Machine Learning in Montpellier, Theory & Practice

ML-MTP is a series of seminars aiming to federate the Machine Learning community around Montpellier, hosting talks from local researchers as well as national and international experts.

Upcoming talks

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18 Juin 2026

The distribution of calibrated likelihood functions on the probability-likelihood simplex

Inria Montpellier, St-Priest Campus, Building 2, Room 167

Paul-Gauthier Noé LIS – CNRS/ Aix Marseille Université

While calibration of probabilistic predictions has been widely studied, we will rather discuss calibration of likelihood functions. This has been studied, especially in biometrics, in cases with only two exhaustive and mutually exclusive hypotheses (or classes): where likelihood functions can be written as log-likelihood-ratios (LLRs). After defining calibration for LLRs and its connection with the concept of weight-of-evidence, I will present the idempotence property and its associated constraint on the distribution of the LLRs. Although these results have been known for decades, they have been limited to the binary case. In this talk, we will see how the Aitchison geometry of the simplex allows us to extend these results to cases with more than two hypotheses. To be more precise, it recovers, in a vector form, the additive form of the Bayes’ rule; extending therefore the LLR and the weight-of-evidence to any number of hypotheses. Especially, we will extend the definition of calibration, the idempotence, and the constraint on the distribution of likelihood functions to this multiple hypotheses and multiclass counterpart of the LLR: the isometric-log-ratio transformed likelihood function. Even if this work is mainly conceptual, we will discuss one application to machine learning by presenting a non-linear discriminant analysis where the discriminant components form a calibrated likelihood function over the classes, improving therefore the interpretability and the reliability of the method.

