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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.

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Rethinking Uncertainty in Machine Learning

As machine learning systems become embedded in critical decisions, from finance to infrastructure, the need for trustworthy, interpretable predictions has never been greater. Aymeric Dieuleveut, Professor of Statistics and Machine Learning at École polytechnique and scientific co-director of the Hi! PARIS Center, believes the key lies not in the models themselves, but in how we communicate their uncertainty.