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Gael Varoquaux
13  janvier     23h00
Stepping up as probabl’s CSO to supercharge scikit-learn and its ecosystem
   Note Probabl’s get together, in falls 2025 I’m thrilled to announce that I’m stepping up as Probabl’s CSO (Chief Science Officer) to supercharge scikit-learn and its ecosystem, pursuing my dreams of tools that help go from data to impact. Scikit-learn, a central tool Scikit-learn is central ...
01  janvier     23h00
2025 highlights: AI research and code
   AI is everywhere. Can you see it here? Note Some highlights about my work in 2025: progress on tabular-learning stands out, a publication on unpacking trade-off and consequences of scale in AI, and of course progress on the open-source data-science and machine learning stack. As 2026 starts, I’m...
28  octobre     23h00
Maïc, you lived 100 years, what changed?
   At Maïc’s 100th birthday, I asked her you lived 100 years, what was the most important change for you? . She mentioned Internet . I asked, why was the Internet important to her eyes? Because this is how she kept close contact with her loved ones, sharing travels or discussing everyday ...
09  octobre     22h00
A national recognition; but science and open source are bitter victories
   I have recently been awarded France’s national order of merit, for my career, in science, in open source, and around AI. The speech that I gave carries messages important to me (French below; it flows better). Contents Speech translated to English Le texte d’origine, en Français .content p ...
08  juillet     22h00
TabICL: Pretraining the best tabular learner
   Note TabICL is a state-of-the-art tabular learner [Qu et al 2025]. The key is its very rich prior, that is baked in a pre-trained architecture -a table foundation model-, and leveraged by in-context-learning. Thanks to clever choices, it is fast and scalable, efficient even without a GPU. Contents...