Zacharie Bugaud

Research Engineer, Astera Institute

Joined

January 2026

Names

Zacharie Bugaud (Preferred)

Emails

****@gmail.com (Confirmed)

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****@astera.org (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

Research Engineer

Astera Institute (astera.org)

2025 – 2026

Research Engineer

INRIA (inria.fr)

2024 – 2025

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

Coworker

2026 – Present

Coworker

2025 – Present

Coworker

2024 – 2025

Coworker

Pierre-Yves Oudeyer

2024 – 2025

Coworker

2022 – 2022

Expertise

Continual learning

2024 – 2026

Publications

Position Augmentation: Reducing RoPE Extrapolation Cliffs via Random Position Scaling During Training
Zacharie Bugaud
- ICML 2026 FoGen Workshop Poster
- Readers: Everyone
How Training Window Length Shapes Neural Language Model Weights
Zacharie Bugaud
- Mech Interp Workshop ICML 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Functional Task Networks: Cortex-Inspired Spatial Parameter Isolation for Continual Learning
Kevin L McKee, Yicong Zheng, Zacharie Bugaud, Thomas Miconi
- CATS@ICML26 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
A Cognitive Battery for Foundation Models: Theory-Grounded Benchmarks for Attention, Learning, Metacognition, Executive Function, and Social Cognition
Zacharie Bugaud
- CTB@ICML 2026
- Readers: Everyone
Combining Theory and Benchmarks for Length Generalisation: Formal Certificates Meet Large-Scale Evaluation
Zacharie Bugaud
- CTB@ICML 2026
- Readers: Everyone
Unpredictable Safety: Domain-Dependent Compliance and the Transparency Gap in Open-Weight LLMs
Zacharie Bugaud
- XTAI-2026 Oral
- Readers: Everyone
Hidden Clones: Exposing and Fixing Family Bias in Vision-Language Model Ensembles
Zacharie Bugaud
- VidLLMs 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Hidden Clones: Exposing and Fixing Family Bias in Vision-Language Model Ensembles
Zacharie Bugaud
- VisCon 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone

Co-Authors