Emilie Morvant

Associate Professor (Maître de Conférences, HDR)

Université Jean Monnet St-Etienne
Laboratoire Hubert Curien, UMR CNRS 5516, Data Intelligence Team

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  • April 25: I defended my "Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches" (HDR)
    Advances in PAC-Bayesian theory from generalization bounds to supervised and transfer learning algorithms (in french)

  • May 24: Accepted paper at ECML-PKDD 2024
    A Theoretically Grounded Extension of Universal Attacks from the Attacker's Viewpoint

  • May 24: Accepted paper at ECML-PKDD 2024
    A Theoretically Grounded Extension of Universal Attacks from the Attacker's Viewpoint

  • May 24: A communication accepted paper at CAp 2024
    Une borne PAC-Bayésienne sur une mesure de risque pour l'apprentissage équitable

  • Jan 24: Accepted paper at AISTATS 2024
    Leveraging PAC-Bayes Theory and Gibbs Distributions for Generalization Bounds with Complexity Measures

  • July 23: Accepted paper a Machine Learning Journal
    Included in the program of ECML-PKDD 2023
  • Dec 22: Paul Viallard defended his Ph.D. Congratz !
    Beyond PAC-Bayesian Bounds: From Disintegration to Novel Bounds

  • May 22: 2 communications accepter at CAp'22

  • I was a meta-reviewer for ECML-PKDD'22

  • March 22: I was an external examinator of the PhD Thesis of Luxin Zhang --- Well done
    Model Agnostic Domain Adaptation: Application to Fraud Detection

  • I was a reviewer for ICML 2022

  • Two papers accepted at NeurIPS 2021
    Learning Stochastic Majority Votes by Minimizing a PAC-Bayes Generalization Bound
    A PAC-Bayes Analysis of Adversarial Robustness

  • I am the publicity chair of ECML-PKDD 2022

  • I am a membre of CNU 27
    the french National Council of Universities for computer science

  • June 21: A paper accepted at ECML-PKDD'21
    Self-Bounding Majority Vote Learning Algorithms by the Direct Minimization of a Tight PAC-Bayesian C-Bound

  • May 21: 3 communcations accepted at CAp'21

  • I was a reviewer for ICML 2021

  • Dec. 20: Léo Gautheron defended his Ph.D. Well Done.

  • June 20: A paper accepted at ECML-PKDD'20
    Landmark-based Ensemble Learning with Random Fourier Features and Gradient Boosting

  • May 20: Two communications accepted at CAp'20

  • Apr. 20: A short version of our domain adaptation book is avalaible on ArXiV
    Metric Learning from Imbalanced Data with Generalization Guarantees

  • A paper accepted in Pattern Recognition Letters
    Metric Learning from Imbalanced Data with Generalization Guarantees

  • A communication accepted to ML with Guarantees workshop @NeurIPS'19
    Interpreting Neural Networks as Majority Votes through the PAC-Bayesian Theory

  • I will be a reviewer for IDA 2020

  • Sept. 19: Spare time news - I obtained my 2nd star Black Belt in MKF

  • Aug. 19: Our book on Domain Adaptation Theory is now available

  • Aug. 19: A paper accepted in Neurocomputing journal
    PAC-Bayes and Domain Adaptation

  • Aug. 19: A paper accepted at ICTAI'19
    Metric Learning from Imbalanced Data

  • June 19: I am a board Member of the MALIA group of SFdS

  • June 19: I will give a talk during JDS'19
    When PAC-Bayesian Majority Vote meets Domain Adaptation

  • May 19: One communication accepted at >CAp'19

  • May 19: A paper accepted in Neurocomputing journal

  • I will be a reviewer for ECML-PKDD'19

  • Jan. 19: The website of our project APRIORI is online here

  • Dec. 18: paper accepted at AISTATS'2019
    Pseudo-Bayesian Learning with Kernel Fourier Transform as Prior

  • I will be a reviewer for ICML'19

  • Research report on PAC-Bayes and Random Fourier features

  • Oct. 18: Congratz to my student Anil Goyal who obtained his Ph.D.

