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Guillaume Couairon

I am currently a researcher at INRIA (ARCHES team) where my research focus is machine learning for weather and climate. I am especially interested in how generative models can revolutionize weather forecasting.
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Recent News

  • (Oct 2023) Presented our paper Stable Signature at ICCV 2023, also announced by Joelle Pineau on X/Twitter and on Meta’s website. Also proud to be recognized as an ICCV 2023 outstanding reviewer !

  • (Sept 2023) I started a SRP position at INRIA in the ARCHES team, working on Machine Learning for Weather and Climate.

  • (July 2023) I defended my CIFRE PhD thesis (Sorbonne Université/Meta), presentation available on Google Slides

  • (May 2023) Our work DiffEdit is now integrated into HuggingFace’s diffusers library !

  • (Apr 2023) Our work on Canopy height maps from satellite imagery (Arxiv) is now public and advertised by Mark Zuckerberg as a key application of DINOv2 (Facebook post)

Selected Publications

See Google Scholar for a complete list of my publications.

Sub‐meter resolution canopy height maps using self‐supervised learning and a vision transformer trained on Aerial and GEDI Lidar, Arxiv 2023
J. Tolan, H. Yang, B. Nosarzewski, G. Couairon, H. Vo, John Brandt, J. Spore, S. Majumdar, D. Haziza, J. Vamaraju, T. Moutakanni, P. Bojanowski, T. Johns, B. White, T. Tiecke, C. Couprie
Rewarded soups: towards Pareto‐optimality by interpolating weights fine‐tuned on diverse rewards, NeurIPS 2023
Alexandre Ramé, Guillaume Couairon, Corentin Dancette, Mustafa Shukor, J-B Gaya, Laure Soulier, Matthieu Cord
Zero‐shot spatial layout conditioning for text‐to‐image diffusion models, ICCV 2023
Guillaume Couairon, Marlène Careil, Matthieu Cord, Stéphane Lathuilière, Jakob Verbeek
The stable signature: Rooting watermarks in latent diffusion models, ICCV 2023
Pierre Fernandez, Guillaume Couairon, Hervé Jégou, Matthijs Douze, Teddy Furon
DiffEdit: Diffusion‐based semantic image editing with mask guidance, ICLR 2023 Spotlight
Guillaume Couairon, Jakob Verbeek, Holger Schwenk, Matthieu Cord
FlexIT: Towards Flexible Semantic Image Translation, CVPR 2022
Guillaume Couairon, Asya Grechka, Jakob Verbeek, Holger Schwenk, Matthieu Cord
FLAVA: A foundational language and vision alignment model, CVPR 2022
Amanpreet Singh, Ronghang Hu, Vedanuj Goswami, Guillaume Couairon, Wojciech Galuba, Marcus Rohrbach, Douwe Kiela
Efficient vision‐language pretraining with visual concepts and hierarchical alignment, BMVC 2022
Mustafa Schukor, Guillaume Couairon, Matthieu Cord

Personal Projects

  • I am a big fan of educational videos on YouTube. I have created the website YTMap which is a manually curated and organized set of videos I like most, along with a clean and distract-free interface to watch them on.
  • I am passionate about music, especially jazz/funk improvisation and electronic music composition. You can find a list of my compositions on SoundCloud