At #SIGIR2026? Come say hi—we'd love to discuss our work! 📅 July 20-24, #SIGIR2026 📅 July 25th, #ICTIR2026 📍 Melbourne, Australia

MLIA ISIR@mlia-isir.bsky.social · 3w ago

Conference moments! Photos of the MLIA team at #SIGIR 2026📸 Check out our accepted papers below 👇

Conference moments! Photos of the MLIA team at #SIGIR 2026📸 Check out our accepted papers below 👇

We are very proud to share that the team was present at ACL: 1. ToMMeR – Efficient Entity Mention Detection from Large Language Models arxiv.org/abs/2510.19410 2. The GDN-CC Dataset: Automatic Corpus Clarification for AI-enhanced Democratic Citizen Consultations arxiv.org/abs/2601.14944

The GDN-CC Dataset: Automatic Corpus Clarification for AI-enhanced Democratic Citizen Consultations

LLMs are ubiquitous in modern NLP, and while their applicability extends to texts produced for democratic activities such as online deliberations or large-scale citizen consultations, ethical question...

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We are very proud to share that the team will be present at ICML this year again! 1. "PRISM: Perception Reasoning Interleaved for Sequential Decision Making". arxiv.org/abs/2605.05407 2. "Improving Zero-Shot Offline RL via Behavioral Task Sampling" arxiv.org/abs/2604.25496

🎉 Accepted at #CVPR2026 as oral in the EgoVis workshop 🎉 📄Action100M: A Large-scale Video Action Dataset 👥 D. Chen, T. Kasarla, Y. Bang, M. Shukor, W, Chung, J. Yu, A. Bolourchi, T. Moutakanni, P. Fung 📍 Denver, USA 📅 4 June 📖 arxiv.org/abs/2601.10592 Come listen to our presentation!

Action100M: A Large-scale Video Action Dataset

Inferring physical actions from visual observations is a fundamental capability for advancing machine intelligence in the physical world. Achieving this requires large-scale, open-vocabulary video act...

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This week we welcomed Arthur Ouaknine, Postdoc at McGill University and Mila, to lead our team meeting. He presented his recent work on “Remote sensing for forest monitoring: Learning to generalize at different scales”. Thanks for the insightful presentation and discussions!

📢 New PhD defense ! 📢 This week, Lise Le Boudec will defend her thesis entitled: "Meshless Neural Solvers and Generative Operators for Parametric PDEs" 📅 Wednesday, June 10 🕒 2:00 PM 📍Amphitheater 45A, 4 place Jussieu, Paris The defense is open to the public and will be broadcasted live 📡

🎉 Accepted at #ICRA2026 🎉 The MLIA team will present: 📄I-FailSense: Towards General Robotic Failure Detection with Vision-Language Models 👥 Clémence Grislain, Hamed Rahimi, Olivier Sigaud, Mohamed Chetouani 📍 Vienna, Austria 📅 June 1–5 📖 arxiv.org/abs/2509.16072 Come say hi at our poster session!

I-FailSense: Towards General Robotic Failure Detection with Vision-Language Models

Language-conditioned robotic manipulation in open-world settings requires not only accurate task execution but also the ability to detect failures for robust deployment in real-world environments. Alt...

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🎓️ PhD defense coming! Armand Kassaï Koupaï will defend his thesis: "Scalable Neural Operators for Parametric PDEs: Adaptive and Generative Methods" on Wed. June 3rd 📅 ⌚️️3pm 📍Amphi Herpin, Bat. ESCLANGON, 4 place Jussieu, Paris The defense will be broadcast live.

We were delighted to welcome Tanise Ceron @taniseceron.bsky.social (MilaNLP, Bocconi University) to lead our team meeting. She shared her latest research on "Political Biases in LLMs: Evidence from Training Data and Model Behavior." Many thanks for the insightful presentation and discussion👏💡

On ISIR Young Scientists Day, Guillaume Jeanneret presented FrescoDiffusion for 4K image‑to‑video generation, and @palequeu.bsky.social presented the GDN‑CC Dataset for improved corpus clarification in democratic consultations, alongside team members showcasing their work in the poster session.

Thrilled to share that our team will be presenting at #LREC2026! 🎉 ✅ 3 papers accepted at #LREC2026 ✅ 1 workshop paper accepted at #BUCC2026 (co-located with LREC) Excited to gather with the community in Palma, Mallorca 🇪🇸 on May 11–16! Let's present our papers ⬇️

🎉 Accepted paper at #ICLR2026 🥳 We are proud to announce that Willy Chung, from our team, is an author of: VL-JEPA: Joint Embedding Predictive Architecture for Vision-language by D. Chen, M. Shukor, T. Moutakanni, W. Chung, L. Yu, T. Kasarla, Y. Bang, A. Bolourchi, Y. LeCun and P. Fung. ⬇️Details

🎓️ We’re thrilled to announce that Lucas SCHOTT will soon defend his PhD thesis! 📖Title: "Diverse and Adaptive Adversarial Training for Robust Reinforcement Learning". 📅Tuesday, 14th April 2026 ⌚️️2pm 📍Amphi Astier, Batiment Esclangon, 4 Place Jussieu, Paris #PhD #RL #PhdDefense #agent

We are very happy to announce our next seminar: Paul Lerner @lernerp.bsky.social (ISIR, Sorbonne Université & CNRS) "Controlling Linguistic Variability in Large Language Models" on Friday 10th April 2026, 11am CET. Details here 👉 almanach.inria.fr/seminars-en....

