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MLIA ISIR @mlia-isir.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Congratulation Mathias Vast on successfully defending your PhD, entitled "Improving the Robustness, Efficiency and Effectiveness of Neural Rankers in Information Retrieval" ! 🎉 Farewell, best of luck in your new journey :)

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MLIA ISIR @mlia-isir.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

👋More memories from @ECCV2026 in Malmö A glimpse of Nathaniel Cohen presenting his work: AURA: AUdio-dRiven streaming Avatar by Nathaniel Cohen, Nicolas Dufour, Amélie Royer, Alasdair Newson, Patrick Pérez 🤝 In collaboration with @kyutai-labs.bsky.social Discover more details at: kyutai.org/aura

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MLIA ISIR @mlia-isir.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

🎓👏 We’re proud to announce that Mathias Vast will defend his thesis entitled: "Improving the Robustness, Efficiency and Effectiveness of Neural Rankers in Information Retrieval" 📅Thursday, 24 September ⌚️️10am 📍room 107, block 44-54, 4 Place Jussieu

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MLIA ISIR @mlia-isir.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

MLIA @ ECCV 2026! Last week, MLIA was well represented at the ECCV conference in Malmö, Sweden. Our researchers showcased 4 papers, check them out below!

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Victor Morand @victormorand.eurosky.social · 01/09/2026

🐭 Excited to share MICE (Minimal Interaction Cross-Encoders) - accepted to #EMNLP2026 main ! Cross-encoders are sota for ranking, but often too heavy We ask a simple question: How many operations can be pruned while maintaining effectiveness? 👉 A lot more than you think 🧵

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MLIA ISIR @mlia-isir.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Last week, @victormorand.eurosky.social presented his work as a PhD student at MLIA's weekly seminar! His presentation explored how transformers understand and represent named entities in their intermediate layers, and their implication for neural information retrieval. Thanks, Victor!

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MLIA ISIR @mlia-isir.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

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

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MLIA ISIR @mlia-isir.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

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

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MLIA ISIR @mlia-isir.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

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

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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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MLIA ISIR @mlia-isir.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

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

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MLIA ISIR @mlia-isir.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

🎉 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!

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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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MLIA ISIR @mlia-isir.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

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!

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MLIA ISIR @mlia-isir.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

📢 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 📡

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MLIA ISIR @mlia-isir.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

🎉 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!

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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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MLIA ISIR @mlia-isir.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

🎓️ 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.

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MLIA ISIR @mlia-isir.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

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👏💡

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MLIA ISIR @mlia-isir.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

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.

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MLIA ISIR @mlia-isir.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

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 ⬇️

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MLIA ISIR @mlia-isir.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

🎉 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

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MLIA ISIR @mlia-isir.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

🎓️ 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

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Inria Paris NLP (ALMAnaCH team) @inriaparisnlp.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

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....

ALMAnaCH seminar: Paul Lerner, “Controlling Linguistic Variability in Large Language Models”, 10/04/2026

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MLIA ISIR @mlia-isir.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

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 ⬇️

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MLIA ISIR @mlia-isir.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

🎓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

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MLIA ISIR @mlia-isir.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

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...

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PhD defense - Loïck CHAMBON

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MLIA ISIR @mlia-isir.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

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!

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MLIA ISIR @mlia-isir.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

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

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MLIA ISIR @mlia-isir.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

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! ! 👏

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MLIA ISIR @mlia-isir.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

📢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* ⬇️

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MLIA ISIR @mlia-isir.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

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

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MLIA ISIR @mlia-isir.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

📣 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

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MLIA ISIR @mlia-isir.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

🎉 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 ⬇️

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MLIA ISIR @mlia-isir.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

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!

