2026
Quantifying Overclaiming Propensity in Frontier LLM Agents
↗ Nolan Smyth*Yorguin-Jose Mantilla-Ramos*Pascal Jr Tikeng Notsawo†Saskia Helbling†Alberto Tosato†Mohamed Amine MerzoukNouha DziriGauthier GidelTommaso Tosato* * Lead contribution † Core contributors
Preprint, under review
AI SafetyOverclaimingBenchmarksLLM Agents
Model Merging via Data-Free Covariance Estimation
↗ Marawan Gamal Abdel HameedDerek TamPascal Jr Tikeng NotsawoColin RaffelGuillaume Rabusseau
CATS (Continual Adaptation at Scale) Workshop, ICML, 2026 (Oral)
Conference on Language Modeling (COLM), 2026
Model MergingCovariance EstimationTransfer Learning
Grokking Finite-Dimensional Algebra
↗ Pascal Jr Tikeng NotsawoGuillaume DumasGuillaume Rabusseau
Forty-Third International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2026
GrokkingAlgebraRepresentation LearningGeneralization
2025
2024
2023
Predicting Grokking Long Before it Happens: A look into the loss landscape of models which grok
↗ Pascal Jr Tikeng NotsawoHattie ZhouMohammad PezeshkiIrina RishGuillaume Dumas
Workshop on Mathematical and Empirical Understanding of Foundation Models, ICLR, 2024
GrokkingGeneralizationLoss LandscapeFourier Analysis
2023 / Research Vector Quantization
Adaptive Discrete Communication Bottlenecks with Dynamic Vector Quantization for Heterogeneous Representational Coarseness
↗ Dianbo LiuAlex LambXu JiPascal Jr Tikeng NotsawoMike MozerYoshua BengioKenji Kawaguchi
Thirty-Seventh AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2023
Vector QuantizationDiscrete RepresentationsReinforcement LearningCommunication
2023 / Research Optimization
Stochastic Average Gradient : A Simple Empirical Investigation
↗ Pascal Jr Tikeng Notsawo
IFT6512: Stochastic Programming, Université de Montréal, 2023
OptimizationStochastic GradientConvergenceSAG