Quentin Berthet
@qberthet
Research Scientist at Google DeepMind Machine Learning - Paris
🚨 New paper on regression and classification! Adding to the discussion on using least-squares or cross-entropy, regression or classification formulations of supervised problems! A thread on how to bridge these problems:

Official results are in - Gemini achieved gold-medal level in the International Mathematical Olympiad! 🏆 An advanced version was able to solve 5 out of 6 problems. Incredible progress - huge congrats to @lmthang and the team! deepmind.google/discover/blog/…
Looking forward to a train ride to Copenhagen!
NeurIPS is pleased to officially endorse EurIPS, an independently-organized meeting taking place in Copenhagen this year, which will offer researchers an opportunity to additionally present their accepted NeurIPS work in Europe, concurrently with NeurIPS. Read more in our blog…
NeurIPS is pleased to officially endorse EurIPS, an independently-organized meeting taking place in Copenhagen this year, which will offer researchers an opportunity to additionally present their accepted NeurIPS work in Europe, concurrently with NeurIPS. Read more in our blog…
"I wasn't meant for Excel spreadsheets. I was meant to fight in Caesar's legions." Dude, the Romans would have gone nuts for Excel
Avec la Mairie de Paris, on se réveille un matin et on a une zone de baignade en face de chez soi (ou presque). Merci !

Come see us in poster 186 to see our poster Around the World in 80 timesteps: A generative Approach to Global Visual Geolocation!
I feel fortunate that I moved to San Francisco 15 years ago and caught the very tail end of tech being weird and a bit nerdy. Every startup in 2010 still had a few developers with ponytails, desks covered with hand-painted Dragon Quest figurines, a CTO who did 80 hours of…
@AAMASconf 2025 was very special for us! We had the opportunity to present a tutorial on general evaluation of AI agents, and we got a best paper award! Congrats to Marc, @kateslarson, @qberthet, @drimgemp and the rest of the team!
If you're attending @AAMASconf 2025 and are interested in general evaluation of AI agents, you should check our tutorial on May 19th! The website is here sites.google.com/view/aamas2025…, including some draft notes! Co-organized with Marc Lanctot, @drimgemp, and @kateslarson 1/2
I am giving a presentation on "Implicit Diffusion" this morning at NUS in Singapore, before heading off to #AISTATS2005 where I will present this work at an Oral

Hey, I'll be at ICLR: (1) Presenting arxiv.org/abs/2405.06780 with @agalashov, @ArthurGretton (2) Giving a presentation at delta-workshop.github.io Reach out if you want to talk about why kernel + diffusion is great 👀 (or other stuff)
En tant qu’ambassadeur aux États Unis, je n’ai cessé d?y rencontrer des chercheurs français qui auraient préféré revenir dans leur pays mais qui se heurtaient aux conditions qu’on leur y offrait en termes de rémunération et de laboratoire. Ce genre de déclaration m’effare.
La France peut accueillir « des centaines de chercheurs » du monde, juge le ministre de la Recherche ➡️ l.leparisien.fr/fwDx
A bit of #ICLR2025 drama
Jesus Christ... openreview.net/forum?id=et5l9…
JUST IN: 🇺🇸 Apple $AAPL flies in 5 planes full of iPhones to avoid US tariffs.
JUST IN: 🇺🇸 Apple $AAPL flies in 5 planes full of iPhones to avoid US tariffs.