs/2411.19826
Optimality of Gerver's Sofa
We resolve the moving sofa problem by showing that Gerver's construction with 18 curve sections attains the maximum area $2.2195\cdots$.
arxiv.org
December 2, 2024 at 12:49 PM
AISTATS reviews are out.
November 28, 2024 at 12:22 PM
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A big thanks to my co-authors Christian Borgelt, @tobiassutter.bsky.social @hildekuehne.bsky.social Oliver Deussen and Stefano Ermon.

Also a shout-out to the authors of the methods we build on: @qberthet.bsky.social @mblondel.bsky.social @marcocuturi.bsky.social @bachfrancis.bsky.social ky.social
November 28, 2024 at 1:49 AM