Past talks

13
Nov
2025

23
Oct
2025

09
Oct
2025

02
Oct
2025

03
Juil
2025

Towards a Universal Representation of Earth Observation

3 juillet 2025
14 h 00 min
Room 02.124 Building 5

03
Juil
2025

Simulating Environment-Conditioned Seabird Trajectories with Generative AI

3 juillet 2025
14 h 00 min
Room 02.124 Building 5

24
Juin
2025

Generative diffusions and minimax estimation

24 juin 2025
14 h 00 min
Room 02.124 Building 5

19
Juin
2025

12
Juin
2025

When to Forget? Complexity Trade-offs in Machine Unlearning

12 juin 2025
14 h 00 min
Room 02.124 Building 5

10
Juin
2025

Principal score methods for survival data

10 juin 2025
14 h 00 min
En ligne

16
Mai
2025

Unified Breakdown Analysis for Byzantine Robust Gossip

16 mai 2025
14 h 00 min
Room 02.249 Building 5

05
Mai
2025

Treatment Allocation under Uncertain Costs

5 mai 2025
14 h 00 min
En ligne

10
Avr
2025

07
Avr
2025

TBD

7 avril 2025
14 h 00 min
En ligne

04
Avr
2025

Optimal Classification under Performative Distribution Shift

4 avril 2025
14 h 00 min
Room 02.124 Building 5

03
Avr
2025

On Volume Minimization in Conformal Regression

3 avril 2025
14 h 00 min
Room 02.124 Building 5

01
Avr
2025

31
Mar
2025

Optimal treatment rules for the net benefit of a treatment

31 mars 2025
14 h 00 min
Room 02.124 Building 5

28
Mar
2025

Learning structural biology

28 mars 2025
14 h 00 min
Room 02.124 Building 5

26
Mar
2025

Explainable and Interpretable Learning: Making Sense on Complex Modeling Domains

26 mars 2025
14 h 00 min
Room Nadir, Maison de la Télédétection

13
Mar
2025

13
Mar
2025

TBD

13 mars 2025
14 h 00 min
En ligne

06
Mar
2025

How Should We Construct Prediction Sets? Insights from Conformal Prediction

6 mars 2025
14 h 00 min
Room 02.022, Building 5

17
Fév
2025

Rethinking Early Stopping: Refine, Then Calibrate

17 février 2025
14 h 00 min
Room 02.022, Building 5

10
Fév
2025

Bilevel optimization for machine learning

10 février 2025
14 h 00 min
Room 02.124 Building 5

23
Jan
2025

Schur's Positive-Definite Network: Deep Learning in the SPD cone with structure

23 janvier 2025
14 h 00 min
Room 02.124 Building 5

13
Déc
2024

Making Old Things New: A Unified Algorithm for Differentially Private Clustering

13 décembre 2024
14 h 00 min
Room 02.124 Building 5

12
Déc
2024

Multi task averaging in high dimension

12 décembre 2024
14 h 00 min
Room 02.124 Building 5

09
Déc
2024

Avoiding Pitfalls for Privacy Accounting of DP-SGD

9 décembre 2024
14 h 00 min
Room 02.124 Building 5

02
Déc
2024

Privacy Auditing of DP-SGD in the Hidden State Threat Model

2 décembre 2024
14 h 00 min
Room 02.124 Building 5

21
Nov
2024

Evaluating Probabilistic Classifiers: The triptych

21 novembre 2024
14 h 00 min
En ligne

19
Nov
2024

Introduction to Differentially Private Machine Learning

19 novembre 2024
14 h 00 min
Room 02.022, Building 5

18
Nov
2024

14
Nov
2024

21
Oct
2024

17
Oct
2024

Some Challenges Around Retraining Generative Models on their Own Data

17 octobre 2024
14 h 00 min
Room 02.124 Building 5

01
Oct
2024

19
Sep
2024

17
Sep
2024

16
Sep
2024

ML for Earth Observation (team seminar, several speakers)

16 septembre 2024
14 h 00 min
Room Saltus, Maison de la Télédétection

12
Sep
2024

Label ambiguity in crowdsourcing for classification and expert feedback

12 septembre 2024
14 h 00 min
Room 02.124 Building 5

10
Sep
2024

Over-parameterisation and Overfitting: Myths, Theories and Tools

10 septembre 2024
14 h 00 min
Saint Priest Campus – Building 5 – Room 02.124

10
Sep
2024

Combining multiple imputation and propensity score matching in practice

10 septembre 2024
0 h 00 min - 23 h 59 min
Saint Priest Campus – Building 5 – Room 02.124

05
Sep
2024

Sparsistency for Inverse Optimal Transport

5 septembre 2024
14 h 00 min
Saint Priest Campus – Building 5 – Room 02.124

27
Juin
2024

A small tutorial on adversarial examples

27 juin 2024
14 h 00 min
Saint Priest Campus – Building 5 – Room 02.022

13
Juin
2024

The Procrustes-Wasserstein problem: aligning embeddings and geometric graphs

13 juin 2024
14 h 00 min
Saint Priest Campus – Building 5 – Room 03.124

23
Mai
2024

Probabilistic graphical models and deep neural networks for remote sensing image analysis

23 mai 2024
14 h 00 min
Saint Priest Campus – Building 5 – Room 02.124

21
Mai
2024

Multiply robust off-policy evaluation and learning under truncation by death

21 mai 2024
14 h 00 min
Saint Priest Campus – Building 5 – Room 01.124

16
Mai
2024

No Bluffing: Proving ML Model Trustworthiness

16 mai 2024
14 h 00 min
Saint Priest Campus – Building 5 – Room 02.124

02
Mai
2024

Active Clustering with bandit feedback

2 mai 2024
14 h 00 min
Triolet Campus- IMAG – Room 109

29
Avr
2024

Interpretable machine learning models for predicting with missing values

29 avril 2024
14 h 00 min
Saint Priest Campus – Building 5 – Room 02.124

25
Avr
2024

Gaussian processes with applications in statistical learning and machine learning

