Thrifty AI
How to find efficient representations in the low data regime (typically few-shot or few-label learning).
A research team in Brest, France
We study representations that help intelligent systems learn, adapt, and make sense of complex data across signals, images, audio, and brain activity.
01 / RESEARCH
Bridging deep learning, signal processing, and mathematical representations.
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.
How to find efficient representations in the low data regime (typically few-shot or few-label learning).
How to find efficient representations to lower the demand in computations and energy of AI systems, typically for AI on edge.
How to leverage the geometry of latent spaces or input domains to better adapt and monitor AI systems.
02 / SELECTED WORK
A selection of recent highlights from the team. Filter by area or browse our full HAL archive.
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.
Reformulating few-shot adaptation of CLIP-like models through proximal kernel ridge regression in feature space for fast, training-free generalization.
Leveraging higher-order tensor factorizations across attention projections and layers to achieve superior compression-performance trade-offs when fine-tuning transformers.
Disentangling architectural topology from input data in zero-cost Neural Architecture Search proxies to enable rapid hardware-aware model discovery.
03 / PEOPLE
Researchers, engineers, and doctoral students working across disciplines.
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