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Yann Pequignot
Google Scholar ID: Ft1XWI4AAAAJ
Université Laval
mathématiques
machine learning
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Publications
7 items
Mind the Spike: Mechanisms and Brittleness of Visual Massive Activations in Large Vision-Language Models
2026
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SHAPO: Sharpness-Aware Policy Optimization for Safe Exploration
2026
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GRANITE: A Generalized Regional Framework for Identifying Agreement in Feature-Based Explanations
2026
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Efficiency vs. Alignment: Investigating Safety and Fairness Risks in Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning of LLMs
2025
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Robust Fine-Tuning from Non-Robust Pretrained Models: Mitigating Suboptimal Transfer With Adversarial Scheduling
2025
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A Guide to Robust Generalization: The Impact of Architecture, Pre-training, and Optimization Strategy
2025
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GROOD: Gradient-Aware Out-of-Distribution Detection
2023
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Resume
Research Experience
Since July 2020: Scientific coordinator of the DEEL project and member of IID at Laval University
Since November 2019: Postdoctoral scholar at the Centre de recherche en données massives, Université Laval, Québec
Sep 2018 – Jun 2019: Postdoctoral position at the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, McGill University, Montreal
Jan 2017 – Sep 2018: Early Postdoc.Mobility fellow of the Swiss National Science Foundation at UCLA Department of Mathematics
2016: Postdoctoral researcher at the Kurt Gödel Research Center
Background
Mathematician and machine learning researcher
Research interests: Explainability, Robustness and Trustworthiness in Machine Learning
Descriptive set theory, Infinite games with perfect information
Combinatorics, Well-quasi-order and better-quasi-order
Computability, Effective Descriptive Set Theory, Computable analysis
Co-authors
12 total
Gabriel Laberge
École Polytechnique de Montréal
Foutse Khomh
NSERC Arthur B. McDonald Fellow, CRC Tier 1, Canada CIFAR AI Chair, FRQ-IVADO Chair, Full Professor
Sabyasachi Sahoo
PhD Student at Mila, Inria, Université Laval
Mario Marchand
professeur d'informatique (retraité), Université Laval
Amin Nikanjam
Staff Researcher, Huawei Canada
Florian Tambon
Université du Luxembourg
Christian Gagné
Professor at Université Laval - IID - LVSN - CeRVIM - CRDM - CIFAR - Mila
Jonas Ngnawé
Université Laval, Mila-Quebec AI Institute, Stanford University