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El-Mahdi El-Mhamdi
Principal Researcher, Calicarpa
Assistant Professor, Applied Mathematics, École polytechnique
Joined
August 2018
Names
El-Mahdi El-Mhamdi
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,
El Mahdi El Mhamdi
Emails
****@epfl.ch
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****@polytechnique.org
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****@elmhamdi.com
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****@polytechnique.edu
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Personal Links
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Career & Education History
Principal Researcher
Calicarpa
(calicarpa.com)
2023
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Present
Assistant Professor
Applied Mathematics,
École polytechnique
(polytechnique.edu)
2021
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Present
Senior Research Scientist
Google
(google.com)
2020
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2023
PhD student
EPFL
(epfl.ch)
2016
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2020
Advisors, Relations & Conflicts
PhD Advisee
Nour Hezbri
2025
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Present
Postdoc Advisee
Gilles Bareilles
2025
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Present
PhD Advisee
Adrien Majka
2024
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Present
PhD Advisee
Wassim Bouaziz
2022
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Present
Coauthor
Lê Nguyên Hoang
2019
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Present
Coauthor
Sébastien Rouault
2018
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Present
Coauthor
Peva Blanchard
2017
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Present
Expertise
Byzantine Fault Tolerance
2016
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Present
Distributed Machine Learning
2016
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Present
Safe Interruptility
2016
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Present
Poisoning attacks
2016
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Present
AI alignment
2016
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Present
Distributed Algorithms
2015
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Present
Publications
Dropout and the Outliers: Could Transformers Overcome Their Single Points of Failure?
Nour Hezbri
,
Gilles Bareilles
,
El-Mahdi El-Mhamdi
Sci4DL 2026
Readers:
Everyone
Byzantine Machine Learning: MultiKrum and an Optimal Notion of Robustness
Gilles Bareilles
,
Wassim Bouaziz
,
Julien Fageot
,
El-Mahdi El-Mhamdi
ICLR 2026 Trustworthy AI
Readers:
Everyone
On Monotonicity in AI Alignment
Gilles Bareilles
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Julien Fageot
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Lê-Nguyên Hoang
,
Peva Blanchard
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Wassim Bouaziz
,
Sébastien Rouault
,
Sadegh Farhadkhani
,
El-Mahdi El-Mhamdi
Submitted to ICLR 2026
Readers:
Everyone
Winter Soldier: Backdooring Language Models at Pre-Training with Indirect Data Poisoning
Wassim Bouaziz
,
Mathurin VIDEAU
,
Nicolas Usunier
,
El-Mahdi El-Mhamdi
ICLR 2026 Poster
Readers:
Everyone
Approaching the Harm of Gradient Attacks While Only Flipping Labels
Abdessamad El Kabid
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El-Mahdi El-Mhamdi
Submitted to ICLR 2026
Readers:
Everyone
Winter Soldier: Backdooring Language Models at Pre-Training with Indirect Data Poisoning
Wassim Bouaziz
,
Mathurin VIDEAU
,
Nicolas Usunier
,
El-Mahdi El-Mhamdi
NeurIPS Lock-LLM Workshop 2025 Poster
Readers:
Everyone
Inverting Gradient Attacks Makes Powerful Data Poisoning
Wassim Bouaziz
,
Nicolas Usunier
,
El-Mahdi El-Mhamdi
Accepted by TMLR
Readers:
Everyone
On the strength of goodhart's law
Adrien Majka
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Wassim Bouaziz
,
El-Mahdi El-Mhamdi
MoFA Poster
Readers:
Everyone
The Strong, weak and benign Goodhart’s law. An independence-free and paradigm-agnostic formalisation
Adrien Majka
,
El-Mahdi El-Mhamdi
MoFA Poster
Readers:
Everyone
The Strong, weak and benign Goodhart's law. An independence-free and paradigm-agnostic formalisation
Adrien Majka
,
El-Mahdi El-Mhamdi
ICML 2025 Workshop TAIG Poster
Readers:
Everyone
View all 58 publications
Co-Authors
Abdessamad El Kabid
Adrien Majka
Aidan Jungo
Alain Durmus
Alain Oliviero Durmus
Alexandre Maurer
Amine Boussetta
Anastasiia Kucherenko
Andrei Kucharavy
Andrew J Smart
Antoine Scheid
Arsany Guirguis
Avijit Ghosh
Aymeric Capitaine
Ben Crulis
Borhane Blili-Hamelin
Chris Vossen
Christopher Graziul
Dalia Papuc
Daniil Tiapkin
Eric Moulines
Eryk Salvaggio
Etienne Boursier
Fabricio Murai
Felix Grimberg
View all 64 co-authors