Gersende Fort

Recent talks

• Journée IA du LAAS, september 2025.

• Journée du Département RISC du LAAS - "Approximation Stochastique en Apprentissage - Avancées récentes", Toulouse, France. 18 juin 2025

• Journée de l'équipe SARA du LAAS - "Stochastic Optimization beyond Gradient for Statistics and
  Machine Learning", Toulouse, France, 22 Mai 2025.

• Tutorial "A Deep Dive into Recent Advances in Stochastic Approximation" at ICASSP 2025, Suzhou, China (remotely). 23-25 May 2025. Avec Eric Moulines et Hoi To Wai. Slides here .

• Talk at ICASSP 2025, Hyderabad, India. 6-11 Avril 2025. Slides.pdf

• Tutorial "A Deep Dive into Recent Advances in Stochastic Approximation" at ICASSP 2025, Hyderabad, India. 6-11 Avril 2025. Avec Eric Moulines et Hoi To Wai. Slides here

• Talk at the AI conference Science and Society, during the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit, in Paris ; session The Mathematics of Machine Learning. 6-7 February 2025. Slides.pdf. Also, video of the AI event. And an an interview

• Séminaire Maths-Bio-Santé, 13 Décembre 2024, IMT, Toulouse. [Exposé donné à deux voix, avec J. Chevallier].
  Slides.pdf

• Séminaire de l'équipe SOLACE, 28 novembre 2024, LAAS, Toulouse. Slides.pdf

• Séminaire Images, Optimisation et Probabilités, 14 novembre 2024, IMS & IMB, Bordeaux. Slides.pdf

• Monte Carlo and Quasi-Monte Carlo methods in Scientific Computing, 18-23 August 2024, Waterloo, Canada. Plenary speaker. Slides.pdf

News !

• Apply for a research internship: Reinforcement Learning for Jackson Network

• Accepted for publication in Statistics and Computing, November 2025, Sequential Sample Average Majorization–Minimization with F. Forbes and H.D. Nguyen

• New paper, July 2025, Monte Carlo, with M. Pereyra. For the GRETSI Association, History of the discipline

• Matlab codes for the paper Hierarchical Bayesian Estimation of COVID-19 Reproduction Number are available on gfort-lab

• Accepted, ICASSP 2025 Sampling Nonsmooth Log-Concave Densities: A Comparative Study of Primal-Dual Based Proposal Distributions. With J. Chevallier.

• Accepted, ICASSP 2025 Hierarchical Bayesian Estimation of COVID-19 Reproduction Number. With P. Abry, J. Chevallier and B. Pascal.

New preprints 

• New preprint, September 2025, A Scaled Poisson Bayesian Model for Viral Epidemic Monitoring with B. Pascal, P. Abry and J. Chevallier

• New preprint, July 2025, Federated Majorize-Minimization: Beyond Parameter Aggregation with A. Dieuleveut, M. Hegazy and H.-T. Wai.