Paper Club
Once a month, a frontier researcher walks us through the work behind the headlines: the recipe, the failure modes, the open questions. Part reading group, part research archive. Browse the editions, then come argue about the next one.
The sixth Unaite Paper Club with Renu Singh (Google DeepMind, climate modelling). A look at advances in diffusion models for probabilistic weather and climate prediction, daily-scale accuracy while accounting for multi-decade trends, around the ArchesWeather and ArchesWeatherGen models. Followed by a cocktail.
The fifth Unaite Paper Club with Emmanuel Ameisen (Anthropic), on the interpretability of language models, the science of understanding the internal structure of large models like Claude. Recommended reading: the work of Anthropic's interpretability team (attribution graphs, text-length estimation, and more).
The fourth Unaite Paper Club, in partnership with Meta FAIR, at Neon Noir. Stéphane d'Ascoli presents his work at the intersection of neuroscience and deep learning: TRIBE v2, a predictive foundation model of human brain activity, a "digital twin" of the brain that predicts its responses to any image, sound or text, at 70× the resolution of comparable models. 84 attendees.
The third Unaite Paper Club with Quentin Garrido (Meta FAIR), on world models and learning expressive latent spaces from video. A discussion of V-JEPA 2 (a self-supervised video encoder), intuitive physics understanding, and Latent Action World Models learned from action-free video, with applications in robotics and navigation.
The second Unaite Paper Club, with Oriane Siméoni from Meta's DINO team. The seminar explores the core ideas of DINOv3: self-supervised learning to represent images and videos efficiently without annotated data, with technical insights and open research directions. Followed by a cocktail. 75 attendees.
The inaugural Unaite Paper Club, with Hugo Touvron from Meta FAIR's Llama team. The talk traces the evolution from the original Llama paper to Llama 4: how Meta's researchers turned the Transformer architecture into one of the most consequential open-weights LLMs, insights into training strategies, design choices and the discovery process. Followed by a cocktail.