About me
I am a final-year PhD candidate in Machine Learning, jointly trained between ETIS Lab, CY Cergy Paris University / ENSEA / CNRS, France, and the Computer Vision Laboratory at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, through the EUTOPIA co-tutelle programme.
I am supervised by Prof. Dr. Peter Peer, Prof. Dr. Vassilis Christophides, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Vitomir Štruc, and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Son Vu.
My research focuses on generative AI robustness, synthetic-media detection, self-supervised and contrastive representation learning, model evaluation under distribution shift, and efficient neural architectures. I am especially interested in building evaluation pipelines and learning systems that remain reliable beyond narrow benchmark settings.
I have published work at CVPR, ICCV, and BMVC. My recent projects include SeeABLE, a contrastive learning framework for exposing deepfakes; QN-Mixer, an optimization-inspired neural architecture for sparse-view CT reconstruction; and SSD, a neural-collapse-inspired approach to contrastive continual learning.
I am currently interested in research scientist, research engineer, and machine learning roles involving AI safety evaluations, model robustness, multimodal systems, generative AI, quantitative machine learning, and reliable AI systems.
Before joining the PhD, I received an engineering degree from ENSEA, École nationale supérieure de l’électronique et de ses applications, with a specialization in Computer Science, Systems, Artificial Intelligence, and Big Data.
News
- 2024: QN-Mixer accepted at CVPR 2024.
- 2024: SSD accepted at BMVC 2024.
- 2023: SeeABLE accepted at ICCV 2023.
Selected Projects
Unified Deepfake Evaluation Framework
Private research framework for standardized deepfake evaluation across datasets. It manages dataset manifests, video frame extraction with ffmpeg, detector interfaces, PyTorch loaders, data augmentation, and frame/video-level metrics such as accuracy and AUROC.
QN-Mixer
Project page for CVPR 2024 work on sparse-view CT reconstruction.
Project page
Gym Abalone
OpenAI Gym-style reinforcement learning environment for the board game Abalone.
GitHub
Publications
SSD: Neural Collapse Inspired Contrastive Continual Learning
Published in BMVC 2024, 2024
Contrastive continual learning method inspired by neural collapse.
Recommended citation: Nicolas Larue, et al. SSD: Neural Collapse Inspired Contrastive Continual Learning. BMVC 2024. https://bmva-archive.org.uk/bmvc/2024/papers/Paper_579/paper.pdf
QN-Mixer: A Quasi-Newton MLP-Mixer Model for Sparse-View CT Reconstruction
Published in CVPR 2024, 2024
Efficient neural architecture for sparse-view CT reconstruction, inspired by Quasi-Newton optimization.
Recommended citation: Ishak Ayad, Nicolas Larue, Maï K. Nguyen. QN-Mixer: A Quasi-Newton MLP-Mixer Model for Sparse-View CT Reconstruction. CVPR 2024. https://towzeur.github.io/QN-Mixer/
SeeABLE: Soft Discrepancies and Bounded Contrastive Learning for Exposing Deepfakes
Published in ICCV 2023, 2023
Contrastive learning framework for robust deepfake detection and generalization to unseen synthetic media.
Recommended citation: Nicolas Larue, Ngoc-Son Vu, Vitomir Štruc, Peter Peer, Vassilis Christophides. SeeABLE: Soft Discrepancies and Bounded Contrastive Learning for Exposing Deepfakes. ICCV 2023. https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content/ICCV2023/html/Larue_SeeABLE_Soft_Discrepancies_and_Bounded_Contrastive_Learning_for_Exposing_Deepfakes_ICCV_2023_paper.html
