Youssef Mroueh

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Principal Research Scientist

Bio

Youssef Mroueh is a Principal Research Scientist in IBM since April 2015. He received his PhD in computer science in February 2015 from MIT, CSAIL, where he was advised by Professor Tomaso Poggio.

In 2011, he obtained his engineering diploma from Ecole Polytechnique Paris France, and a master of science in Applied Maths from Ecole des Mines de Paris.

He is interested in Deep Learning, Machine Learning, Optimal transport, multimodal learning, Statistical Learning Theory, Computer Vision and Artificial Intelligence.

Publications

KL-Regularized RLHF with Multiple Reference Models: Exact Solutions and Sample Complexity
- - Gholamali Aminian
  - Amir R Asadi
  - et al.
- 2025
- NeurIPS 2025
Large Language Models can Become Strong Self-Detoxifiers
- - Irene Ko
  - Pin-Yu Chen
  - et al.
- 2025
- ICLR 2025
Multivariate Stochastic Dominance via Optimal Transport and Applications to Models Benchmarking
- - Gabriel Rioux
  - Apoorva Nitsure
  - et al.
- 2024
- NeurIPS 2024
Distributional Preference Alignment of LLMs via Optimal Transport
- - Igor Melnyk
  - Youssef Mroueh
  - et al.
- 2024
- NeurIPS 2024
Learning to Optimize Molecules with a Chemical Language Model
- - Jerret Ross
  - Samuel Hoffman
  - et al.
- 2024
- NeurIPS 2024
GROMOV–WASSERSTEIN DISTANCES: ENTROPIC REGULARIZATION, DUALITY AND SAMPLE COMPLEXITY
- - Zhengxin Zhang
  - Ziv Goldfeld
  - et al.
- 2024
- Annals of Statistics
Risk Aware Benchmarking of Large Language Models
- - Apoorva Nitsure
  - Youssef Mroueh
  - et al.
- 2024
- ICML 2024
Effective Dynamics of Generative Adversarial Networks
- - Shenshen Wang
  - Steven Durr
  - et al.
- 2024
- APS March Meeting 2024
Auditing and Generating Synthetic Data With Controllable Trust Trade-Offs
- - Brian Belgodere
  - Pierre Dognin
  - et al.
- 2024
- IEEE JESTCS
Towards a Statistical Theory of Learning to Learn In-context with Transformers
- - Youssef Mroueh
- 2023
- NeurIPS 2023

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Blog posts

An AI foundation model that learns the grammar of molecules
News
Payel Das, Youssef Mroueh, Inkit Padhi, Vijil Chenthamarakshan, Jerret Ross, and Brian Belgodere
25 Jan 2023
AI boosts the discovery of metamaterials vital for next-gen gadgets
Research
Youssef Mroueh, Karthikeyan Shanmugam, and Payel Das
20 May 2021
10 minute read
Image captioning as an assistive technology
News
Youssef Mroueh
23 Jul 2020
5 minute read

Top collaborators

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Mattia Rigotti

Mattia Rigotti

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Payel Das

Payel Das

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Pin-Yu Chen

Pin-Yu Chen

Principal Research Scientist and Manager; Chief Scientist, RPI-IBM AI Research Collaboration

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Samuel Hoffman

Samuel Hoffman

Research Software Engineer