Chief AI Scientist @cortAIx, Thales in Montreal - Canada. ex-@Accenture, ex-@IBM_Research, ex-@Orange. All views are my own!

Joined January 2010
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I’m happy to share that I am joining the AI leadership team at J.P. Morgan as AI Research (Executive) Director! #Hiring #AI talents in #UK and #USA - Feel free to message me directly. Available positions: but much more in the A…lnkd.in/ekmv6WFE lnkd.in/eq4UJhBD
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5 Aug 2022
A very good paper I came across this morning by the @DeepMind researchers. For the past five years Transformers have been one of the most dominant approaches to Deep Learning problems, especially in the #NLP domain. 1/5
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After 2 years, Practical Deep Learning for Coders v5 is finally ready! 🎊 This is a from-scratch rewrite of our most popular course. It has a focus on interactive explorations, & covers @PyTorch, @huggingface, DeBERTa, ConvNeXt, @Gradio & other goodies 🧵 course.fast.ai/
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🧨Diffusion models have been powering impressive ML apps, enabling DALL-E or Imagen Introducing 🤗 diffusers: a modular toolbox for diffusion techniques, with a focus on: 🚄Inference pipelines ⏰Schedulers 🏭Models 📃Training examples github.com/huggingface/diffu…
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19 Jul 2022
Congrats @h_nilforoshan, @jgaeb1, Ravi and @5harad on winning an outstanding paper award at ICML! #icml2022
Excited and honored to share that our #ICML2022 paper, “Causal Conceptions of Fairness and their Consequences” (w/ @jgaeb1, Ravi Shroff, and @5harad) has received an outstanding paper award!!! See 🧵for key findings and results Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2207.05302 1/17
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🌸 BLOOM is here, available and accessible for everyone. 🤗🤝 Get yourself a huggingface.co account and try it yourself: 👉 huggingface.co/bigscience/bl… At a glance : 🔢 176 billion parameter 🌍 59 languages 🔓 Open-Access or read more about 👉bigscience.huggingface.co/bl…
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Freddy Lecue retweeted
12 Jul 2022
A massive endeavour, hundreds of researchers, more than one year of hard work. From the community, for the community: BLOOM is here! 🌸 176B parameters, 59 languages, open access.
BLOOM is here. The largest open-access multilingual language model ever. Read more about it or get it at bigscience.huggingface.co/bl… hf.co/bigscience/bloom
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8 Jul 2022
Happy to announce that there will be a workshop on Neuro Causal & Symbolic AI (nCSI) at @NeurIPSConf! More information soon. 🖥️ ncsi.cause-lab.net/
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Official YOLOv7 (state-of-the-art real-time detector) is more accurate and faster than: - YOLOv5 by 120% FPS - YOLOX by 180% FPS - Dual-Swin-T by 1200% FPS - ConvNext by 550% FPS - SWIN-L CM-RCNN by 500% FPS - PPYOLOE-X by 150% FPS arxiv.org/abs/2207.02696 github.com/WongKinYiu/yolov7…
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4 Jul 2022
I generated this set of icons in 3D style using DALL-E 2 by @OpenAI. 🤖 (or, did an AI generate this set of icons using text prompts by Charlota?🤔) #dalle2
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The OpenAI Minecraft paper is a great push to getting AI to work in Photoshop, Figma, or any software product — using just the keyboard & mouse, like a person would. Steps in the paper, explained 🧵 1/ openai.com/blog/vpt/
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Wohoo, PyTorch 1.12 is out! Detailed release notes here: github.com/pytorch/pytorch/r…. Interesting (personal top 3) highlights 1) Updated DataPipes -- now with fully working shuffling and sharding (what are DataPipes? See my recent blogpost here: sebastianraschka.com/blog/20…) [1/3]
28 Jun 2022
Announcing PyTorch 1.12: TorchArrow, functorch, accelerated PyTorch training on Mac and more. Take a look: 👇 bit.ly/3OPnDbg
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28 Jun 2022
Video2StyleGAN: Encoding Video in Latent Space for Manipulation abs: arxiv.org/abs/2206.13078
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25 Jun 2022
Statistics and mathematics are the backbones of data science and machine learning Key statistical techniques 👇
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The meeting has been a few years in the making, but it was worth it! Thanks @lexfridman for the fascinating conversation - and the game of chess :) - it was a lot of fun!
23 Jun 2022
I'm visiting DeepMind soon to talk about AI. Should be fun.
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Freddy Lecue retweeted
22 Jun 2022
There's a nice @GoogleAI blog post today by members of the #Imagen and #Parti teams comparing the two approaches. blog.google/technology/resea…

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“Evolution through Large Models” – new paper from our team at OpenAI. Step towards evolutionary algos that continually invent and improve at inventing: Large models can suggest ( improve at making) meaningful mutations to code. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2206.08896 1/4
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16 Jun 2022
OMG I'M SO HAPPY IT'S FINALLY HERE!!!
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