Seminars and Invited Talks


A Tensor Perspective on 2nd-order RNNs   [slides]

October 2024 - RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project (AIP), Tokyo, Japan (credits to M. Lizaire for slides 7-68 and to M. Rizvi-Martel for slides 68-103)


Simulating Weighted Automata with Transformers   [slides]

June 2024 - TAUDos workshop, Marseille, France (credits to M. Rizvi-Martel for the slides)


Tensor Networks, Machine Learning and Quantum   [slides]

June 2024 - Rencontre des membres de l'Institut Courtois, Montreal, Canada
January 2024 - Quantum and AI day @ Mila, Montreal, Canada


Upper and Lower Bounds on the VC-Dimension of Tensor Network Models   [slides][video]

November 2022 - CRM seminar series “Tensors: Quantum Information, Complexity and Combinatorics”, Montreal, Canada


Connections between Weighted Automata, Spectral Learning and Tensor Networks   [slides][video]

August 2021 - Invited Talk at the 15th International Conference on Grammatical Inference (ICGI 2021), online


Tensorized Random Projections   [slides]

May 2021 - Invited Talk at the SIAM conference on applied Linear algebra (LA21), mini-symposium on Tensor Methods: Theory and Applications, online


Learning and Planning in POMDP with Weighted Automata   [slides]

May 2021 - Invited Talk at the Theoreticallay inclined Machine Learning seminar, online


Tensor Network Models for Structured Data   [slides]

December 2020 - Invited Talk at the NeurIPS 2020 Workshop on Quantum Tensor Networks in Machine Learning, online


Adpative Tensor Learning with Tensor Networks   [slides]

November 2020 - Talk at the Huawei Montreal Research Centre, Montreal


Tensor Networks for Machine Learning   [slides][video]

November 2020 - Mila Tea Talk, Montreal
January 2021 - Talk at the Séminaire Signal et Apprentissage, Groupe ALEA , Marseille


Tensorized Random Projections & Adaptive Tensor Learning   [slides]

October 2020 - RIKEN / AIP


Spectral Learning of Weighted Automata and Connections with RNNs and Tensor Neworks  [slides]

March 2020 - Montreal Computational and Qualitative Linguistics Lab Meeting - McGill University


Connecting Weighted Automata and Recurrent Neural Networks through Spectral Learning  [slides]

May 2019 - IACS Seminar - Stony Brook University


Multitask Spectral Learning of Weighted Automata  [slides]

July 2018 - Seminar of the MAGNET team - INRIA Lille


Machine Learning with Tensors for Structured Data   [slides]

Jun. 2018 - RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project (AIP)
Mar. 2018 - Séminaire de doctorat en infomatique cognitive, Université du Québec à Montréal
Feb. 2018 - Colloque du DIRO, Université de Montréal


Higher-order Low-rank Regression

May 2016 - Mathematics and Statistics Seminar, Lancaster University
Nov. 2015 - Workshop on Tensor Decomposition and Covariance Matrix Estimation, Aix-Marseille University