Mathias Sablé-Meyer
Normalien, PhD Student in PSL/Collège de France & NeuroSpin
Present situation
Credit to Kaspar Ravel for this picture.
Starting a Ph.D under the supervision of Stanislas Dehaene at PSL/Collège de France, with a lab at NeuroSpin, CEA. Working title: “An exploration of humans’ outstanding capacity for abstraction through non representative geometry”.
Reach me on my academic email
Teaching page
Highlights of the past situation
During the course of my higher education, I was a visiting researcher for half a year in the following places:
- MIT, Cambridge US in 2018, doing program induction with Josh Tenenbaum
- École Normale Supérieure, Paris, 2017 doing linguistics with Salvador Mascarenhas
- Oxford, UK in 2014 doing theoretical computer science with Luke Ong
Master degree:
- M2 CogMaster (Cognitive Science) — ENS/EHESS/Paris Descartes
- M1 MPRI (Computer Science) — ENS/ENS Cachan/Polytechnique/Paris Diderot
Past situation
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2017-2016 — Research @ MIT with Josh Tenenbaum
“Library Learning for Neurally-Guided Bayesian Program Induction”, one paper accepted, moving toward more cognitive science stuff, ongoing.
2017-2016 — Research @ ENS with Salvador Mascarenhas
Reasoners as mini-scientists: hypothesis testing and pragmatics. Two articles in prep. from this work.
2016-2017 — M2 @ CogMaster
Internship at NeuroSpin with Stanislas Dehaene, working on behavioural research and psychophysics of structured sequences in the visual modality. Academic report bellow, there is an article in prep..
2015-2016 — Gap year @ Mediterranean Sea
A dinner at Ligia, Greece with Félicien.
There’s a french blog about it. I went sailing and climbing for a whole year with a friend.
2014-2015 — M1 @ MPRI
Internship in Oxford, UK with Luke Ong, working on semantics of meta-programming and translations from/to other paradigms withing lambda-calculus. Academic report bellow.
2013-2014 — L3 @ ENS Cachan
Internship in INRIA, Lille with Romaric Gaudel, working on machine learning and cold-start versions of the multi-armed bandit problem. Academic report bellow.
Publications
Under review
2019
- Mathias Sablé-Meyer, Salvador Mascarenhas. Assessing the role of matching bias in reasoning with disjunctions, under review. pdf, associated data and scripts, tools for the study of mSentential
Peer reviewed articles
2018
- Kevin Ellis, Lucas Morales, Mathias Sablé-Meyer, Armando Solar-Lezama, Joshua B. Tenenbaum. Library Learning for Neurally-Guided Bayesian Program Induction. NIPS 2018. Spotlight.
Talks & Seminars
- Invited speaker at the LINGUAE Seminar: “The laws of mental geometry in human and non-human primates”, 2019
- FYSSEN seminar “Foundations of mathematics in primary and pre-schools”, 2019
- Invited young researcher at Centre l’Oubradou, “Where Art, Science & Education connect”, 2018
- LPPRD seminar, joint talk with Salvador Mascarenhas, invited by Philip Koralis, 2018, handout.
- The Experimental Philosophy Group, 2017, handout
Academic Reports
Structural compression of visual input?
- Visual Sequence Primitives in Humans, 2017, internship report from my work in the NeuroSyntax team of the UniCog lab in NeuroSpin, under the supervision of Stanislas Dehaene.
- Toward an unstaging translation for an environment classifier based multi-staged language, 2015, internship report from work supervised by Luke Ong in Oxford’s Computer Science Department.
- Algorithmes de recommandation séquentielle, 2014, internship report with INRIA Lille’s team SequeL, supervised by Romaric Gaudel.
- I had fun with Jacquin’s algorithm for fractal compression of images in 2013, you can find some of that here
Other occupations of my time
Climbing
Whenever I can, here and there, cliffs, rocks, indoor, boulder or just trees.
Tinkering
Playing around breaking stuff to understand how it works. A few selected examples:
- Project Ocarust or playing with FFIs and Ocaml/Rust
- Messing with DeepL, just for fun.
- Messing with GPT-2 117M, again.
Misc & Non Serious
Spare time electronic stuff.
- I quite enjoy electronics from time to time. The documentation (non serious!) for a small project I realised during my time at NeuroSpin — reverse engineer a food distribution system to interface it with a computer through USB.
- A course from CogMaster was validated through a mini thesis. It’s about Mathematical Intuitions and Monsters (in French).
- Every once in a while I put something in this modest blog.
- More of the background of this page?