Nicolas Ballas

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DINOv2: Learning Robust Visual Features without Supervision
M. Oquab, Timothée Darcet, Théo Moutakanni, Huy V. Vo +22 more
2023Trans. Mach. Learn. Res.12K citations Open access
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FitNets: Hints for Thin Deep Nets
Adriana Romero, Nicolas Ballas, Samira Ebrahimi Kahou, Antoine Chassang +2 more
2014International Conference on Learning Representations5,045 citations
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Theano: A Python framework for fast computation of mathematical expressions
Rami Al-Rfou, Guillaume Alain, Amjad Almahairi, Christof Angermueller +108 more
2016arXiv.org2,386 citations
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A Closer Look at Memorization in Deep Networks
Devansh Arpit, Stanislaw Jastrzebski, Nicolas Ballas, D. Krueger +7 more
2017International Conference on Machine Learning2,319 citations
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Self-Supervised Learning from Images with a Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture
Mahmoud Assran, Quentin Duval, Ishan Misra, P. Bojanowski +4 more
2023Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition1,490 citations Open access
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Describing Videos by Exploiting Temporal Structure
L. Yao, Atousa Torabi, Kyunghyun Cho, Nicolas Ballas +3 more
2015IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision1,113 citations
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Delving Deeper into Convolutional Networks for Learning Video Representations
Nicolas Ballas, L. Yao, C. Pal, Aaron C. Courville
2015International Conference on Learning Representations826 citations
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Three Factors Influencing Minima in SGD
Stanislaw Jastrzebski, Zachary Kenton, Devansh Arpit, Nicolas Ballas +3 more
2017arXiv.org557 citations
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Masked Siamese Networks for Label-Efficient Learning
Mahmoud Assran, Mathilde Caron, Ishan Misra, P. Bojanowski +5 more
2022European Conference on Computer Vision456 citations Open access
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Recurrent Batch Normalization
Tim Cooijmans, Nicolas Ballas, César Laurent, Çaglar Gülçehre +1 more
2016International Conference on Learning Representations420 citations
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Stochastic Gradient Push for Distributed Deep Learning
Mahmoud Assran, Nicolas Loizou, Nicolas Ballas, Michael G. Rabbat
2018International Conference on Machine Learning419 citations
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Zoneout: Regularizing RNNs by Randomly Preserving Hidden Activations
D. Krueger, Tegan Maharaj, J'anos Kram'ar, M. Pezeshki +7 more
2016International Conference on Learning Representations335 citations
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SlowMo: Improving Communication-Efficient Distributed SGD with Slow Momentum
Jianyu Wang, Vinayak Tantia, Nicolas Ballas, Michael G. Rabbat
2019International Conference on Learning Representations230 citations
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Fast Approximate Natural Gradient Descent in a Kronecker-factored Eigenbasis
Thomas George, César Laurent, Xavier Bouthillier, Nicolas Ballas +1 more
2018Neural Information Processing Systems230 citations
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A Dissection of Overfitting and Generalization in Continuous Reinforcement Learning
Amy Zhang, Nicolas Ballas, Joelle Pineau
2018arXiv.org203 citations
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Residual Connections Encourage Iterative Inference
Stanislaw Jastrzebski, Devansh Arpit, Nicolas Ballas, Vikas Verma +2 more
2017International Conference on Learning Representations197 citations
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Improved Conditional VRNNs for Video Prediction
Lluís Castrejón, Nicolas Ballas, Aaron C. Courville
2019IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision181 citations Open access
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Semi-Supervised Learning of Visual Features by Non-Parametrically Predicting View Assignments with Support Samples
Mahmoud Assran, Mathilde Caron, Ishan Misra, P. Bojanowski +3 more
2021IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision177 citations Open access
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On the Relation Between the Sharpest Directions of DNN Loss and the SGD Step Length
Stanislaw Jastrzebski, Zachary Kenton, Nicolas Ballas, Asja Fischer +2 more
2018International Conference on Learning Representations157 citations
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A Dataset and Exploration of Models for Understanding Video Data through Fill-in-the-Blank Question-Answering
Tegan Maharaj, Nicolas Ballas, Anna Rohrbach, Aaron C. Courville +1 more
2016Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition115 citations Open access
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Dynamic Capacity Networks
Amjad Almahairi, Nicolas Ballas, Tim Cooijmans, Yin Zheng +2 more
2015International Conference on Machine Learning109 citations
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Deep Nets Don't Learn via Memorization
D. Krueger, Nicolas Ballas, Stanislaw Jastrzebski, Devansh Arpit +5 more
2017International Conference on Learning Representations85 citations
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The Hidden Uniform Cluster Prior in Self-Supervised Learning
Mahmoud Assran, Randall Balestriero, Quentin Duval, Florian Bordes +5 more
2022International Conference on Learning Representations70 citations Open access
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Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations
Sebastian Gehrmann, H. Strobelt, Alexander M. Rush, Fabio Kepler +496 more
201955 citations Open access
