Fake news sites: generative AI left unckecked

In a recent interview with Alexandre Boero from Clubic we discuss how recent technologies rendered possible a growing network of fake online media sites and journalists entirely generated by AI, designed to appear credible and manipulate audiences and advertisers, raising serious concerns about misinformation and the erosion of trust in digital content.

 

« Physics Informed Neural Networks for coupled radiation transport equations » at CM3P 2025 conference

This joint work with Laetitia LAGUZET has been presented at the 5th Computational Methods for Multi-scale, Multi-uncertainty and Multi-physics Problems Conference held in Porto, 1-4 July 2025.

Slides: HERE.

Abstract Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) are a type of neural network designed to incorporate physical laws directly into their learning process. These networks can model and predict solutions for complex physical systems, even with limited or incomplete data, often using a mathematical formulation of a state equation supplemented with other information.
Introduced by Raissi et al. (2019), PINNs find applications in fields like physics, engineering, and fluid mechanics, particularly for solving partial differential equations (PDEs) and other dynamic systems. In this contribution we explore a modification of PINNs to multi-physics numerical simulation involving radiation transport equations; these equations describe the propagation of a Marshak-type wave in a temperature dependent opaque medium and is considered a good benchmark for difficult multi-regime computations.

« Transformer for Time Series: An Application to the S&P500 » at FICC 2025

This joint work with Pierre Brugière has been presented at the at the 8th Future of Information and Communication Conference 2025 held in Berlin, 28-29 April 2025.

Talk materials:

Abstract : The transformer models have been extensively used with good results in a wide area of machine learning applications including Large Language Models and image generation. Here, we inquire on the applicability of this approach to financial time series. We first describe the dataset construction for two prototypical situations: a mean reverting synthetic Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process on one hand and real S&P500 data on the other hand. Then, we present in detail the proposed Transformer architecture and finally we discuss some encouraging results. For the synthetic data we predict rather accuratly the next move, and for the S&P500 we get some interesting results related to quadratic variation and volatility prediction.

Interview with radio « France Culture » on the ethics of generative AI

A short interview with Celine Loozen from ‘France Culture’ radio station within a radio program concerning AI and GAFAM ethics.

Link for the full radio broadcast

Interview with Celine Loozen : here (local version if necessary here)

« Reinforcement learning in finance: online portfolio allocation and policy gradient approaches, the Onflow algorithm », NANMATH nov 2023

This is a talk presented at Nanmath conference held Nov 6-9 2023 at ICTP, Cluj..

Talk materials (click to open or download): the Slides of the presentation, the ArXiv preprint and the Youtube VIDEO.

« Reinforcement learning in finance: portfolio allocation, value functions and policy gradients flows », ACDSDE conference sept 2023

This is a talk presented at ACDSDE conference held Sept 28-30 2023 at the Romanian Academy (Iasi station), Octav Mayer Institute of mathematics.

Talk materials: the slides of the presentation.