📘 Publications
🧠 > Papers
- Adversarial Robustness by Design through Analog Computing and Synthetic Gradients. Alessandro Cappeli*, Ruben Ohana*, Julien Launay, Laurent Meunier, Iacopo Poli, Florent Krzakala. arXiv (upcoming), 2020.
- Direct Feedback Alignment Scales to Modern Deep Learning Tasks and Architectures. Julien Launay, Iacopo Poli, François Boniface, Florent Krzakala. NeurIPS (poster), 2020. GitHub, Twitter.
- Hardware Beyond Backpropagation: a Photonic Co-Processor for Direct Feedback Alignment. Julien Launay, Iacopo Poli, Kilian Müller, Gustave Pariente, Igor Carron, Laurent Daudet, Florent Krzakala, Sylvain Gigan. NeurIPS Beyond Backpropagation (oral), 2020.
- Ignorance is Bliss: Adversarial Robustness by Design through Analog Computing and Synaptic Asymmetry. Alessandro Cappelli, Ruben Ohana, Julien Launay, Iacopo Poli, Florent Krzakala. NeurIPS Beyond Backpropagation (poster), 2020.
- Light-in-the-loop: Using a Photonics Co-Processor for Scalable Training of Neural Networks. Julien Launay, Iacopo Poli, Killian Müller, Igor Carron, Laurent Daudet, Florent Krzakala, Sylvain Gigan. Hot Chips (poster), 2020.
- Computer Vision and Feedback Alignment Methods. Julien Launay, Iacopo Poli, Florent Krzakala. NAISys (poster), 2020.
- Principled Training of Neural Networks with Direct Feedback Alignment. Julien Launay, Iacopo Poli, Florent Krzakala. arXiv pre-print, 2019. GitHub.
- Analysis of Factors Affecting the Performance of BIPV Panels. Julien Launay, Eric W.M. Lee, Rachid Bennacer, Richard K.K. Yuen. ICOME (oral), and European Physical Journal Applied Physics, 2018.
⚖️ > Patents
- Method and System for Distributed Training Using Synthetic Gradients. Julien Launay, Iacopo Poli, Kilian Müller, Gustave Pariente, Igor Carron, Laurent Daudet. US Patent 17/117,925, 2020 (pending).
- Method and System for Machine Learning Using Optical Data. Iacopo Poli, Julien Launay, Kilian Müller, Gustave Pariente, Igor Carron, Laurent Daudet. US Patent 16/815,822, 2020 (pending).
🔗 > Blogposts
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- LightOn's Summer Series #1, #2, and #3, on LightOn's Medium blog.
🎓 > Educational resources
- Les glissements de terrain, modélisation et prévision. (Landslides: modeling and prediction). Éduscol, 2017.
📖 > Books
- Aventure, survie et création: le Guide Minecraft. (Adventure, Survival, and Creation: a Minecraft Guide). Sold 20,000 copies. Pearson, 2015.