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Download PDF version hereClément DUMAS
Paris, France
✉ clement.dumas@ens-paris-saclay.fr
📄 linkedin/Clément Dumas | github.com/Butanium | Personal page
Education 📚
- 2024-2025: Computer Science research Master MVA (Mathematics, Vision, Learning) at ENS Paris-Saclay. The ENS is a selective institution that trains teachers and researchers
- 2023-2024: Computer Science research Master MPRI at ENS Paris-Saclay.
- 2022-2023: Double Bachelor's degree in Computer Science at ENS Paris-Saclay
- 2020-2022: Completed "classes préparatoires", an intensive two-year programme in the sciences with 12 hours of math per week, preparing for the competitive entrance exams to the ENS
Skills 💻
- Proficient with functional (
OCaml), imperative (Python) and object-oriented (Java) languages - Some experience with:
Rust,CUDA,C++,C,C#,JavaScript,x86_64 Assembly,Scala,Haskell,Lisp - Proficient in PyTorch, Stable Baselines 3, LaTeX, SLURM and Git
- Strong mathematical and theoretical computer science background
Research and projects 🖱️
- July 2024: Attended the Human-aligned AI Summer School
- July 2024: Main author of How do Llamas process multilingual text? A latent exploration through activation patching, spotlight at ICML 2024 mechanistic interpretability workshop
- Since April 2024: Research internship with Robert West and Chris Wendler on mechanistically understanding the multilingual capabilities of large language models following their Do Llamas Work in English? paper
- January 2024: Explored the emergence of XOR features in Large Language Models and the RAX hypothesis developed by Sam Marks. See our fork of the repository
- October 2023 - May 2024: Supervised Program for Alignment Research (SPAR) under the supervision of Walter Laurito. We tried to apply Contrast-Consistent Search to Reinforcement Learning models
- Summer 2023: Two months research internship with Jobst Heitzig on Aspiration-Based Q-Learning. See our LessWrong post and our Stable Baselines 3 fork
- 2022-2023: Participated in “Séminaire Turing”, an AI alignment reading group at ENS Paris-Saclay
- December 2022: Participated in the AI testing hackathon organized by Esben Kran. Our submission about Trojans in transformers was ranked #4
- November 2022: Participated in the ML4G, a one-week French AI alignment camp organized by Effisciences
- November 2022: Participated in the Interpretability hackathon organized by Esben Kran featuring Neel Nanda
- October 2022: Participated in the AI alignment Hackathon organized by EffiSciences about the out of distribution and underspecification problems
- 2021-2022: Implemented a Monte-Carlo tree search for the travelling salesman problem which expand this paper to include local search in playouts
- 2021-2022: Created various heuristics for 6 CodinGame multiplayer games in Python and OCaml
Hobbies ♟️
- Programming: personal projects and competitions. Favourite topics/paradigms: AI and ML, alignment, MCTS, genetic algorithm, combinatorial optimization, artificial life simulation
- Behavioural biology (thanks to the online course Human Behavioural Biology, by Robert Sapolsky)
- Improv theater, escape games, board games, table-top and live action role-playing games
- Reading (particularly heroic fantasy and science fiction)
- Sport - badminton and tennis competitions, volleyball, football, team sports in general