Wassim (Wes) Bouaziz

Publications and projects. You can also find most up-to-date entries for my latest publications on the Google Scholar page.

Byzantine Machine Learning: MultiKrum and an optimal notion of robustness teaser

Byzantine Machine Learning: MultiKrum and an optimal notion of robustness

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arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.03899, Feb, 2026
Cultivating Pluralism In Algorithmic Monoculture: The Community Alignment Dataset teaser

Cultivating Pluralism In Algorithmic Monoculture: The Community Alignment Dataset

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International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2026, Jul, 2025
On Monotonicity in AI Alignment teaser

On Monotonicity in AI Alignment

{"name"=>"Gilles Bareilles", "url"=>"https://gbareilles.fr/"}{"name"=>"Julien Fageot"}{"name"=>"Lê-Nguyên Hoang"}{"name"=>"Peva Blanchard"}{"name"=>"Wassim (Wes) Bouaziz", "url"=>"https://wesbz.github.io"}{"name"=>"Sébastien Rouault", "url"=>"https://sebastien.rouau.lt/"}{"name"=>"El Mahdi El Mhamdi", "url"=>"https://elmahdielmhamdi.com/"}
arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.08998, Jun, 2025
Winter Soldier: Backdooring Language Models at Pre-Training with Indirect Data Poisoning teaser

Winter Soldier: Backdooring Language Models at Pre-Training with Indirect Data Poisoning

{"name"=>"Wassim (Wes) Bouaziz", "url"=>"https://wesbz.github.io"}{"name"=>"Nicolas Usunier"}{"name"=>"El Mahdi El Mhamdi", "url"=>"https://elmahdielmhamdi.com/"}
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2026, Feb, 2025
Clustering Head: A Visual Case Study of the Training Dynamics in Transformers teaser

Clustering Head: A Visual Case Study of the Training Dynamics in Transformers

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arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.24050, Feb, 2025
Easing Optimization Paths: a Circuit Perspective teaser

Easing Optimization Paths: a Circuit Perspective

{"name"=>"Ambroise Odonnat*", "url"=>"https://ambroiseodt.github.io/"}{"name"=>"Wassim (Wes) Bouaziz*", "url"=>"https://wesbz.github.io"}{"name"=>"Vivien Cabannes", "url"=>"https://viviencabannes.github.io/"}
Lecture at IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) 2025, Jan, 2025
Targeted Data Poisoning for Black-Box Audio Datasets Ownership Verification teaser

Targeted Data Poisoning for Black-Box Audio Datasets Ownership Verification

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IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) 2025, Nov, 2024
Data Taggants: Dataset Ownership Verification via Harmless Targeted Data Poisoning teaser

Data Taggants: Dataset Ownership Verification via Harmless Targeted Data Poisoning

{"name"=>"Wassim (Wes) Bouaziz", "url"=>"https://wesbz.github.io"}{"name"=>"Nicolas Usunier"}{"name"=>"El Mahdi El Mhamdi", "url"=>"https://elmahdielmhamdi.com/"}
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2025, Oct, 2024
Iteration Head: A Mechanistic Study of Chain-of-Thought teaser

Iteration Head: A Mechanistic Study of Chain-of-Thought

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Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2024, Oct, 2024
The Llama 3 Herd of Models teaser

The Llama 3 Herd of Models

{"name"=>"Llama 3 Team"}
arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.21783, Jul, 2024
Inverting Gradient Attacks Makes Powerful Data Poisoning teaser

Inverting Gradient Attacks Makes Powerful Data Poisoning

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Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR) 2025, Feb, 2023
On the Parameterized Complexity of Counting Small-Sized Minimum $\boldsymbol{(S, T)}$-Cuts teaser

On the Parameterized Complexity of Counting Small-Sized Minimum $\boldsymbol{(S, T)}$-Cuts

{"name"=>"Pierre Bergé", "url"=>"https://perso.isima.fr/~piberge/index.html"}{"name"=>"Wassim (Wes) Bouaziz", "url"=>"https://wesbz.github.io"}{"name"=>"Arpad Rimmel", "url"=>"https://www.centralesupelec.fr/chercheurs/arpad-rimmel"}{"name"=>"Joanna Tomasik", "url"=>"https://www.centralesupelec.fr/chercheurs/joanna-tomasik"}
SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics, Jan, 2023
$\texttt{pyannote.audio}$: neural building blocks for speaker diarization teaser

$\texttt{pyannote.audio}$: neural building blocks for speaker diarization

{"name"=>"Hervé Bredin", "url"=>"https://herve.niderb.fr/"}{"name"=>"Ruiqing Yin"}{"name"=>"Juan Manuel Coria", "url"=>"https://juanmc2005.github.io/"}{"name"=>"Gregory Gelly"}{"name"=>"Pavel Korshunov", "url"=>"https://www.idiap.ch/~pkorshunov/"}{"name"=>"Marvin Lavechin", "url"=>"https://marvinlvn.github.io/"}{"name"=>"Diego Fustes"}{"name"=>"Hadrien Titeux"}{"name"=>"Wassim (Wes) Bouaziz", "url"=>"https://wesbz.github.io"}{"name"=>"Marie-Philippe Gill"}
IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) 2020, Nov, 2019