25 avril 2024
14 h 00 min
Triolet Campus- IMAG – Room 109

22
Avr
2024

DoubleMLDeep: Estimation of Causal Effects with Multimodal Data

22 avril 2024
14 h 00 min
Saint Priest Campus – Building 5 – Room 01.124

11
Avr
2024

Multitask Online Learning: Listen to the Neighbourhood Buzz

11 avril 2024
14 h 00 min
Triolet Campus- IMAG – Room 109

02
Avr
2024

Runtime Monitoring of Deep Neural Networks

2 avril 2024
14 h 00 min
Saint Priest Campus – Building 5 – Room 02.124

21
Mar
2024

Deep learning under Lipschitz constraints

21 mars 2024
14 h 00 min
St Priest campus – Building 5 – Room 03.124

21
Mar
2024

Adapting Newton's Method to Neural Networks through a Summary of Higher-Order Derivatives

21 mars 2024
14 h 00 min
Triolet Campus- IMAG – Room 109

18
Mar
2024

Federated Conformal Prediction: Marginal and Training-Conditional Validity

18 mars 2024
14 h 00 min
Campus Saint Priest – Batiment 5 – Salle 01.124

11
Mar
2024

Imputation under Missing at Random: How to Impute and How to Evaluate Imputation Methods

11 mars 2024
14 h 00 min
Campus Saint Priest – Batiment 5 – Salle 02.249

07
Mar
2024

Sampling through optimization of discrepancies

7 mars 2024
14 h 00 min
Saint Priest Campus – Building 5 – Room 02.022

29
Fév
2024

Differentially Private Coordinate Descent Methods

29 février 2024
14 h 00 min
Triolet Campus- IMAG – Room 109

26
Fév
2024

Introduction to Federated Learning

26 février 2024
14 h 00 min
Saint Priest Campus, Building 5, Room 02.022

12
Déc
2023

Machine Learning in Untrusted Environment

12 décembre 2023
14 h 00 min
Saint Priest Campus – Building 5 – Room 02.124

04
Déc
2023

Multi-armed bandits with guaranteed revenue per arm

4 décembre 2023
14 h 00 min
Saint Priest Campus – Building 5 – Room 02.124

30
Nov
2023

Phytosociology meets artificial intelligence: accurate habitat type prediction based on deep learning

30 novembre 2023
14 h 00 min
Saint Eloi Campus, Building 9, Room 109

21
Nov
2023

AI for sustainability: Challenges and opportunities

21 novembre 2023
14 h 00 min
Maison de la Télédétectio, Room Zenith

09
Nov
2023

Sparse Graphical Linear Dynamical Systems

9 novembre 2023
14 h 00 min
Saint Priest Campus, Building 5

28
Sep
2023

Spotting Expressivity Bottlenecks and Fixing Them Optimally

28 septembre 2023
14 h 00 min
Saint Priest Campus, Camelot Workshop

28
Sep
2023

Relationship between sample size and architecture for the estimation of Sobolev functions using deep neural networks

28 septembre 2023
14 h 00 min - 17 h 30 min
Saint Priest Campus, Camelot Workshop

28
Sep
2023

Leveraging knowledge to design machine learning despite the lack of data

28 septembre 2023
14 h 00 min - 17 h 30 min
Saint Priest Campus, Camelot Workshop

28
Sep
2023

Learning with reject option and application to low energy consumption

28 septembre 2023
14 h 00 min - 17 h 30 min
Saint Priest Campus, Camelot Workshop

15
Sep
2023

How Deep learning can facilitate the extraction of information from remote sensing data

15 septembre 2023
14 h 00 min
Maison de la Télédétection

15
Sep
2023

Sparse Linear Concept Discovery Models

15 septembre 2023
9 h 30 min - 12 h 15 min
Maison de la Télédétection

15
Sep
2023

PDiscoNet: Semantically consistent part discovery for fine-grained recognition

15 septembre 2023
9 h 30 min - 12 h 15 min
Maison de la Télédétection

15
Sep
2023

Masking Strategies for Background Bias Removal in Computer Vision Models

15 septembre 2023
9 h 30 min - 12 h 15 min
Maison de la Télédétection

14
Sep
2023

Computation of Distribution-free Prediction Sets

14 septembre 2023
14 h 00 min
Saint Eloi Campus, Building 9, Room 109

15
Juin
2023

Multi-scale image analysis for plant phenotyping

15 juin 2023
14 h 00 min
Saint Eloi Campus, Building 9, Room 109

08
Juin
2023

Hybrid AI (co-hosted with the ISDM-Numev workshop)

8 juin 2023
14 h 00 min
Saint Eloi Campus, Building 9, Room 109

01
Juin
2023

Knowledge Transfer and Representation Learning in Remote Sensing through Self-Supervised Methods

1 juin 2023
14 h 00 min
Saint Eloi Campus, Building 9, Room 109

25
Mai
2023

Integrate heterogeneous opportunistic observations to reconstruct invasion spatial dynamics

25 mai 2023
14 h 00 min
Saint Eloi Campus, Building 9, Room 109

27
Avr
2023

Distributional Random Forests

27 avril 2023
14 h 00 min
Saint Eloi Campus, Building 9, Room 109

20
Avr
2023

Stochastic Local Winner-Takes-All Networks

20 avril 2023
14 h 00 min
Saint Eloi Campus, Building 9, Room 109

30
Mar
2023

Active learning from crowds

30 mars 2023
14 h 00 min
Saint Eloi Campus, Building 9, Room 109

23
Mar
2023

Pl@ntnet under the hood

23 mars 2023
14 h 00 min
Saint Eloi Campus, Building 9, Room 109

16
Mar
2023

The Plant Game: crowdsourcing thousands of observations with thousands of labels

16 mars 2023
14 h 00 min
Saint Eloi Campus, Building 9, Room 109

23
Fév
2023

Crowd-sourcing: comparison between statistical models and theoretical guarantees

23 février 2023
14 h 00 min
Saint Eloi Campus, Building 9, Room 109

16
Fév
2023

Learning from crowds: going beyond aggregation schemes

16 février 2023
14 h 00 min
Saint Eloi Campus, Building 9, Room 109

09
Fév
2023

Supervised learning by crowdsourcing

9 février 2023
14 h 00 min
Saint Eloi Campus, Building 9, Room 109

08
Déc
2022

Robustness for models and algorithms in Machine Learning.

8 décembre 2022
14 h 00 min
Saint Eloi Campus, Building 9, Room 109

01
Déc
2022

A second-order inertial algorithm for non-smooth non-convex large-scale optimization

1 décembre 2022
14 h 00 min
Saint Eloi Campus, Building 9, Room 109

24
Nov
2022

Species Distribution Models: An overview for the ML community and a case study on the Orchid Family

24 novembre 2022
14 h 00 min
Saint Eloi Campus, Building 9, Room 109

10
Nov
2022

Rotation and scale equivariant vision models with graph neural networks and SIFT

10 novembre 2022
14 h 00 min
Saint Eloi Campus, Building 9, Room 109

20
Oct
2022

Non-negative Tucker decomposition

20 octobre 2022
14 h 00 min
Saint Eloi Campus, Building 9, Room 109

13
Oct
2022

Improve learning combining crowdsourced labels by weighting Areas Under the Margin

13 octobre 2022
14 h 00 min
Saint Eloi Campus, Building 9, Room 109

29
Sep
2022

A framework for optimal convex regularization for the recovery of low-dimensional models

29 septembre 2022
14 h 00 min
Saint Eloi Campus, Building 9, Room 109

22
Sep
2022

High-probability convergence and algorithmic stability for stochastic gradient descent

22 septembre 2022
14 h 00 min
Saint Eloi Campus, Building 9, Room 109

15
Sep
2022

Optimal transport and barycenters

15 septembre 2022
14 h 00 min
Saint Eloi Campus, Building 9, Room 109

09
Juin
2022

ReservoirPy: a Python library for Reservoir Computing

9 juin 2022
14 h 00 min
Saint Eloi Campus, Building 9, Room 109

12
Mai
2022

Uncertainty Quantification and Other Challenges in ML Applied to Sustainability Science

