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Conferences with proceedings

Jul 15, 2025
ICML
⭐️ The paper Clustering Items through Bandit Feedback: Finding the Right Feature out of Many (Graf et al., 2025) coauthored with Maximilian Graf and Nicolas Verzelen has been accepted at ICML 2025 in Vancoover, Canada. Maximilian will attend the conference and present a poster [Poster].
Feb 24, 2025
ALT
⭐️ My first paper Clustering with bandit feedback: breaking down the computation/information gap (Thuot et al., 2025) coauthored with Alexandra Carpentier, Christophe Giraud and Nicolas Verzelen has been accepted at ALT 2025 in Milan, Italie. I gave a talk, and presented a poster [Slides][Video][Poster].

Talks

Sep 05, 2025
StatMathAppli
I will attend the StatMathAppli 2025 conference in Fréjus, France. I will give a talk on Friday about my last paper with Maximilian Graf (Graf et al., 2025).
Jun 18, 2025
ASCAI
I gave a talk on my work (Graf et al., 2025) at the 4th ASCAI Workshop in Orsay, France [Slides].
Mar 11, 2025
GPSD
I presented the problem (Graf et al., 2025) for the German Probability and Statistics Days (GPSD 2025) in Dresden, Germany [Slides]. After this conference, I spent almost two months visiting Alexandra Carpentier in the University of Potsdam.
Apr 15, 2024
Amazon StatML
I attended the Amazon StatML Workshop 2024 in Berlin.
Feb 20, 2024
ASCAI
I presented for the first time the project (Thuot et al., 2025) at the 3rd ASCAI Workshop in Potsdam, Germany [Slides].
Nov 24, 2023
workshop
I participated in the Workshop on Bandits and Statistical Tests in Potsdam, Germany. The event was organised by my PhD supervisor Alexandra Carpentier.
Sep 18, 2023
StatMathAppli
At the very beginning of my PhD, I attended the StatMathAppli 2023 conference in Fréjus, France. I followed lectures by Gareth O. Roberts (University of Warwick) on retrospective simulation, and Marco Cuturi (ENSAE, Apple ML Research, Paris) on Optimal Transport.

Local activities

Jun 10, 2025
semdoc
As a representative of the PhD students in my lab, I co-organized—with my friend and colleague Nicolás—the first PhD Days of the MISTEA laboratory. All PhD students and postdocs in the lab had the opportunity to present their work to the rest of the team.
Jun 03, 2025
MIPS
I represented my laboratory during the MIPS Week, a multidisciplinary group at Université de Montpellier. I gave a short presentation on my project (Graf et al., 2025) [Slides].
Dec 04, 2024
semdoc
I gave a one hour tutorial on bandit models at the Seminaire des Doctorant·e·s (SemDoc) at IMAG, Université de Montpellier. A month later, I gave the same tutorial in my own laboratory MISTEA [Abstract][Slides].
Jun 04, 2024
Scientific mediation
I took part in the 2024 edition of the Apprentis Chercheurs program. Together with David Métivier, I supervised a pair of middle and high school students on an introductory research project in statistics and mathematical modeling. The 10-session programm concluded with the students presentating their work at a student science congress.
May 02, 2024
seminar
I presented our work (Thuot et al., 2025) at the ML-MTP seminar hosted by INRIA Montpellier [Slides].