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most citedOptimal Transport as a Defense Against Adversarial Attacks

8 citations · 15 across the 18 of their papers we have counts for

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19 papers

cs.CV2026

BifDet: A 3D Bifurcation Detection Dataset for Airway-Tree Modeling

Ali Keshavarzi, Quentin Bouniot, Benjamin M. Smith +1

Thoracic Computed Tomography (CT) scans offer detailed insights into the intricate branching network of the airway tree, which is essential for understanding various respiratory di…

cs.CV2026

UNBOX: Unveiling Black-box visual models with Natural-language

Simone Carnemolla, Chiara Russo, Simone Palazzo +5

Ensuring trustworthiness in open-world visual recognition requires models that are interpretable, fair, and robust to distribution shifts. Yet modern vision systems are increasingl…

cs.CV2026

Rethinking Concept Bottleneck Models: From Pitfalls to Solutions

Merve Tapli, Quentin Bouniot, Wolfgang Stammer +2

Concept Bottleneck Models (CBMs) ground predictions in human-understandable concepts but face fundamental limitations: the absence of a metric to pre-evaluate concept relevance, th…

cs.LG2026

The Latent Color Subspace: Emergent Order in High-Dimensional Chaos

Mateusz Pach, Jessica Bader, Quentin Bouniot +2

Text-to-image generation models have advanced rapidly, yet achieving fine-grained control over generated images remains difficult, largely due to limited understanding of how seman…

cs.LG2026

SOTAlign: Semi-Supervised Alignment of Unimodal Vision and Language Models via Optimal Transport

Simon Roschmann, Paul Krzakala, Sonia Mazelet +2

The Platonic Representation Hypothesis posits that neural networks trained on different modalities converge toward a shared statistical model of the world. Recent work exploits thi…

cs.CL2026

Dissecting Multimodal In-Context Learning: Modality Asymmetries and Circuit Dynamics in modern Transformers

Yiran Huang, Karsten Roth, Quentin Bouniot +2

Transformer-based multimodal large language models often exhibit in-context learning (ICL) abilities. Motivated by this phenomenon, we ask: how do transformers learn to associate i…

cs.LG2026

TimeSAE: Causal Sparse Decoding for Faithful Explanations of Black-Box Time Series Models

Khalid Oublal, Quentin Bouniot, Qi Gan +2

As black box models and pretrained models gain traction in time series applications, understanding and explaining their predictions becomes increasingly vital, especially in high-s…

cs.LG2025

Unlocking Pretrained Vision Transformers for Time Series Classification

Simon Roschmann, Quentin Bouniot, Vasilii Feofanov +2

Adapting vision models for time series analysis is compelling, yet all existing approaches are falling short of dedicated time series foundation models (TSFMs) in classification. I…

cs.CV2025

Sparse Autoencoders Learn Monosemantic Features in Vision-Language Models

Mateusz Pach, Shyamgopal Karthik, Quentin Bouniot +2

Sparse Autoencoders (SAEs) have recently gained attention as a means to improve the interpretability and steerability of Large Language Models (LLMs), both of which are essential f…

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.CV2024

Restyling Unsupervised Concept Based Interpretable Networks with Generative Models

Jayneel Parekh, Quentin Bouniot, Pavlo Mozharovskyi +2

Developing inherently interpretable models for prediction has gained prominence in recent years. A subclass of these models, wherein the interpretable network relies on learning hi…

cs.CV2023

Towards Few-Annotation Learning in Computer Vision: Application to Image Classification and Object Detection tasks

Quentin Bouniot

In this thesis, we develop theoretical, algorithmic and experimental contributions for Machine Learning with limited labels, and more specifically for the tasks of Image Classifica…

cs.LG2023

Tailoring Mixup to Data for Calibration

Quentin Bouniot, Pavlo Mozharovskyi, Florence d'Alché-Buc

Among all data augmentation techniques proposed so far, linear interpolation of training samples, also called Mixup, has found to be effective for a large panel of applications. Al…

cs.CV2023★ 5 cited

Towards Few-Annotation Learning for Object Detection: Are Transformer-based Models More Efficient ?

Quentin Bouniot, Angélique Loesch, Romaric Audigier +1

For specialized and dense downstream tasks such as object detection, labeling data requires expertise and can be very expensive, making few-shot and semi-supervised models much mor…

cs.CV2023

Proposal-Contrastive Pretraining for Object Detection from Fewer Data

Quentin Bouniot, Romaric Audigier, Angélique Loesch +1

The use of pretrained deep neural networks represents an attractive way to achieve strong results with few data available. When specialized in dense problems such as object detecti…

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

From Alexnet to Transformers: Measuring the Non-linearity of Deep Neural Networks with Affine Optimal Transport

Quentin Bouniot, Ievgen Redko, Anton Mallasto +6

In the last decade, we have witnessed the introduction of several novel deep neural network (DNN) architectures exhibiting ever-increasing performance across diverse tasks. Explain…

cs.CV2023

The Robust Semantic Segmentation UNCV2023 Challenge Results

Xuanlong Yu, Yi Zuo, Zitao Wang +34

This paper outlines the winning solutions employed in addressing the MUAD uncertainty quantification challenge held at ICCV 2023. The challenge was centered around semantic segment…

cs.LG2021★ 8 cited

Optimal Transport as a Defense Against Adversarial Attacks

Quentin Bouniot, Romaric Audigier, Angélique Loesch

Deep learning classifiers are now known to have flaws in the representations of their class. Adversarial attacks can find a human-imperceptible perturbation for a given image that…

cs.LG2020

Improving Few-Shot Learning through Multi-task Representation Learning Theory

Quentin Bouniot, Ievgen Redko, Romaric Audigier +2

In this paper, we consider the framework of multi-task representation (MTR) learning where the goal is to use source tasks to learn a representation that reduces the sample complex…