Research

Rethinking generative AI from the ground up: Inside the TODO project with Alain Durmus

While generative AI tools continue to impress, their inner workings remain largely mysterious. Hi! PARIS Fellow Alain Oliviero Durmus is tackling this challenge head-on with his project TODO – Toward Enhanced Generative Models. By applying tools from stochastic optimal control, he’s building a stronger mathematical foundation for diffusion and flow models, aiming to make them more robust, interpretable, and ready for complex real-world applications.