Publications

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Mar 2026
Victor Morand, Mathias Vast, Basile Van Cooten, Laure Soulier, Josiane Mothe, Benjamin Piwowarski

We reproduce and compare different distillation strategies for cross-encoders across a wide range of architectures, identifying robust design choices for effective re-ranking.

Feb 2026
Mathias Vast*, Victor Morand*, Basile van Cooten, Laure Soulier, Josiane Mothe, Benjamin Piwowarski

We propose MICE (Minimal Interaction Cross-Encoders), a new architecture that achieves a 4x decrease in inference latency while maintaining high ranking effectiveness.

Oct 2025
Victor Morand, Nadi Tomeh, Josiane Mothe, Benjamin Piwowarski

We introduce ToMMeR, a lightweight model probing mention detection capabilities from early LLM layers, achieving high zero-shot recall across diverse benchmarks.

Oct 2025
Victor Morand, Josiane Mothe, Benjamin Piwowarski

We investigate how Large Language Models internally represent entities by introducing entity mention reconstruction as a novel framework for studying how LLMs encode and manipulate entities.

Oct 2024
Victor Morand, Nils MΓΌller, Ryan Weightman, Benedetto Piccoli, Alexander Keimer, Alexandre M. Bayen

We study the numerical approximation of scalar conservation laws by computational optimization of the numerical flux function in a first-order finite volume method.