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Hugues Van Assel

4 accepted papers

2025

Ditch the Denoiser: Emergence of Noise Robustness in Self-Supervised Learning from Data Curriculum

NeurIPS 2025poster

Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) has become a powerful solution to extract rich representations from unlabeled data. Yet, SSL research is mostly focused on clean, curated and high-quality datasets. As a result, applying SSL on noisy data remains a challenge, despite being crucial to applications such…

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2025

Joint‑Embedding vs Reconstruction: Provable Benefits of Latent Space Prediction for Self‑Supervised Learning

NeurIPS 2025spotlight

Reconstruction and joint-embedding have emerged as two leading paradigms in Self‑Supervised Learning (SSL). Reconstruction methods focus on recovering the original sample from a different view in input space. On the other hand, joint-embedding methods align the representations of different views in…

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2023

SNEkhorn: Dimension Reduction with Symmetric Entropic Affinities

NeurIPS 2023poster

Many approaches in machine learning rely on a weighted graph to encode the similarities between samples in a dataset. Entropic affinities (EAs), which are notably used in the popular Dimensionality Reduction (DR) algorithm t-SNE, are particular instances of such graphs. To ensure robustness to heter…

2022

A Probabilistic Graph Coupling View of Dimension Reduction

NeurIPS 2022accept

Most popular dimension reduction (DR) methods like t-SNE and UMAP are based on minimizing a cost between input and latent pairwise similarities. Though widely used, these approaches lack clear probabilistic foundations to enable a full understanding of their properties and limitations. To that exten…

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