• May 2019: Recovery and convergence rate of the Frank-Wolfe Algorithm for the m-EXACT-SPARSE Problem, with F. Cherfaoui, V. Emiya and S. Anthoine. To appear in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory.
• Mar. 2019: Learning Rich Event Representations and Interactions for Temporal Relation Classification, at ESANN 2019, paper coming soon.
• Nov. 2018: Dependency-dependent Bounds for Sums of Dependent Random Variables, with Christoph H. Lampert and Alexander Zimin. Technical report.
• Oct. 2017: Greedy methods, randomization approaches and multi-arm bandit algorithms for efficient sparsity-constrained optimization, IEEE Trans. Neural Netw. Learning Syst. 28(11): 2789-2802(2017), with A. Rakotomamonjy and S. Koço, published on IEEE*Xplore (accepted sept. 2016).
• A few videos:
  • Research Day 2017 @ECM
  • JDev 2017
  • Paper@ICML 2015 (see this VideoLectures page)
  • 13 minutes Marseille 2013
  • Bootcamp 2010

• Since Sept. 2018: happy part-time researcher at Criteo.
• Since Oct. 2016: member of IUF (one day, I’ll be able to smile to my computer’s camera and people won’t be afraid)
• Sept. 1, 2015 - Dec. 31st, 2017: director of LIF (Fundamental Computer Science laboratory – Laboratoire d'Informatique Fondamentale de Marseille). See here for the “official” nomination. Was nice!

• Since Sept. 1, 2011: full professor in Computer Science at Aix-Marseille Université (formely split in Aix-Marseille I, II and III).
• From Sept. 1, 2004 to Aug. 31, 2011: Assistant Professor in Computer Science at University Provence/Aix-Marseille I.

• 2010 – 2015: Fortunate founder and head of QARMA
• 2012 – 2016: PI of the ANR-funded project Greta (GREdiness: Theory and Algorithms).
• 2011 – 2015: head of the Master of Computer Science for Research.

I’m interested in various machine learning problems such as, learning from noisy data, semi-supervised learning, active learning, kernel methods, chemoinformatics, from both the practical and theoretical viewpoints.

Keywords: statistical learning theory, kernel methods, noisy distributions.
Publications: check out my Google Scholar page.
Page of our group on Signal Processing and Machine Learning: 2010-present, before.

• Snail mail:
  • Laboratoire d’Informatique et Systèmes
  • Parc Scientifique et Technologique de Luminy
  • 163, avenue de Luminy - Case 901
  • F-13288 Marseille Cedex 9
• Office: Garden@BU Building (not an official name)
• Phone: : +33 (0)4 86 09 06 71
• Email: firstname.lastname[at]lif.univ-mrs.fr
• Social networks: LinkedIn, Viadeo, https://twitter.com/LivaRalaivola