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Frederic Precioso

8 accepted papers

2026

Robust Fine-Tuning from Non-Robust Pretrained Models: Mitigating Suboptimal Transfer With Epsilon-Scheduling

ICLR 2026poster

Fine-tuning pretrained models is a standard and effective workflow in modern machine learning. However, robust fine-tuning (RFT), which aims to simultaneously achieve adaptation to a downstream task and robustness to adversarial examples, remains challenging. Despite the abundance of non-robust pret…

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2025

WolBanking77: Wolof Banking Speech Intent Classification Dataset

NeurIPS 2025poster

Intent classification models have made a significant progress in recent years. However, previous studies primarily focus on high-resource language datasets, which results in a gap for low-resource languages and for regions with high rates of illiteracy, where languages are more spoken than read or w…

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2024

Attention Meets Post-hoc Interpretability: A Mathematical Perspective

ICML 2024poster

Attention-based architectures, in particular transformers, are at the heart of a technological revolution. Interestingly, in addition to helping obtain state-of-the-art results on a wide range of applications, the attention mechanism intrinsically provides meaningful insights on the internal behavio…

2024

Detecting Brittle Decisions for Free: Leveraging Margin Consistency in Deep Robust Classifiers

NeurIPS 2024poster

Despite extensive research on adversarial training strategies to improve robustness, the decisions of even the most robust deep learning models can still be quite sensitive to imperceptible perturbations, creating serious risks when deploying them for high-stakes real-world applications. While detec…

2023

A Sea of Words: An In-Depth Analysis of Anchors for Text Data

AISTATS 2023poster

Anchors (Ribeiro et al., 2018) is a post-hoc, rule-based interpretability method. For text data, it proposes to explain a decision by highlighting a small set of words (an anchor) such that the model to explain has similar outputs when they are present in a document. In this paper, we present the fi…

2023

Interpretable Neural-Symbolic Concept Reasoning

ICML 2023poster

Deep learning methods are highly accurate, yet their opaque decision process prevents them from earning full human trust. Concept-based models aim to address this issue by learning tasks based on a set of human-understandable concepts. However, state-of-the-art concept-based models rely on high-dime…

2022

Concept Embedding Models: Beyond the Accuracy-Explainability Trade-Off

NeurIPS 2022accept

Deploying AI-powered systems requires trustworthy models supporting effective human interactions, going beyond raw prediction accuracy. Concept bottleneck models promote trustworthiness by conditioning classification tasks on an intermediate level of human-like concepts. This enables human intervent…

2022

Generalised Mutual Information for Discriminative Clustering

NeurIPS 2022accept

In the last decade, recent successes in deep clustering majorly involved the mutual information (MI) as an unsupervised objective for training neural networks with increasing regularisations. While the quality of the regularisations have been largely discussed for improvements, little attention has…