Victor Quétu

AI Research Scientist at Thales cortAIx-Labs

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I am currently an AI Research Scientist at Thales cortAIx-Labs, focusing on Explainable AI (XAI), developing methods to make deep learning models more transparent, interpretable, and trustworthy for real-world deployment.

I recently completed my PhD at Télécom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris. Under the supervision of Gaël Richard and Enzo Tartaglione, my research focused on the development of efficient inference approaches for deep learning models, with the goal of enhancing computational efficiency and enabling real-world deployment.

I hold an engineering degree from École Nationale Supérieure de l’Électronique et de ses Applications. Prior to my PhD, I interned at Thales under the supervision of Serdar Şahin, where I designed and implemented deep learning algorithms to enhance the performance-complexity trade-off of the receiver in communication systems.

News

Mar 23, 2026 I successfully defended my PhD thesis entitled “From Weights to Layers: Deep Neural Network Compression for Efficient Inference”.
Jan 30, 2026 Our paper Layer Collapse Can be Induced by Unstructured Pruning got published in TMLR.
Jun 25, 2025 Our papers FOLDER: Accelerating Multi-modal Large Language Models with Enhanced Performance and LaCoOT: Layer Collapse through Optimal Transport got accepted at ICCV2025.
Apr 01, 2025 Started a research internship at IDEMIA on Vision and LLM for pedestrian detection.
Sep 09, 2024 Presented our paper The Simpler The Better: An Entropy-Based Importance Metric to Reduce Neural Networks’ Depth at ECML PKDD 2024 in Vilnius, Lithuania.
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Jul 13, 2024 Attended the ICVSS 2024 Summer School in Sicily, Italy.
Feb 20, 2024 Presented our paper DSD²: Can We Dodge Sparse Double Descent and Compress the Neural Network Worry-Free? at AAAI 2024 in Vancouver, Canada.
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Sep 11, 2023 Presented our paper Sparse Double Descent in Vision Transformers: Real or Phantom Threat? at ICIAP 2023 in Udine, Italy.
🏆 Won the Caianiello ICIAP Paper Award for young researchers.
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