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ImageNet-X: Understanding Model Mistakes with Factor of Variation Annotations
Badr Youbi Idrissi, D. Bouchacourt, Randall Balestriero, I. Evtimov +6 more
2022International Conference on Learning Representations53 citations Open access
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Proposal-Based Video Completion
Yuan-Ting Hu, Heng Wang, Nicolas Ballas, K. Grauman +1 more
2020European Conference on Computer Vision52 citations
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Video Description Generation Incorporating Spatio-Temporal Features and a Soft-Attention Mechanism
L. Yao, Atousa Torabi, Kyunghyun Cho, Nicolas Ballas +3 more
2015arXiv.org52 citations
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IRIM at TRECVID 2014: Semantic Indexing and Instance Search
Nicolas Ballas, Benjamin Labbé, H. Le Borgne, P. Gosselin +20 more
2014TREC Video Retrieval Evaluation45 citations
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Gossip-based Actor-Learner Architectures for Deep Reinforcement Learning
Mahmoud Assran, Joshua Romoff, Nicolas Ballas, Joelle Pineau +1 more
2019Neural Information Processing Systems40 citations
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Finding Flatter Minima with SGD
Stanislaw Jastrzebski, Zachary Kenton, Devansh Arpit, Nicolas Ballas +3 more
2018International Conference on Learning Representations37 citations
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Space-Time Robust Representation for Action Recognition
Nicolas Ballas, Yi Yang, Zhenzhong Lan, Bertrand Delezoide +2 more
2013IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision35 citations
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BARACK: Partially Supervised Group Robustness With Guarantees
N. Sohoni, Maziar Sanjabi, Nicolas Ballas, Aditya Grover +3 more
2021arXiv.org30 citations
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Needles in Haystacks: On Classifying Tiny Objects in Large Images
Nick Pawlowski, Suvrat Bhooshan, Nicolas Ballas, F. Ciompi +2 more
2019arXiv.org27 citations
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Large-Scale Image Mining with Flickr Groups
Alexandru-Lucian Gînsca, Adrian Daniel Popescu, H. Le Borgne, Nicolas Ballas +2 more
2015Conference on Multimedia Modeling27 citations Open access
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CEA LIST's Participation at MediaEval 2013 Placing Task
Adrian Daniel Popescu, Nicolas Ballas
2012MediaEval Benchmarking Initiative for Multimedia Evaluation26 citations
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Trade-offs of Local SGD at Scale: An Empirical Study
J. J. Ortiz, Jonathan Frankle, Michael G. Rabbat, Ari S. Morcos +1 more
2021arXiv.org22 citations
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Width of Minima Reached by Stochastic Gradient Descent is Influenced by Learning Rate to Batch Size Ratio
Stanislaw Jastrzebski, Zachary Kenton, Devansh Arpit, Nicolas Ballas +3 more
2018International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks22 citations Open access
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Resource Constrained Multimedia Event Detection
Zhenzhong Lan, Yi Yang, Nicolas Ballas, Shoou-I Yu +1 more
2014Conference on Multimedia Modeling19 citations
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Supervision Accelerates Pre-training in Contrastive Semi-Supervised Learning of Visual Representations.
Mahmoud Assran, Nicolas Ballas, Lluís Castrejón, Michael G. Rabbat
202018 citations
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Revisiting Loss Modelling for Unstructured Pruning
César Laurent, Camille Ballas, Thomas George, Nicolas Ballas +1 more
2020arXiv.org17 citations
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Trajectories based descriptor for dynamic events annotation
Nicolas Ballas, Betrand Delezoide, F. Prêteux
2011J-MRE '1117 citations
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A Simple Recipe for Competitive Low-compute Self supervised Vision Models
Quentin Duval, Ishan Misra, Nicolas Ballas
2023arXiv.org14 citations Open access
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Evaluation of semi-supervised learning method on action recognition
Haoquan Shen, Yan Yan, Shi-Cheng Xu, Nicolas Ballas +1 more
2014Multimedia tools and applications14 citations
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Stochastic positional embeddings improve masked image modeling
Amir Bar, Florian Bordes, A. Shocher, Mido Assran +5 more
2023International Conference on Machine Learning12 citations
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Lookahead Converges to Stationary Points of Smooth Non-convex Functions
Jianyu Wang, Vinayak Tantia, Nicolas Ballas, Michael G. Rabbat
2020IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing12 citations
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An Evaluation of Fisher Approximations Beyond Kronecker Factorization
César Laurent, Thomas George, Xavier Bouthillier, Nicolas Ballas +1 more
2018International Conference on Learning Representations10 citations
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Oracle Performance for Visual Captioning
L. Yao, Nicolas Ballas, Kyunghyun Cho, John R. Smith +1 more
2015British Machine Vision Conference9 citations Open access
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IRIM at TRECVID 2013: Semantic indexing and multimedia instance search
Nicolas Ballas
20139 citations
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Neural Attentive Circuits
Nasim Rahaman, M. Weiß, Francesco Locatello, C. Pal +4 more
2022Neural Information Processing Systems8 citations Open access
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A Closer Look at Codistillation for Distributed Training
Shagun Sodhani, Olivier Delalleau, Mahmoud Assran, Koustuv Sinha +2 more
2020arXiv.org8 citations
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