Accepted papers at EACL 2026 🎉 Several members from the team are in Rabat, Morocco, this week to present their work! Don't hesitate to drop by and have a chat with them 🙋 List in thread ⬇️

🎓Wrapping up March on a high note with the thesis defense of Tanguy Herserant! 📖Title: "Amélioration des métriques d'évaluation pour les méthodes de résumé automatique". 📅Monday, 30th March ⌚️2pm 📍Amphi Herpin, Bat. ESCLANGON

Loïck Chambon is defending his PhD thesis titled "Improving Representations for Autonomous Driving". This PhD was conducted in collaboration with @valeoai.bsky.social. The presentation will start today at 15:15. 🎉 Follow remotely ⬇️ www.youtube.com/live/uFMAHn0...

PhD defense - Loïck CHAMBON

YouTube video by mlia deeplearning

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This week we welcomed Mingmeng Geng @mingmenggeng.bsky.social, Postdoc at @normalesup.bsky.social & @labolattice.bsky.social, to lead our team meeting. He presented his recent work on “Analysis and Detection of LLM-Generated Content”. Thanks for the insightful presentation and discussions!

Today was the "Galette des rois" or Epiphany Cake for the team! A great occasion to meet together for a friendly moment! 👑

First team meeting of 2026 🚀 ✅ Sophia Sirko @ssirko.bsky.social presented her #ICCV2025 paper: "DIP: Unsupervised Dense In-Context Post-training of Visual Representations" Thanks for the insightful presentation! ! 👏

📢Offre de stage de M2, sous la tutelle d'Olivier Schwander: Je cherche un/une stagiaire de M2 informatique ou mathématique (spécialité science des données, apprentissage statistique et intelligence artificielle): *Détection et caractérisation non-supervisée d’arbres à partir d’images aériennes* ⬇️

Congratulations Loïck Chambon, Paul Couairon, Nicolas Thome, Matthieu Cord and the @valeoai.bsky.social team!

valeo.ai@valeoai.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.18452 by Loïck Chambon (loickch.github.io), @paulcouairon.bsky.social, @eloizablocki.bsky.social, @alexandreboulch.bsky.social, @nicolasthome.bsky.social, @matthieucord.bsky.social Collab with @mlia-isir.bsky.social

📣 PhD defense announcement ! 📣 Raphaël Mouravieff will defend his PhD titled "Deep Learning Approaches for Improving Generalization in Table Question-Answering." 📆 Monday, December 1st at 10:00 AM 📍 Room RC27 Atrium, 4 Place Jussieu, 75005 Paris 🖥️ A link will be provided to follow remotely

🎉 Accepted papers at NeurIPS 2025 🎉 The team is proud to announce that several paper were accepted at #NeurIPS25. Looking forward to meet in Paris (25th-26th Nov), Copenhagen or San Diego (1st-7th Dec)! Let's present our papers ⬇️

The team meeting of the week was presented by Alexandre Vérine, from PSL, about "Quality and Diversity in generative models through the lens of f-divergences." Thanks a lot for this interesting talk!

🎉 PhD defense announcement! Florian Le Bronnec will defend his PhD titled "Reliability of Generative Language Models: Efficiency, Faithfulness, and Coverage"! 👨‍🎓 🗓️When? Wed, November 26th, 14:00 📍Where? Amyot Amphitheater, PSL, 3 Rue Amyot, Paris. Looking forward to seeing you there! Abstract ⬇️

The defense is about to start! Follow online: ➡️ www.youtube.com/live/dXiYvUg...

MLIA ISIR@mlia-isir.bsky.social · 10mo ago

🎉 PhD defense announcement! @paulcouairon.bsky.social will defend his PhD titled "Structured Visual Representations with Foundation Models"! 🗓️When? Thursday, 4th November at 14:00 📍Where? Room 304 65/66, campus Pierre et Marie Curie, Sorbonne Université (4 place Jussieu, 75005 Paris). Abstract ⬇️

🗒️ Yesterday, Ben Kabongo led the team meeting with his presentation "MemRec: Memory Network for Explainable Recommendation". Thanks for the interesting talk!

New paper at @blackboxnlp.bsky.social @ @emnlpmeeting.bsky.social ! ⚛️ Entities are the fundamental building blocks of knowledge. Although some clues emerge from mechanistic interpretability, how auto-regressive LLMs actually encode and retrieve them remains a mystery. 🧵 📄 arxiv.org/abs/2510.09421