Nicolas Berkouk

AI Safety & Auditing

1. Embrace the opaque: A sociology of the xAI community

   with Mehdi Arfaoui, Romain Pialat, Pierre François and Laurence Barry.

2. Techniques d'audit des grands modèles de langage

   with Henri Duprieu.

   Technical report: evaluation frameworks and safety auditing guidelines for large language models.
3. The field of explainable AI: machines to explain machines?

   with Romain Pialat, Mehdi Arfaoui, Pierre François and Laurence Barry.

   In Making and doing transformations, 2024.
4. Heterogeneity without controversy: the field of xAI as the encounter between market strategies and institutional demands for deep learning accountability

   with Romain Pialat, Mehdi Arfaoui, Pierre François and Laurence Barry.

   In Making and doing transformations, 2024.

Topology and Machine Learning

1. Singular Value Representation: A New Graph Perspective On Neural Networks

   with Dan Meller.

   Accepted to the conference AISTAT23.
2. giotto-deep: A Python Package for Topological Deep Learning

   with Raphael Reinauer and Matteo Caorsi.

   Published in The Journal of Open Source Software.
3. Persformer: A Transformer Architecture for Topological Machine Learning

   with Raphael Reinauer and Matteo Caorsi.

Applied Algebraic Topology

1. One Diamond to Rule Them All: Old and new topics about zigzag, levelsets and extended persistence

   with Luca Nyckees.

2. Persistence and the Sheaf-Function Correspondence Published in Forum of Mathematics, Sigma.
3. Projected distances for multi-parameter persistence modules

   with François Petit.

   Accepted in Annales de l'Institut Fourrier.
4. Level-sets Persistence and Sheaf Theory

   with Grégory Ginot and Steve Oudot.

5. Ephemeral Persistence modules and Distance Comparisons

   with François Petit.

   Published in Algebraic and Geometric Topology.
6. Algebraic Homotopy Interleaving Distance Published in the Proceedings of the International Conference on Geometric Science of Information 2021.
7. A Derived Isometry for Constructible Sheaves on R

   with Grégory Ginot.

   Published in Advances in Mathematics.

Other

1. Are competitive entrance exams neutral? Competition and sponsorship in access to the École polytechnique

   with Pierre François.

   Published in Sociologie.

Academic background

For an overview of my academic research, you can have a look at my Ph.D. defense: