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20182026
most citedRandom Matrix Improved Covariance Estimation for a Large Class of Metrics

4 citations · 10 across the 21 of their papers we have counts for

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27 papers

cs.LG2026

A Large-Dimensional Analysis of Least-Squares Federated Learning via Generalized Total Variation Minimization

Ekkehard Schnoor, Malik Tiomoko, Alexander Jung

Federated learning over decentralized networks inherently trades off the suppression of local finite-sample noise through collaboration against the bias that collaboration introduc…

cs.LG2026

Instance-Adaptive Prompts as Context for Time-Series Foundation Models

Zehao Xiao, Shifeng Xie, Lei Zan +5

Longer histories can improve time-series foundation models (TSFMs), but require substantially higher inference cost. We therefore ask whether contextual information can be provided…

cs.AI2026

LLM-Generated Feature Pools for Time Series Anomaly Detection

Youssef Attia El Hili, Malik Tiomoko, Corinne Ancourt

We study how far a simple statistical pipeline can go on univariate time series anomaly detection under a strict selection protocol. The method extracts a small pool of statistics…

cs.LG2026

Tabby: An Open Pretraining Recipe for Time Series Foundation Models

Shifeng Xie, Bahaeddine Abdessalem, Zehao Xiao +9

In this report, we release Tabby, a long context probabilistic time series foundation model, together with a complete and open recipe of how it was built. Tabby adopts an encoder-o…

cs.LG2026

FlowTSFM: Turning Encoder Depth into Quantile Transport

Bahaeddine Abdessalem, Shifeng Xie, Zehao Xiao +6

Encoder-based time series foundation models (TSFMs) typically rely on deep stacks of independently parameterized Transformer layers, where only the final forecast is supervised and…

cs.LG2026

EvoCause: LLM-Guided Evolution of Causal Graphs for Root Cause Analysis

Lei Zan, Keli Zhang, Shifeng Xie +7

Modern telecommunication, cloud, and microservice systems emit correlated alarm cascades when components fail. Root cause analysis (RCA) aims to identify the small set of alarms th…

cs.LG2026

Post-Training in Time Series Foundation Models: A Unifying Framework

Shifeng Xie, Ambroise Odonnat, Zehao Xiao +7

Time series foundation models (TSFMs) have emerged as general-purpose models for time series analysis, but pretraining alone is often insufficient for reliable downstream deploymen…

stat.ML2026

-TCAV: A Unified Framework for Testing with Concept Activation Vectors

Ekkehard Schnoor, Jawher Said, Malik Tiomoko +2

Concept Activation Vectors (CAV) and the Testing with CAVs (TCAV) method are fundamental tools for concept-based explainability in deep learning, yet their practical utility is lim…

stat.ML2026

Characterization of Gaussian Universality Breakdown in High-Dimensional Empirical Risk Minimization

Chiheb Yaakoubi, Cosme Louart, Malik Tiomoko +1

We study high-dimensional convex empirical risk minimization (ERM) under general non-Gaussian data designs. By heuristically extending the Convex Gaussian Min-Max Theorem (CGMT) to…

math.ST2025

Generalization in Representation Models via Random Matrix Theory: Application to Recurrent Networks

Yessin Moakher, Malik Tiomoko, Cosme Louart +1

We first study the generalization error of models that use a fixed feature representation (frozen intermediate layers) followed by a trainable readout layer. This setting encompass…

cs.LG2025

LLMs as In-Context Meta-Learners for Model and Hyperparameter Selection

Youssef Attia El Hili, Albert Thomas, Malik Tiomoko +4

Model and hyperparameter selection are critical but challenging in machine learning, typically requiring expert intuition or expensive automated search. We investigate whether larg…

stat.ML2025

A Random Matrix Perspective of Echo State Networks: From Precise Bias--Variance Characterization to Optimal Regularization

