A research team in Brest, France

BROADERARTIFICIALINTELLIGENCE.

We study representations that help intelligent systems learn, adapt, and make sense of complex data across signals, images, audio, and brain activity.

Axel Marmoret — Associate Professor (Click to view publications) Nicolas Farrugia — Full Professor (Click to view publications) BRAIN Core — Representations across AI & Signal Processing Bastien Pasdeloup — Associate Professor (Click to view publications) Giulia Lioi — Associate Professor (Click to view publications) Mathieu Léonardon — Associate Professor (Click to view publications) Thrifty AI — Few-Shot Learning Compression of AI — Edge & Hardware Efficiency Geometry and AI — Latent Spaces & Graphs Vincent Gripon — Full Professor · Team Lead (Click to view publications)
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01 / RESEARCH

Research

Bridging deep learning, signal processing, and mathematical representations.

6 Permanent Faculty
15+ PhDs & Postdocs
148 HAL Publications
3 Research Pillars

BRAIN is a research team of Lab-STICC (CNRS UMR 6285) hosted at IMT Atlantique and part of the Mathematical and Electrical Engineering (MEE) department.

The purpose of BRAIN is to investigate key questions at the crossbreed of Artificial Intelligence, Deep Learning and Signal Processing, with applications using images, sounds, text and more complex domains including neuroimaging data.

Thrifty AI

How to find efficient representations in the low data regime (typically few-shot or few-label learning).

Compression of AI

How to find efficient representations to lower the demand in computations and energy of AI systems, typically for AI on edge.

Geometry and AI

How to leverage the geometry of latent spaces or input domains to better adapt and monitor AI systems.

02 / SELECTED WORK

Selected publications

A selection of recent highlights from the team. Filter by area or browse our full HAL archive.

All 148 publications
NEURIPS 202501 / EEG FOUNDATION MODEL

REVE: A Foundation Model for EEG

A 4D spatial-temporal foundation model pretrained on 60,000+ hours of EEG designed to adapt seamlessly to arbitrary electrode setups and downstream BCI tasks.

Yassine El Ouahidi, Jonathan Lys, Philipp Thölke, Nicolas Farrugia, Bastien Pasdeloup, Vincent Gripon, Karim Jerbi, Giulia Lioi

ICASSP 202603 / PARAMETER-EFFICIENT AI

TensLoRA: Tensor Alternatives for Low-Rank Adaptation

Leveraging higher-order tensor factorizations across attention projections and layers to achieve superior compression-performance trade-offs when fine-tuning transformers.

Axel Marmoret, Réda Bensaid, Jonathan Lys, Vincent Gripon, François Leduc-Primeau

03 / PEOPLE

People

Researchers, engineers, and doctoral students working across disciplines.

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Nicolas Farrugia
Nicolas Farrugia
Full professor · HDR
Vincent Gripon
Vincent Gripon
Full professor · HDR · Team lead
Giulia Lioi
Giulia Lioi
Associate professor
Mathieu Léonardon
Mathieu Léonardon
Associate professor · HDR
Axel Marmoret
Axel Marmoret
Associate professor
Bastien Pasdeloup
Bastien Pasdeloup
Associate professor · HDR
Venkatesh Subramani
Venkatesh Subramani
Potdoctoral reearcher
Ismail Amessegher
Ismail Amessegher
PhD tudent
Réda Bensaid
Réda Bensaid
PhD tudent
Lucas Benoit
Lucas Benoit
PhD tudent
Philippe Forest
Philippe Forest
PhD tudent
Baptiste Hilaire
Baptiste Hilaire
PhD tudent
Kaiteng Jiang
Kaiteng Jiang
PhD tudent
Tévchhorpoan Khieu
Tévchhorpoan Khieu
PhD tudent
Lucie Jean-Labadye
Lucie Jean-Labadye
PhD tudent
Elise Lagarde
Elise Lagarde
PhD tudent
Jonathan Lys
Jonathan Lys
PhD tudent
Jérémy Morlier
Jérémy Morlier
PhD tudent
Joshua Rivera
Joshua Rivera
PhD tudent
Nolan Sisouphanthong
Nolan Sisouphanthong
PhD tudent
Alexandre Thouvenot
Alexandre Thouvenot
PhD tudent

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04 / CONNECT · 48.39° N, 4.49° W

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