Julien Colin

PhD student, Universidad de Alicante

Joined

May 2022

Names

Julien Colin (Preferred)

Emails

****@brown.edu (Confirmed)

****@ellisalicante.org (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

PhD student

Universidad de Alicante (ua.es)

2022 – 2026

Research Associate

Brown University (brown.edu)

2022 – 2022

Research Assistant

Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) (univ-tlse1.fr)

2021 – 2022

MS student

Institut polytechnique de Grenoble (grenoble-inp.fr)

2020 – 2021

MS student

Université Paul Sabatier (Toulouse III) (ups-tlse.fr)

2019 – 2020

Undergrad student

Université de Lorraine (univ-lorraine.fr)

2014 – 2019

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Thomas Serre

2022 – Present

PhD Advisor

Nuria Oliver

2022 – Present

Coauthor

Thomas Fel

2021 – Present

Coauthor

Victor Boutin

2022 – 2023

Coauthor

Remi Cadene

2021 – 2023

Expertise

Explainability

2021 – Present

Human-centered AI

2021 – Present

Publications

Does human-alignment benefit interpretability?
Julien Colin, Nuria M Oliver, Thomas Serre
- ICLR 2026 Re-Align Workshop
- Readers: Everyone
Local vs distributed representations: What is the right basis for interpretability?
Julien Colin, Lore Goetschalckx, Thomas FEL, Victor Boutin, Jay R Gopal, Thomas Serre, Nuria M Oliver
- Submitted to ICLR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
Local vs distributed representations: What is the right basis for interpretability?
Julien Colin, Lore Goetschalckx, Thomas Fel, Victor Boutin, Jay Gopal, Thomas Serre, Nuria Oliver
- CoRR 2024
- Readers: Everyone
Unlocking Feature Visualization for Deep Network with MAgnitude Constrained Optimization
Thomas FEL, Thibaut Boissin, Victor Boutin, Agustin Martin Picard, Paul Novello, Julien Colin, Drew Linsley, Tom ROUSSEAU, Remi Cadene, Lore Goetschalckx, Laurent Gardes, Thomas Serre
- NeurIPS 2023 poster
- Readers: Everyone
Diffusion Models as Artists: Are we Closing the Gap between Humans and Machines?
Victor Boutin, Thomas FEL, Lakshya Singhal, Rishav Mukherji, Akash Nagaraj, Julien Colin, Thomas Serre
- ICML 2023 OralPoster
- Readers: Everyone
Diffusion Models as Artists: Are we Closing the Gap between Humans and Machines?
Victor Boutin, Thomas Fel, Lakshya Singhal, Rishav Mukherji, Akash Nagaraj, Julien Colin, Thomas Serre
- Published: 01 Jan 2023, Last Modified: 10 May 2023
- CoRR 2023
- Readers: Everyone
Unlocking Feature Visualization for Deeper Networks with MAgnitude Constrained Optimization
Thomas Fel, Thibaut Boissin, Victor Boutin, Agustin Picard, Paul Novello, Julien Colin, Drew Linsley, Tom Rousseau, Rémi Cadène, Laurent Gardes, Thomas Serre
- Published: 01 Jan 2023, Last Modified: 29 Sept 2023
- CoRR 2023
- Readers: Everyone
Diffusion Models as Artists: Are we Closing the Gap between Humans and Machines?
Victor Boutin, Thomas Fel, Lakshya Singhal, Rishav Mukherji, Akash Nagaraj, Julien Colin, Thomas Serre
- Published: 01 Jan 2023, Last Modified: 29 Sept 2023
- ICML 2023
- Readers: Everyone
A Benchmark for Compositional Visual Reasoning
Aimen Zerroug, Mohit Vaishnav, Julien Colin, Sebastian Musslick, Thomas Serre
- Published: 17 Sept 2022, Last Modified: 08 Feb 2026
- NeurIPS 2022 Datasets and Benchmarks
- Readers: Everyone
CRAFT: explaining using Concepts from Recursive Activation FacTorization
Thomas FEL, Agustin Martin Picard, Louis Béthune, Thibaut Boissin, Julien Colin, David Vigouroux, Remi Cadene, Thomas Serre
- 16 May 2022 (modified: 05 May 2023)
- NeurIPS 2022 Submitted
- Readers: Everyone

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Co-Authors

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