Julien Launay

Joined
August 2019

Names

Julien Launay (Preferred)

Emails

****@lighton.ai (Confirmed)
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****@huggingface.co (Confirmed)
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****@gmail.com (Confirmed)
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****@adaptive-ml.com (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

Researcher
Adaptive ML (adaptive-ml.com)
2024 – 2025
Researcher
HuggingFace (huggingface.co)
2024 – 2024
PhD student
École Normale Supérieure (ens.fr)
2019 – 2023
Researcher
LightOn (lighton.ai)
2019 – 2023
MS student
École Polytechnique, France (polytechnique.fr)
2018 – 2019
MS student
City University of Hong Kong (cityu.edu.hk)
2017 – 2018
MS student
École Normale Supérieure (ens-paris-saclay.fr)
2016 – 2017
Undergrad student
École Normale Supérieure (ens-cachan.fr)
2015 – 2016

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor
Sylvain Gigan
2020 – Present
Coauthor
Iacopo Poli
2019 – Present
PhD Advisor
Florent Krzakala
2019 – Present
PhD Advisor
Laurent Daudet
2019 – Present

Expertise

NLP
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Transfomers
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Scaling
2021 – Present
Deep Learning
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Neural Networks
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Training Methods
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Direct Feedback Alignment
2019 – 2023
Photonics
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Optical Computing
2019 – 2022

Publications

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Co-Authors

View all 94 co-authors