Using game theory to understand the price of selfishness in times of pandemic and climate change — Have you ever wondered why we need all these international organizations that try to make all 195 countries of the world work together towards a common goal? You’ve probably heard from other people (or even presidents of certain countries) that it is just a waste of time and money, right…

When I approached my wife 85 years old grandfather to ask whether I could go to the bakery instead of him today, he replied with a firm “Surtout pas !” which in translation from French means “Don’t you even think about it!”. This kind of reply was not because he…

From reading a paper for the first time to writing its complete review in a single Medium article — Peer-reviewing is the cornerstone of modern science, and almost all major conferences in machine learning (ML), such as NeurIPS and ICML, rely on it to decide on whether submitted papers are relevant to the community and original enough to be published there. Unfortunately, with the exponentially increasing number of submitted…

Color transfer, Image editing and Automatic translation — As a follow-up of my previous introductory article on optimal transport and a first part of this guide provided by Aurelie Boisbunon here, I will present below how you can solve different tasks with Optimal Transport (OT) in practice using the Python Optimal Transport (POT) toolbox. To start with, let…

30,000kms on the thumb around the globe in 1000 words — In the last 8 years of my life, I hitchhiked in almost 30 different countries with a total of around 30,000kms traveled. …

An (almost) math-free guide to understanding the theory behind transfer learning and domain adaptation. — During the NIPS tutorial talk given in 2016, Andrew Ng said that transfer learning — a subarea of machine learning where the model is learned and then deployed in related, yet different, areas — will be the next driver of machine learning commercial success in the years to come. …