12 mai 2022
14 h 00 min
Saint Eloi Campus, Building 9, Room 109

28
Avr
2022

Federated Multi-Task Learning: Learning Personalized Models from Decentralized Data

28 avril 2022
14 h 00 min
Saint Eloi Campus, Building 9, Room 109

21
Avr
2022

14
Avr
2022

Introduction to RL: from Dynamic Programming to Deep Q-Networks

14 avril 2022
14 h 00 min
Saint Eloi Campus, Building 9, Room 109

07
Avr
2022

Graph Neural Networks on Large Random Graphs: Convergence, Stability, Universality

7 avril 2022
14 h 00 min
Saint Eloi Campus, Building 9, Room 109

24
Fév
2022

Theory and practice of coordinate descent: tutorial and actual improvements

24 février 2022
14 h 00 min
Saint Eloi Campus, Building 9, Room 109

17
Fév
2022

Exploring deep neural networks via layer-peeled model: Minority collapse in imbalanced training

17 février 2022
14 h 00 min
Saint Eloi Campus, Building 9, Room 109

10
Fév
2022

A brief tutorial on nonnegative matrix factorization for unsupervised learning

10 février 2022
14 h 00 min
Saint Eloi Campus, Building 9, Room 109

03
Fév
2022

Session 3 of the reading group

3 février 2022
14 h 00 min
Saint Eloi Campus, Building 9, Room 109

27
Jan
2022

TBA

27 janvier 2022
14 h 00 min
Saint Eloi Campus, Building 9, Room 109

13
Jan
2022

Non-convex sparse regression models

13 janvier 2022
14 h 00 min
Saint Eloi Campus, Building 9, Room 109

06
Jan
2022

Cross-validation: what does it estimate and how well does it do it? (paper presentation)

6 janvier 2022
14 h 00 min
Saint Eloi Campus, Building 9, Room 109

09
Déc
2021

Session 2 of the reading group on "Deep learning: a statistical viewpoint"""

9 décembre 2021
14 h 00 min
Saint Eloi Campus, Building 9, Room 109

02
Déc
2021

Session 1 of the reading group on "Deep learning: a statistical viewpoint"""

2 décembre 2021
14 h 00 min
Saint Eloi Campus, Building 9, Room 109

25
Nov
2021

An introduction to algorithmic fairness

25 novembre 2021
14 h 00 min
Saint Eloi Campus, Building 9, Room 109

28
Oct
2021

14
Oct
2021

Introduction to automatic differentiation

14 octobre 2021
14 h 00 min
Saint Eloi Campus, Building 9, Room 109

23
Sep
2021

An introduction to transformers

23 septembre 2021
14 h 00 min
Saint Eloi Campus, Building 9, Room 109

01
Juil
2021

Bayesian model choice as a classification problem

1 juillet 2021
14 h 00 min
Saint Eloi Campus, Building 9, Room 109

17
Juin
2021

Misinformation in times of the pandemic

17 juin 2021
14 h 00 min
Saint Eloi Campus, Building 9, Room 109

20
Mai
2021

Segmentation d'instance du R-CNN au Mask R-CNN

20 mai 2021
14 h 00 min
Saint Eloi Campus, Building 9, Room 109

29
Avr
2021

Ridge Regularization: an Essential Concept in Data Science (paper club)

29 avril 2021
14 h 00 min
Saint Eloi Campus, Building 9, Room 109

15
Avr
2021

Learning to optimize with unrolled algorithms

15 avril 2021
14 h 00 min
Saint Eloi Campus, Building 9, Room 109

01
Avr
2021

Screening for sparse online learning

1 avril 2021
14 h 00 min
Saint Eloi Campus, Building 9, Room 109

01
Avr
2021

Expanding boundaries of Gap Safe screening

1 avril 2021
14 h 00 min
Saint Eloi Campus, Building 9, Room 109

18
Mar
2021

Fast Classification rates without standard margin assumption [and other stuff] (paper club)

