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As part of its weekly group meeting, MILES is glad to announce three seminars in the upcoming weeks!

• September 30, 2021: In-person seminar by Ruben Ohana (ENS & LightOn) 
  Training neural networks with Direct Feedback Alignment: theory and applications in adversarial robustness
• October 7, 2021: In-person seminar by Laurent Daudet (LightOn)
  Optical random projections: scaling up randomized algorithms for scientific computing and machine learning
• October 14, 2021: Online seminar by Lindon Roberts  (ANU, Australia)
  Inexact Derivative-Free Optimization for Bilevel Learning

Want to give a seminar for our group and beyond? Please send an email at clement.royer@dauphine.psl.eu.

Three papers from MILES researchers have been accepted to the 2021 International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), one of the most prestigious venues for data science:

• Mixed Nash Equilibria in the Adversarial Examples Game co-authored by Laurent Meunier, Rafael Pinot (former MILES member), Jamal Atif and Yann Chevaleyre;
• Mediated uncoupled learning: Learning functions without direct input-output correspondences, co-authored by Ikko Yamane and Florian Yger;
• Best Arm Identification in Graphical Bilinear Bandits, co-authored by Geovani Rizk, Rida Laraki and Yann Chevaleyre.

In addition, Clément Royer will be a featured speaker at the ICML 2021 workshop Beyond first-order methods in ML systems.

Last but certainly not least, Alexandre Vérine will present the paper On the expressivity of bi-Lipschitz normalizing flows (a full MILES collaborative effort together with Benjamin Negrevergne, Fabrice Rossi and Yann Chevaleyre) at the ICML 2021 workshop Invertible Neural Networks, Normalizing Flows, and Explicit Likelihood Models.

Feel free to contact MILES researchers to catch them during ICML!

Rafael Pinot is a recipient of the 2021 Prix Jeune Chercheur (Young Researcher Prize) from the Dauphine Foundation. This prize is awarded every year to the top PhD graduates in Dauphine (see here for a formal description in French).

Rafael defended his PhD thesis on December 12, 2020. He was co-supervised by Jamal Atif and Florian Yger at MILES, as well as Cédric Gouy-Pailler at CEA-LIST. Rafael is now a postdoctoral researcher at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, but we are happy to welcome him back on June 28 as he visits Dauphine to receive his prize. Congratulations!

Congratulations to Virginie Do, Jamal Atif and Jérôme Lang for getting a paper accepted in the 30th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI).

Their paper, Online Selection of Diverse Committees, co-authored with Nicolas Usunier from Facebook AI Research, can be accessed here.

Congrats to Alexandre Araujo for successfully defending his PhD thesis on June 1st, and best of luck to him for the next step of his career!

Clément W. Royer of MILES is one of the new springboard chair researchers at Paris Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (PRAIRIE) You can see the full details about Clément’s project here.

Clément is joining three MILES members who received chair endowments last year:  Tristan Cazenave , Jérôme Lang and Florian Yger. MILES is highly involved in AI research, in Paris and beyond!