  • Post-Doc offer: Machine Learning for Multiview Learning
    More informations here

  • ANR project APRIORI accepted (I am the coordinator)
    A Pac-bayesian RepresentatIOn leaRnIng perspective

  • A paper accepted at IDA'18
    Multiview Learning of Weighted Majority Vote by Bregman Divergence Minimization

  • I will be the co-chair of the Demo track ECML/PKDD'19

  • Two communications accepted at CAp'18

  • I am a reviewer for ICML'18

  • I gave a talk at INRIA Lille, MODAL team
    When PAC-Bayesian Majority Vote meets Transfer Learning

  • INS2I-CNRS project JCJC 2018 accepted "PaRaFF" (with P. Germain)
    PAC-Bayesian Random Fourier Features

  • I will be a member of the scientific comittee of a NIPS 2017 workshop
    (Almost) 50 Shades of Bayesian Learning: PAC-Bayesian trends and insights

  • Post-Doc offer: Machine Learning for Multiview Learning
    More informations here

  • I am one of the vice-president of the SSFAM
    The French Association on Machine Learning

  • June 17: A paper accepted at ECML'17
    PAC-Bayesian Analysis for a two-step Hierarchical Mutliview Learning Approach

  • May 17: A communication accepted at CAp'17

  • I will be a reviewer for NIPS'17

  • I will be a reviewer for ICML'17

  • Spare-time news: I am a 1st Star Black Belt in Mansuria Kung Fu!!

  • The Hubert Curien Lab has its own Facebook Page
    and Twitter account

  • My research group has its own YouTube Channel! Follow us

  • Sept 16: A paper accepted in Neurocomputing
    Risk Upper Bounds for General Ensemble Methods with an application to Multiclass Classification

  • May 16: A paper accepted at CAp 2016
    The french conference on machine learning
  • April 16: A paper accepted at ICML 2016

  • March 16: A new version of the research report A New PAC-Bayesian Perspective on Domain Adaptation

  • My research group has its own Twitter account!

  • What is Domain Adaptation?---a popularization: Slides of a talk I gave (in french)

  • I will be a I will be a member of the programm comittee of BeyondLabeler - Human is More Than a Labeler

  • I'm responsible of the maintenance & development of LabMetry (bibliometry platform created by J. Bennegent & F. Voron)

  • The source code of our new domain adapatation algo is available here

  • A communication accepted at a NIPS'15 Workshop
    Transfer and Multi-Task Learning: Trends and New Perspectives

  • I am a member of the program comittee of the french conference on machine learning (CAp'16)

  • I will be a reviewer for ICML 2016

  • I am a member of the board of the Hubert Curien Lab.

  • I was a reviewer for TASK-CV 2015

  • I'm in charge of the 2nd year of BSc in Computer Science

  • June 15: The research report on our novel work on domain adaptation is available
    A new PAC-Bayesian perspective on Domain Adaptation

  • June 15: A new version of the research report
    On the Generalization of the C-Bound to Structured Output Ensemble Methods

  • April 15: We are opening a PhD thesis position
    Annotations transfer in a domain adaptation framework

  • Mar 15: Our long paper on PAC-Bayesian theorems for domain adaptation is available on arXiv

  • Reviewer for ICML'2015

  • Two communications accepted at NIPS'14 Workshops
    Transfer and Multi-task learning: Theory Meets Practice
    Representation and Learning Methods for Complex Outputs

  • I will be a member of the organization committe of IDA 2015
    (International Symposium on Intelligent Data Analysis)

  • Oct 14: I am an assitant professor at university of Saint-Etienne

  • Sept 14: I received a Ph.D. award from Aix-Marseille Univ.

  • A paper accepted at NIPS'14

  • A paper accepted to Pattern Recognition Letters

  • A paper accepted to Machine Learning Journal
    in the ECML/PKDD 2014 journal track

  • A paper accepted at CAp 2014
    The french conference on machine learning
  • May 14: My Ph.D. is awarded with a 1st accessit
                of the "Prix de thèse de l'AFIA 2014"

  • April 14: A paper accepted at S+SSPR 14

  • I will co-organize LEMA a workshop at ECML-PKDD'14
    LEarning with Multiple views: Applications to computer vision and multimedia

  • A communication accepted at a NIPS'13 Workshop
    Transfer and Multi-Task Learning Workshop

  • A communication accepted at WiML'13
    Women in Machine Learning workshop

  • I will be a co-chair of ÖAGM 2014
    (The Annual Workshop of the Austrian Association for Pattern Recognition)

  • 1st Oct. 13: I am a postdoc at the IST Austria

  • Sept. 13: A paper accepted at ACML 2013

  • 18 Sept. 13: Ph.D. public defense

  • April 13: Two papers accepted at CAp'13
                        (French Conference on ML)

  • March 13: A paper accepted at ICML 2013