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Since 1988. Mathematician living at the intersection of Quantum Mechanics, Economics and Optimal Transport. Working at U. Paris-Saclay

Ile-de-France, France
Joined May 2012
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🚨 Student researcher position at Google DeepMind I am recruiting for a 6-months internship in Paris in 2027, on the topic of discrete diffusion. Application link: google.com/about/careers/app…
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The idea of kicking humans out of scientific research because machines may eventually move faster than humans, and should not be slowed down while human understanding catches up with their progress, is one of the most barbaric, ignorant, dull, and sick ideas I have ever encountered. It assumes that scientific ideas advance along a linear path toward some absolute, final truth. A conception of science worthy of a bad science-fiction novel. Science is part of human culture. Kicking humans out of it would not simply be a matter of accelerating scientific progress. It would be a massive transfer of power. Because if humans cease to participate in and understand the production of scientific knowledge, then whoever controls the machines controls scientific and technological progress, and, ultimately, society. It is, essentially, an idea subversive of the democratic order.
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One thing that seems lost in this chaos is that mathematicians’ use of LLMs has been consistently productive over the past year or so, leading to carefully written papers that (1) contain results of a comparable level to those produced in the OAI drop; (2) properly acknowledge both AI use and other people’s work; and (3) are ready for peer review and dissemination at workshops and seminars. And all this was done using models that, apparently, are less capable than the ones used by OAI (there is no way to verify this independently, hence the “apparently”). So, what is getting lost in the chaos is that there was already a way to go about this intelligently, without damaging the human infrastructure that produces mathematicians, and with mathematical progress picking up speed. A clean way forward would be something like giving mathematical researchers access to frontier models. This would give OAI independent, external validation of the quality of their models, while allowing mathematicians to produce papers that are readable, credible, correct, and fair to both the literature and the developers.
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It’s preprint day!
A land of monotone plenty, bis repetita: from classical to weak opti... arXiv:2606.19516 On the Limits of Biased Derivative Information for Nonconvex Stochas... arXiv:2606.19553 Mean-Field Control with a Common Hidden State under Decentralized Ob... arXiv:2606.19639
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Happy to announce that I have been awarded a PiQ (Prigramme @Inria Quadrant @AgenceRecherche ) project: PiQuantO (Problems in Quantum Optimal Transport) come alive! With R. Lelotte we are going to explore Quantum OT and its connections to Density Functional Theory!
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Rachida Dati a dénoncé “le déni et l'omerta” sur les défaillances de l’accueil périscolaire dans son arrondissement, suite à une émission télé. Il y a quelques mois, elle avait pourtant demandé à des parents de garder le silence sur une affaire similaire… tinyurl.com/4vdksbud
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Y a pire pour son jogging (et une conf)
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Luca Nenna retweeted
Insieme verso i Giochi olimpici invernali di Milano-Cortina 2026 🇮🇹
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Skala is now available to everyone! Why are we releasing it? Because we’re not just aiming to publish a cool paper — we’re on a mission to bring DFT to chemical accuracy using deep learning. And to make real progress, we need the community’s feedback. #compchem
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Je ne regrette pas que Les Écologistes aient décliné le rendez-vous de François Bayrou à Matignon, car j’en ai assez entendu ce soir pour toute la semaine à venir. Il distribue des tapes sur les mains des Français qu'il accuse d'être responsables de la dette et de s'en moquer. Il est irrespectueux avec les oppositions, maintenant en dépit de la réalité qu'il n'a pas pu nous joindre parce que nous étions "en vacances" (c'est toujours faux). Il traite par le mépris et la désinformation toutes les propositions qui ne viennent pas de lui, comme la taxe Zucman (dont il invente l'inconstitutionnalité), que Les Écologistes ont fait adopter à l'Assemblée nationale. Il se montre moqueur voire agressif avec les journalistes qui ont l'outrecuidance de le mettre face à ses contradictions. Il nous révèle que l'alternative à la suppression de deux jours fériés est le passage aux 36h. Il est prêt à aller sur le terrain eurosceptique du RN alors qu'il a construit toute sa carrière politique sur le contraire. Il est tellement confus dans ses explications que c'en est presque malaisant. Il n'a jamais un mot pour le défi climatique. François Bayrou ne veut peut-être pas dire au revoir aux Français, mais pour le bien et la santé mentale de tout le monde, il va pourtant le falloir. Ce soir, il a ressassé une nouvelle fois son image de la France qui serait un bateau à la coque percée. Ce qui est sûr, c’est que toute son interview était un naufrage.
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Tres sympa lire l’évaluation du jury IUF (surtout quand on est lauréat, j’avoue) et première fois dans ma vie que le seule point faible est “a bit too trendy for my taste”…si seulement j’étais si trendy que ça 🤣
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Join our team!
Interested in our mission @MSFTResearch to make DFT more accurate and push what’s possible in quantum chemistry? Do you want to directly contribute? We have 2 job openings! 🧪Senior researcher: jobs.careers.microsoft.com/g… ⚛️Senior software engineer: jobs.careers.microsoft.com/g…
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