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207 citations · 235 across the 22 of their papers we have counts for

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23 papers

cs.CL2026

Residual Connections and the Causal Shift: Uncovering a Structural Misalignment in Transformers

Jonathan Lys, Vincent Gripon, Bastien Pasdeloup +4

Large Language Models (LLMs) are trained with next-token prediction, implemented in autoregressive Transformers via causal masking for parallelism. This creates a subtle misalignme…

cs.LG2026

Inner Loop Inference for Pretrained Transformers: Unlocking Latent Capabilities Without Training

Jonathan Lys, Vincent Gripon, Bastien Pasdeloup +4

Deep Learning architectures, and in particular Transformers, are conventionally viewed as a composition of layers. These layers are actually often obtained as the sum of two contri…

cs.AI2026

D5P4: Partition Determinantal Point Process for Diversity in Parallel Discrete Diffusion Decoding

Jonathan Lys, Vincent Gripon, Axel Marmoret +4

Discrete diffusion models are promising alternatives to autoregressive approaches for text generation, yet their decoding methods remain under-studied. Standard autoregressive sear…

cs.LG2025

GaLLoP: Gradient-based Sparse Learning on Low-Magnitude Parameters

Anand Choudhary, Yasser Sulaıman, Lukas Mauch +3

Sparse fine-tuning techniques adapt LLMs to downstream tasks by only tuning a sparse subset of model parameters. However, the effectiveness of sparse adaptation depends on optimall…

cs.CV2024

LLM meets Vision-Language Models for Zero-Shot One-Class Classification

Yassir Bendou, Giulia Lioi, Bastien Pasdeloup +4

We consider the problem of zero-shot one-class visual classification, extending traditional one-class classification to scenarios where only the label of the target class is availa…

eess.AS2024

SKILL: Similarity-aware Knowledge distILLation for Speech Self-Supervised Learning

Luca Zampierin, Ghouthi Boukli Hacene, Bac Nguyen +1

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has achieved remarkable success across various speech-processing tasks. To enhance its efficiency, previous works often leverage the use of compressi…

cs.CV2024★ 2 cited

A Novel Benchmark for Few-Shot Semantic Segmentation in the Era of Foundation Models

Reda Bensaid, Vincent Gripon, François Leduc-Primeau +3

Few-shot semantic segmentation (FSS) is a crucial challenge in computer vision, driving extensive research into a diverse range of methods, from advanced meta-learning techniques t…

cs.CV2023

Inferring Latent Class Statistics from Text for Robust Visual Few-Shot Learning

Yassir Bendou, Vincent Gripon, Bastien Pasdeloup +4

In the realm of few-shot learning, foundation models like CLIP have proven effective but exhibit limitations in cross-domain robustness especially in few-shot settings. Recent work…

cs.LG2022

A Statistical Model for Predicting Generalization in Few-Shot Classification

Yassir Bendou, Vincent Gripon, Bastien Pasdeloup +5

The estimation of the generalization error of classifiers often relies on a validation set. Such a set is hardly available in few-shot learning scenarios, a highly disregarded shor…

cs.LG2021★ 207 cited

Quantization and Deployment of Deep Neural Networks on Microcontrollers

Pierre-Emmanuel Novac, Ghouthi Boukli Hacene, Alain Pegatoquet +2

Embedding Artificial Intelligence onto low-power devices is a challenging task that has been partly overcome with recent advances in machine learning and hardware design. Presently…

cs.CV2021

DNN Quantization with Attention

Ghouthi Boukli Hacene, Lukas Mauch, Stefan Uhlich +1

Low-bit quantization of network weights and activations can drastically reduce the memory footprint, complexity, energy consumption and latency of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs). Howe…

cs.LG2021★ 2 cited

Deeplite Neutrino: An End-to-End Framework for Constrained Deep Learning Model Optimization

Anush Sankaran, Olivier Mastropietro, Ehsan Saboori +4

Designing deep learning-based solutions is becoming a race for training deeper models with a greater number of layers. While a large-size deeper model could provide competitive acc…

cs.LG2020

DecisiveNets: Training Deep Associative Memories to Solve Complex Machine Learning Problems

Vincent Gripon, Carlos Lassance, Ghouthi Boukli Hacene

Learning deep representations to solve complex machine learning tasks has become the prominent trend in the past few years. Indeed, Deep Neural Networks are now the golden standard…

cs.LG2020

ThriftyNets : Convolutional Neural Networks with Tiny Parameter Budget

Guillaume Coiffier, Ghouthi Boukli Hacene, Vincent Gripon

Typical deep convolutional architectures present an increasing number of feature maps as we go deeper in the network, whereas spatial resolution of inputs is decreased through down…

cs.LG2020★ 15 cited

BitPruning: Learning Bitlengths for Aggressive and Accurate Quantization

Miloš Nikolić, Ghouthi Boukli Hacene, Ciaran Bannon +5

Neural networks have demonstrably achieved state-of-the art accuracy using low-bitlength integer quantization, yielding both execution time and energy benefits on existing hardware…

cs.LG2019★ 1 cited

Training Modern Deep Neural Networks for Memory-Fault Robustness

Ghouthi Boukli Hacene, François Leduc-Primeau, Amal Ben Soussia +2

Because deep neural networks (DNNs) rely on a large number of parameters and computations, their implementation in energy-constrained systems is challenging. In this paper, we inve…

cs.CV2019

Efficient Hardware Implementation of Incremental Learning and Inference on Chip

Ghouthi Boukli Hacene, Vincent Gripon, Nicolas Farrugia +2

In this paper, we tackle the problem of incrementally learning a classifier, one example at a time, directly on chip. To this end, we propose an efficient hardware implementation o…

cs.LG2019

Deep geometric knowledge distillation with graphs

Carlos Lassance, Myriam Bontonou, Ghouthi Boukli Hacene +3

In most cases deep learning architectures are trained disregarding the amount of operations and energy consumption. However, some applications, like embedded systems, can be resour…

cs.NE2019★ 2 cited

Attention Based Pruning for Shift Networks

Ghouthi Boukli Hacene, Carlos Lassance, Vincent Gripon +2

In many application domains such as computer vision, Convolutional Layers (CLs) are key to the accuracy of deep learning methods. However, it is often required to assemble a large…

cs.LG2019

Introducing Graph Smoothness Loss for Training Deep Learning Architectures

Myriam Bontonou, Carlos Lassance, Ghouthi Boukli Hacene +3

We introduce a novel loss function for training deep learning architectures to perform classification. It consists in minimizing the smoothness of label signals on similarity graph…

cs.LG2018★ 4 cited

Quantized Guided Pruning for Efficient Hardware Implementations of Convolutional Neural Networks

Ghouthi Boukli Hacene, Vincent Gripon, Matthieu Arzel +2

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are state-of-the-art in numerous computer vision tasks such as object classification and detection. However, the large amount of parameters the…

cs.CV2018★ 2 cited

Transfer Incremental Learning using Data Augmentation

Ghouthi Boukli Hacene, Vincent Gripon, Nicolas Farrugia +2

Deep learning-based methods have reached state of the art performances, relying on large quantity of available data and computational power. Such methods still remain highly inappr…

cs.LG2017

Improving Accuracy of Nonparametric Transfer Learning via Vector Segmentation

Vincent Gripon, Ghouthi B. Hacene, Matthias Löwe +1

Transfer learning using deep neural networks as feature extractors has become increasingly popular over the past few years. It allows to obtain state-of-the-art accuracy on dataset…