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Manon Verbockhaven
I am a postdoctoral fellow at ENS Lyon in the Ockham team.

  • Papers

  • Rank and computation of the pathlifting Jacobian of a DAG ReLU network (2026) paper
  • Growth strategies for arbitrary DAG neural architectures (ESANN 2025) paper.
  • Growing TINY Networks: Spotting Expressivity Bottleneck and Fixing Them Optimally (TMLR 2024) paper, video.
  • ObjectivAIze: Measuring Performance and Biases in Augmented Business Decision Systems (INTERACT 2021) paper.

  • Talks

  • Workshop on Metamodels for Industrial Applications 2025 : Expressivity Bottlenecks in Neural Networks.
  • ESI 2025 (Erwin Schrödinger International Institute for Mathematics and Physics) : growing TINY networks with functional gradient and comparison with two other Neural Architecture Search methods (video, slides).
  • GSI 2023, Growing TINY network, spotting expressivity bottlenecks (video).
  • JRAF 2022 : Neural Network Architecture Growth using Tangent Space.

  • Teaching

  • MATh.en.JEANS 2027 subject.
  • MATh.en.JEANS 2024 subject.
  • MATh.en.JEANS 2023 subject.

  • Thesis

  • Manuscript.
  • Slides.