Yessin Moakher, Malik Tiomoko, Cosme Louart +1

We present a rigorous asymptotic analysis of Echo State Networks (ESNs) in a teacher student setting with a linear teacher with oracle weights. Leveraging random matrix theory, we…

stat.ML2025

Concept activation vectors: a unifying view and adversarial attacks

Ekkehard Schnoor, Malik Tiomoko, Jawher Said +2

Concept Activation Vectors (CAVs) are a tool from explainable AI, offering a promising approach for understanding how human-understandable concepts are encoded in a model's latent…

stat.ML2025

Incorporating priors in learning: a random matrix study under a teacher-student framework

Malik Tiomoko, Ekkehard Schnoor

Regularized linear regression is central to machine learning, yet its high-dimensional behavior with informative priors remains poorly understood. We provide the first exact asympt…

cs.SD2025★ 1 cited

Breaking the Barriers of Text-Hungry and Audio-Deficient AI

Hamidou Tembine, Issa Bamia, Massa NDong +31

While global linguistic diversity spans more than 7164 recognized languages, the current dominant architecture of machine intelligence remains fundamentally biased toward written t…

cs.LG2025

Post-Training Corrections for Improved Time-Series Forecasting

Hamza Cherkaoui, Malik Tiomoko, Giuseppe Paolo +4

Time-series forecasting is a critical task in various business domains, but it remains inherently challenging. Typically, large forecasting models are trained in a single, resource…

stat.ML2025

High-Dimensional Analysis of Bootstrap Ensemble Classifiers

Malik Tiomoko, Hamza Cherkaoui, Mohamed El Amine Seddik +3

Bootstrap methods have long been the cornerstone of ensemble learning in machine learning. This paper presents a theoretical analysis of bootstrap techniques applied to the Least S…

cs.LG2025★ 1 cited

Mantis: Lightweight Foundation Model for Time Series Classification

Vasilii Feofanov, Songkang Wen, Shifeng Xie +10

While foundation models have revolutionized various domains, their application to time series classification remains rather under-explored, with existing literature predominantly f…

cs.LG2024

User-friendly Foundation Model Adapters for Multivariate Time Series Classification

Vasilii Feofanov, Romain Ilbert, Malik Tiomoko +2

Foundation models, while highly effective, are often resource-intensive, requiring substantial inference time and memory. This paper addresses the challenge of making these models…

stat.ML2024★ 1 cited

Analysing Multi-Task Regression via Random Matrix Theory with Application to Time Series Forecasting

Romain Ilbert, Malik Tiomoko, Cosme Louart +4

In this paper, we introduce a novel theoretical framework for multi-task regression, applying random matrix theory to provide precise performance estimations, under high-dimensiona…

stat.ML2024

Random matrix theory improved Fréchet mean of symmetric positive definite matrices

Florent Bouchard, Ammar Mian, Malik Tiomoko +2

In this study, we consider the realm of covariance matrices in machine learning, particularly focusing on computing Fréchet means on the manifold of symmetric positive definite mat…

cs.LG2023★ 2 cited

Random Matrix Analysis to Balance between Supervised and Unsupervised Learning under the Low Density Separation Assumption

Vasilii Feofanov, Malik Tiomoko, Aladin Virmaux

We propose a theoretical framework to analyze semi-supervised classification under the low density separation assumption in a high-dimensional regime. In particular, we introduce Q…

stat.ML2021★ 1 cited

PCA-based Multi Task Learning: a Random Matrix Approach

Malik Tiomoko, Romain Couillet, Frédéric Pascal

The article proposes and theoretically analyses a \emph{computationally efficient} multi-task learning (MTL) extension of popular principal component analysis (PCA)-based supervise…

cs.LG2021

Multi-task learning on the edge: cost-efficiency and theoretical optimality

Sami Fakhry, Romain Couillet, Malik Tiomoko

This article proposes a distributed multi-task learning (MTL) algorithm based on supervised principal component analysis (SPCA) which is: (i) theoretically optimal for Gaussian mix…