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MLIA ISIR @mlia-isir.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

🎉 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 ⬇️

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MLIA ISIR @mlia-isir.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

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

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MLIA ISIR @mlia-isir.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

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

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Victor Morand @victormorand.eurosky.social · 22/10/2025

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

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MLIA ISIR @mlia-isir.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Hope your tickets to attend @emnlpmeeting.bsky.social 2025 are booked! 🛫🇨🇳 We are very proud to share that the team will be present this year again, with nothing less than 7 accepted papers! 🎉 📍Suzhou, China 📅Nov 4 - 9th, 2025 Details and papers ⬇️

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MLIA ISIR @mlia-isir.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

🎉 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 ⬇️

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MLIA ISIR @mlia-isir.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

During today's team meeting, Marc Lafon from @lecnam.bsky.social presented his recent paper, accepted at @iccv.bsky.social 🏝️: "Learning vision-language uncertainties for failure prediction" (arxiv.org/abs/2507.07620)

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MLIA ISIR @mlia-isir.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

💫 Accepted paper at @iccv.bsky.social The team is proud to announce that 3 papers were accepted to #ICCV2025! 🥳 📍 Honolulu, Hawaï, USA 🗓️ Oct 19 – 23th, 2025 Looking forward to present our works and discuss about it! 💫 Details and papers ⬇️

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MLIA ISIR @mlia-isir.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Accepted paper at IROS 2025 🥳 🗓️ 19-25th October 2025 📍 Hangzhou, China Zakariae EL ASRI, Ibrahim Laiche, Clément Rambour, Olivier Sigaud, Nicolas Thome "RT-HCP: Dealing with Inference Delays and Sample Efficiency to Learn Directly on Robotic Platforms" ➡️ See the GitHub at github.com/elasriz/RTHCP

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GitHub - elasriz/RTHCP

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MLIA ISIR @mlia-isir.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Holidays are already over (sigh) but team's meetings are back for another year! 🔬 Today, we're listening to Jayneel Parekh, post-doc student under the supervision of @matthieucord.bsky.social , talking about his recent work: "Learning to Steer: Input-dependent Steering for Multimodal LLMs"

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MLIA ISIR @mlia-isir.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

@recsys.bsky.social is happening this week in Prague, Czech Republic, and Ben Kabongo will be there to present his paper, together with Vincent Guigue and Pirmin Lemberger from OnePoint 🚀 ➡️"ELIXIR: Efficient and LIghtweight model for eXplaIning Recommendations" 📆 EARL Workshop

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MLIA ISIR @mlia-isir.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

📸 Some snapshots from the #ACL2025 conference last week! Bravo for the MLIA people! Thanks a lot to all the insightful discussions! Recap' of the team's activities bsky.app/profile/mlia... #NLP #ACL

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MLIA ISIR @mlia-isir.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

📣 Accepted paper at ICML 2025 📣 The team is proud to annonce that 4 papers were accepted at #ICML2025. 📍Vancouver, Canada 🗓️ 13th - 19th July Looking forward to present our works and discuss about it! Papers and schedule following ⬇️

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MLIA ISIR @mlia-isir.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

🎉 PhD defense announcement! Song Duong will defend his PhD "Faithful and Efficient Conditional Text Generation for Data-to-text and Summarization"! 🗓️ Thursday, 10th July at 14:00 📍 Amphithéâtre Herpin, Bâtiment Esclangon, 4 place Jussieu, 75005 Paris. Abstract ⬇️

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MLIA ISIR @mlia-isir.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

🗓️ Back from a 3-months exchange at KTH university in the TMH division, @teoguiguix.bsky.social presents his work during the team meeting of the week!

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MLIA ISIR @mlia-isir.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Accepted long paper at IWSLT 2025! 🥳 📆 31 July-1 August 2025 📍 Vienna, Austria Prompting LLMs: Length Control for Isometric Machine Translation, by Dávid Javorský, Ondřej Bojar, @yvofr.bsky.social, in collaboration with @ufal-cuni.bsky.social .

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MLIA ISIR @mlia-isir.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

The MLIA team will be featured in 6 papers (2 long papers and 4 Findings) at ACL 2025 @aclmeetings.bsky.social this year! 🚀 📆 July 27th-August 1st, 2025 📍 Vienna, Austria Papers in thread:👇

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MLIA ISIR @mlia-isir.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Accepted paper at Workshop WExIR25 - SIGIR 2025 🎉 "Understanding Matching Mechanisms in Cross-Encoders" by Mathias Vast, Basile Van Cooten, Laure Soulier, @bpiwowar.bsky.social This work was conducted in collaboration with Sinequa by ChapsVision! 📍Let's meet in Padova, Italy, on 17th of July 2025!

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