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Samuel Lavoie
Researcher, Google
PhD student, DIRO, University of Montreal
Joined
September 2018
Names
Samuel Lavoie
(Preferred)
,
Samuel Lavoie-Marchildon
Emails
****@umontreal.ca
(Confirmed)
,
****@gmail.com
(Confirmed)
Personal Links
Homepage
DBLP
Career & Education History
Researcher
Google
(google.com)
2026
–
Present
PhD student
DIRO,
University of Montreal
(umontreal.ca)
2020
–
2026
Researcher
Facebook
(meta.com)
2022
–
2024
MS student
University of Montreal
(umontreal.ca)
2018
–
2020
MS student
Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms, University of Montreal, University of Montreal
(mila.umontreal.ca)
2018
–
2020
Advisors, Relations & Conflicts
PhD Advisor
Aaron Courville
2019
–
Present
Coauthor
Nicolas Ballas
2022
–
2024
Expertise
Self-Supervised learning
Present
probabilistic inference
Present
representation learning
Present
generative models
2018
–
Present
deep learning
2017
–
Present
Publications
Simplicial Embeddings Improve Sample Efficiency in Actor–Critic Agents
Johan Obando-Ceron
,
Walter Mayor
,
Samuel Lavoie
,
Scott Fujimoto
,
Aaron Courville
,
Pablo Samuel Castro
ICLR 2026 Poster
Readers:
Everyone
Compositional Discrete Latent Code for High Fidelity, Productive Diffusion Models
Samuel Lavoie
,
Michael Noukhovitch
,
Aaron Courville
NeurIPS 2025 poster
Readers:
Everyone
Modeling Caption Diversity in Contrastive Vision-Language Pretraining
Samuel Lavoie
,
Polina Kirichenko
,
Mark Ibrahim
,
Mido Assran
,
Andrew Gordon Wilson
,
Aaron Courville
,
Nicolas Ballas
ICML 2024 Poster
Readers:
Everyone
Modeling Caption Diversity in Contrastive Vision-Language Pretraining
Samuel Lavoie
,
Polina Kirichenko
,
Mark Ibrahim
,
Mido Assran
,
Andrew Gordon Wilson
,
Aaron C. Courville
,
Nicolas Ballas
ICML 2024
Readers:
Everyone
Modeling Caption Diversity in Contrastive Vision-Language Pretraining
Samuel Lavoie
,
Polina Kirichenko
,
Mark Ibrahim
,
Mahmoud Assran
,
Andrew Gordon Wilson
,
Aaron C. Courville
,
Nicolas Ballas
CoRR 2024
Readers:
Everyone
An Introduction to Vision-Language Modeling
Florian Bordes
,
Richard Yuanzhe Pang
,
Anurag Ajay
,
Alexander C. Li
,
Adrien Bardes
,
Suzanne Petryk
,
Oscar Mañas
,
Zhiqiu Lin
,
Anas Mahmoud
,
Bargav Jayaraman
,
Mark Ibrahim
,
Melissa Hall
,
Yunyang Xiong
,
Jonathan Lebensold
,
Candace Ross
,
Srihari Jayakumar
,
Chuan Guo
,
Diane Bouchacourt
,
Haider Al-Tahan
,
Karthik Padthe
et al. (21 additional authors not shown)
CoRR 2024
Readers:
Everyone
SPARO: Selective Attention for Robust and Compositional Transformer Encodings for Vision
Ankit Vani
,
Bac Nguyen
,
Samuel Lavoie
,
Ranjay Krishna
,
Aaron C. Courville
CoRR 2024
Readers:
Everyone
Language Model Alignment with Elastic Reset
Michael Noukhovitch
,
Samuel Lavoie
,
Florian Strub
,
Aaron Courville
NeurIPS 2023 poster
Readers:
Everyone
Improving Compositional Generalization using Iterated Learning and Simplicial Embeddings
Yi Ren
,
Samuel Lavoie
,
Mikhail Galkin
,
Danica J. Sutherland
,
Aaron Courville
NeurIPS 2023 poster
Readers:
Everyone
A surprisingly simple technique to control the pretraining bias for better transfer: Expand or Narrow your representation
Florian Bordes
,
Samuel Lavoie
,
Randall Balestriero
,
Nicolas Ballas
,
Pascal Vincent
CoRR 2023
Readers:
Everyone
View all 20 publications
Co-Authors
Aaron C. Courville
Aaron Courville
Adam Trischler
Adrien Bardes
Aishwarya Agrawal
Alex Fedorov
Alexander C. Li
Anas Mahmoud
Andrew Gordon Wilson
Ankit Vani
Anurag Ajay
Arjang Talattof
Asli Celikyilmaz
Bac Nguyen
Bargav Jayaraman
Candace Ross
Christos Tsirigotis
Chuan Guo
Danica J. Sutherland
Diane Bouchacourt
Faruk Ahmed
Florian Bordes
Florian Strub
Haider Al-Tahan
Hu Xu
View all 72 co-authors