18 mars 2021
14 h 00 min
Saint Eloi Campus, Building 9, Room 109

04
Mar
2021

Introduction to causal inference

4 mars 2021
14 h 00 min
Saint Eloi Campus, Building 9, Room 109

18
Fév
2021

R shiny: building interactive graphical applications seamlessly

18 février 2021
14 h 00 min
Saint Eloi Campus, Building 9, Room 109

04
Fév
2021

Keops: Fast geometric methods with symbolic matrices (software)

4 février 2021
14 h 00 min
Saint Eloi Campus, Building 9, Room 109

21
Jan
2021

Similarity Search, Approximate Nearest Neighbors et hashing

21 janvier 2021
14 h 00 min
Saint Eloi Campus, Building 9, Room 109

07
Jan
2021

NeurIPS debriefing: "Rankmax: An Adaptive Projection Alternative to the Softmax Function"""

7 janvier 2021
14 h 00 min
Saint Eloi Campus, Building 9, Room 109

18 Juin 2026

The distribution of calibrated likelihood functions on the probability-likelihood simplex

Inria Montpellier, St-Priest Campus, Building 2, Room 167

Paul-Gauthier Noé LIS – CNRS/ Aix Marseille Université

While calibration of probabilistic predictions has been widely studied, we will rather discuss calibration of likelihood functions. This has been studied, especially in biometrics, in cases with only two exhaustive and mutually exclusive hypotheses (or classes): where likelihood functions can be written as log-likelihood-ratios (LLRs). After defining calibration for LLRs and its connection with the concept of weight-of-evidence, I will present the idempotence property and its associated constraint on the distribution of the LLRs. Although these results have been known for decades, they have been limited to the binary case. In this talk, we will see how the Aitchison geometry of the simplex allows us to extend these results to cases with more than two hypotheses. To be more precise, it recovers, in a vector form, the additive form of the Bayes’ rule; extending therefore the LLR and the weight-of-evidence to any number of hypotheses. Especially, we will extend the definition of calibration, the idempotence, and the constraint on the distribution of likelihood functions to this multiple hypotheses and multiclass counterpart of the LLR: the isometric-log-ratio transformed likelihood function. Even if this work is mainly conceptual, we will discuss one application to machine learning by presenting a non-linear discriminant analysis where the discriminant components form a calibrated likelihood function over the classes, improving therefore the interpretability and the reliability of the method.

11 Juin 2026

Ensembles in machine learning: (simple) theory and (simple) practice​

Inria Montpellier, St-Priest Campus, Building 5, Room 03.124

Pierre-Alexandre Mattei Inria (Maasai)

Ensemble methods combine predictions from various statistical learning models. Their most famous representatives are random forests or deep ensembles. This talk will center around the question: « How many models should I aggregate? »
We will see that the answer depends on the chosen performance metric. Specifically, in the case of convex losses (such as cross-entropy in classification or mean squared error in regression), the error is a decreasing function of the number of models. In the case of non-convex losses (such as classification error in classification or the Fréchet Inception distance in generative modelling), things are more nuanced, and the error can sometimes be non-monotonic.
These results will be illustrated with examples of neural network ensembles, both for classification and generative modelling. This work is notably based on the papers:
– Are Ensembles Getting Better All the Time? (with Damien Garreau), JMLR 2025
– When Are Two Scores Better Than One? Investigating Ensembles of Diffusion Models (with Raphaël Razafindralambo, Rémy Sun, Frédéric Precioso, and Damien Garreau), TMLR 2026
– Beyond Mixtures and Products for Ensemble Aggregation: A Likelihood Perspective on Generalized Means (with Raphaël Razafindralambo, Rémy Sun, Frédéric Precioso, and Damien Garreau), arXiv 2026

 

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