Interested in retinal circuits and computations, vision and neuroscience. Researcher at the @InstVisionParis @oliviermarre@qoto.org

Paris, France
Joined September 2018
Please RT: postdoc positions open in the lab to work on a @ERC_Research -funded project on retinal circuits and computations. Don't hesitate to DM or email me for details. oliviermarre.free.fr/Postdoc…
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👁️ "Filter, Detector, Predictor: The expanding repertoire of retinal computation in vertebrates", by M.B. Manookin & F. Rieke (Jun 2026) 🔗 sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Neural networks might speak English, but they think in shapes. Understanding their rich *neural geometry* is key to understanding how they work – and to debugging and controlling them with precision. Starting today, we’re releasing a series of posts on this research agenda. 🧵
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Nice point by @TonyZador . AI is certainly a fantastic approximator, but it is unclear if it gives the level of compression necessary for understanding the brain. The question remains how much compression can we afford when trying to understand such a complex system. My take...
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...would be that there is certainly compression to be done, but as much as in the law of gravitation. See also: trialsanderrors.substack.com…
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Talking about blue brain, digital twins and the likes: The danger of building a brain from scratch: trialsanderrors.substack.com…
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New paper: Back into Plato’s Cave Are vision and language models converging to the same representation of reality? The Platonic Representation Hypothesis says yes. BUT we find the evidence for this is more fragile than it looks. Project page: akoepke.github.io/cave_umwel… 1/9
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In this short piece we make the case for latent equivariant operators methods✨, an alternative to classical and equivariant nets that shows promise for out-of-distrib classif. We lay out the challenges ahead for scaling these methods to larger datasets 🧐 follow @minhinhtrng 👀
Modern vision models lacks robustness when objects appear in unusual poses. @StphTphsn1 and I study latent equivariant operators as a remedy and discuss caveats of these operators. Below is a summary of the work, accepted at the GRaM Workshop at ICLR @iclr_conf 2026. 🧵
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Modern vision models lacks robustness when objects appear in unusual poses. @StphTphsn1 and I study latent equivariant operators as a remedy and discuss caveats of these operators. Below is a summary of the work, accepted at the GRaM Workshop at ICLR @iclr_conf 2026. 🧵
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Focus on the black cross and the red dots will appear to follow waves even though they move straight.
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How does our visual system process natural scenes ? How can we approach this question ? Happy to share this recent review written with Samuele Virgili where we ask these questions at the level of the retina. sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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A citation from 1744 (no typo !).
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Why do video models handle motion so poorly? It might be lack of motion equivariance. Very excited to introduce: Flow Equivariant RNNs (FERNNs), the first sequence models to respect symmetries over time. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2507.14793 Blog: kempnerinstitute.harvard.edu… 1/🧵
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