Nicolas Usunier
RESEARCH SCIENTIST | PARIS, FRANCE
Nicolas Usunier joined Facebook as a Research Scientist in March 2015. Nicolas received his PhD in Machine Learning from Université Pierre et Marie Curie, in Paris, in 2006. Nicolas was an Associate Professor there until 2012, when he joined Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France, with a chair position from the CNRS-Higher Education Chairs program. Nicolas' research interests are learning theory, learning to rank, and learning with multiples objectives.
Research Areas
Nicolas's Publications
August 24, 2023
NLP
CORE MACHINE LEARNING
Code Llama: Open Foundation Models for Code
Faisal Azhar, Aaron Grattafiori, Alexandre Defossez, Artyom Kozhevnikov, Baptiste Rozière, Cristian Canton Ferrer, Ellen Tan, Fabian Gloeckle, Gabriel Synnaeve, Hugo Touvron, Itai Gat, Ivan Evtimov, Jade Copet, Jingyu Liu, Joanna Bitton, Jonas Gehring, Jérémy Rapin, Louis Martin, Manish Bhatt, Nicolas Usunier, Sten Sootla, Tal Remez, Thomas Scialom, Wenhan Xiong, Yossef (Yossi) Adi
August 24, 2023
November 30, 2022
THEORY
A Simple Convergence Proof of Adam and Adagrad
Alexandre Defossez, Leon Bottou, Nicolas Usunier, Francis Bach
November 30, 2022
December 05, 2021
REINFORCEMENT LEARNING
Hierarchical Skills for Efficient Exploration
andreas krause, Nicolas Usunier, Gabriel Synnaeve, Jonas Gehring
December 05, 2021
October 28, 2021
RANKING AND RECOMMENDATIONS
Two-sided fairness in rankings via Lorenz dominance
Jamal Atif, Nicolas Usunier, Sam Corbett-Davies, Virginie Do
October 28, 2021
May 19, 2021
May 19, 2021
November 30, 2020
THEORY
RANKING AND RECOMMENDATIONS
On ranking via sorting by estimated expected utility
Nicolas Usunier, Clément Calauzènes
November 30, 2020
July 09, 2020
RESEARCH
Growing Action Spaces
Gabriel Synnaeve, Gregory Farquhar, Laura Gustafson, Nicolas Usunier, Zeming Lin, Shimon Whiteson
July 09, 2020
May 26, 2020
RESEARCH
COMPUTER VISION
End-to-end object detection with Transformers
Nicolas Carion, Alexander Kirillov, Francisco Massa, Gabriel Synnaeve, Nicolas Usunier, Sergey Zagoruyko
May 26, 2020
April 30, 2019
RESEARCH
Value Propagation Networks
Nantas Nardelli, Gabriel Synnaeve, Nicolas Usunier, Zeming Lin, Philip H. S. Torr, Pushmeet Kohli
April 30, 2019
December 03, 2018
HUMAN & MACHINE INTELLIGENCE
RESEARCH
Forward Modeling for Partial Observation Strategy Games - A StarCraft Defogger
Gabriel Synnaeve, Daniel Gant, Jonas Gehring, Nicolas Carion, Nicolas Usunier, Vasil Khalidov, Vegard Mella, Zeming Lin
December 03, 2018
October 26, 2018
RESEARCH
SPEECH & AUDIO
SING: Symbol-to-Instrument Neural Generator
Alexandre Defossez, Leon Bottou, Neil Zeghidour, Nicolas Usunier, Francis Bach
October 26, 2018
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